You beat me to it, Damian. I just came on to post it!
I think that it’s a very good move, but it’s quite disturbing that the only way to survive for developers these days is to either merge with others or be bought out.
Bono is on the board of a venture capital fund called Elevation that tried to take over Eidos which made the Tomb Raider games who’s movie had a soundtrack that included the song “Elevation” which was performed by U2 which includes Bono.
Bono and U2 have always openly said they’re big fans of Tomb Raider, hence the soundtrack, but I think that wouldn’t be quite enough to explain a bid of many millions of pounds. :P