psmallSylvie Barak a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Wednesday 3 December 2008. 13:05:00/small/ppi Game on Asia /i/ppDEVELOPER OF DIGITAL games, Electronic Arts (EA) says its making a second pass at Asia’s hot online game market, flashing its cash and snapping up South Korean online game developer J2MSoft. J2M, whose titles include Ray City, Taan and Debut, will continue making its own online games, as well as.../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/27d6193/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=EA boosts eastern promise with buyoutlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/03/ea-buys-j2msoft-moves-level" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=EA boosts eastern promise with buyoutlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/03/ea-buys-j2msoft-moves-level" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853522459/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41771411/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853522459/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41771411/a2.img" border="0"//a

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