Brad doesn't need to acquire other game franchises.  He's too busy founding whole new game studios every time he gets bored.  
 
Which makes me even more jealous of Brad's life.  I want to have millions of dollars that I can use to found new game studios.  I want to be like "Hey, I'm working on a strategy game, so lets call in some famous strategy game designers to help out, yea, get Soren Johnson and Jon Shafer in a meeting and throw wads of cash at them until they come help me at my game.  And if they do a good job, lets help them create their own game studio.  Oh, and I feel like honey so I'm going to raise some mother fucking bees."  That sounds pretty sweet, although the Lord Xia version might be a bit different.
"Fuck honey, I like cheeseburgers so I am raising some mother fucking Cattle, I'm raising my own beef for Kobe burgers.  God damn these burgers are good, lets make a game about these great burgers!  Yes, god damn it, I want a game made about these delicious ass Kobe burgers I make.  What's Brian Reynolds doing?  Give him a few million and his own studio and make me a god damn game about my Kobe burger!"