Microsoft Buys Rare

Phwoar writes "Microsoft have announced their buyout of the games developer Rare. After a $375 million payoff Rare will now produce games solely for the Xbox. After Rare's recent releases for the Nintendo systems bombed, Nintendo decided to sell their 49% stake in the company last week rather than buy the company themselves. Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement." You might be reminded of Microsoft's purchase of Bungie a few years ago.

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[Anonymous Coward]

propz 2 homiez

Switch

[sfled]

Due to this announcement, I am switching from MCSE track to *nix track.

PS - MCSE Course on sale shortly-watch eBay

Re:I got this rare fp for free

[leviramsey]

Actually, you got second post.

in related news..

[Anonymous Coward]

i bought a snickers bar

Teamwork!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, bill loses $150 for each xbox sold. Also, MS nor he has over $100billion. So, if everyone in america plus a few million others *666million to be exact* purchases an XBOX, we will put MS outta business... Anyone wanna help?

DENIED

[waspleg]

2002-09-22 12:36:07 Read an Interview w/ Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative Program Manager (articles,microsoft) (rejected)

2002-09-22 12:50:08 Physicists Create Antimatter (articles,science) (rejected)

This story has been out for days on news.com. I guess boosting M$ X-BOX sales by helping their publicity w/ /.'s saavy crowd couldn't hurt .. especially after the other X-BOX story, maybe this is supposed to balance it out..

Re:Bungie is Ass

[mao che minh]

Ah-fucking-men.

Re:It'd be nice if you weren't all so stupid.

[mao che minh]

boo