Acquisitions and Disposals

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018



Note 4.	Acquisitions and Disposals

As described in our 2016 10-K, on July 24, 2015, we entered into an agreement to sell the Slingo and social casino portion of our games business to Gaming Realms plc. Of the total transaction price of $18.0 million, $10.0 million was paid in cash at closing on August 10, 2015, $4.0 million was paid in cash in August 2016, and the remaining $4.0 million was paid in cash in December 2017, along with an additional $0.5 million payment related to an agreed-to extension of this final payment, which was originally due in August 2017. We recognized the gain related to both the 2016 and 2017 payments in Gain (loss) on sale of equity and other investments, net, on the statement of operations in 2016 and 2017.

On April 16, 2018 in order to acquire a full workforce, we purchased 100% of the shares of a small, privately-held Netherlands-based game development studio for net cash consideration of $4.2 million. All tangible and intangible assets and liabilities recognized are reported within the Games segment. As a result of our purchase price allocation, we recorded $0.1 million of identifiable intangible assets relating to an existing customer contract. We also recorded goodwill of $4.4 million, representing the intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition for accounting purposes, primarily related to the assembled workforce and expected synergies in development of our Original Stories titles. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes. We did not recognize significant revenue or loss before income taxes from this acquired business from the date of acquisition through December 31, 2018.