Report: Zynga offered $1 billion cash to acquire PopCap
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Jul 14th 2011 1:30PM
Forbes reports that Zynga once had its eyes on PopCap Games, and offered $1 billion in cash for the company. The
Forbes source says that the company would have funded the deal with a line of credit from Goldman Sachs, one of the underwriters of the
'Ville-maker's
IPO.
The Forbes report reiterates some of the details from a
TechCrunch report in June, which noted that China-based Tencent (which
owns League of Legends dev Riot Games) was also in the mix.
In the end,
PopCap Games was acquired by Electronic Arts, for $750 million and another $550 million in performance payouts.
