EA Holding AB Changes Condition of Its Offer to the Shareholders of Digital Illusions (thanks Frans) has what seems to be a follow-up on reports that EA's bid to acquire Swedish developer Digital Illusions CE (DICE) would be rejected (story). The story reports the acceptance period for the original offer has expired without EA getting their targeted percentage of the outstanding DICE stock, resulting in a change to the offer:

As a result, the offer has not yet been accepted to such an extent that EA has become the owner of more than 90% of the total number of shares representing more than 90 percent of the votes in DICE, which was a condition for the implementation for the offer.

EA today changes the condition above and conditions the offer upon an acceptance level through which EA would become the owner of more than 50% of the total number of shares representing more than 50% of the capital and votes in DICE after dilution upon exercise of employee warrants outstanding under the option program launched in 2002. As a consequence of this, the acceptance period is extended to January 20, 2005.