Autodesk Announces Intent to Acquire Scaleform Corporation for $36M

Autodesk, Inc.

announced today it intends to acquire Scaleform Corporation, a privately held user interface tools and middleware company, for approximately $36 million in cash. Scaleform's technology has been licensed in the development of at least 800 games across major hardware platforms: PCs, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3 (PS3), Sony Playstation Portable (

), and Nintendo Wii. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and expected to close in Autodesk's first quarter of fiscal 2012 (which ends on April 30, 2011).