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Ubisoft CEO Speaks out Against EA Move
Gamespot is reporting that Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has spoken out against EA's "hostile action". From the article: "Considering the industry practice of communicating informally about such decisions, we were disappointed, to say the very least, that EA chose not to inform us of their specific plans beforehand." Further, Voodoo Extreme is reporting that a financial report may suggest the French government is going to assist Ubisoft in staying out from under EA's thumb.
The CEO's should decide it the old fashioned way-- controllers at dawn! UBI Soft, as the target, gets to pick the game...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Maybe EA and Oracle should get together and swap takeover recipes.
Some call me Howie Feltersnatch
Why doesn't Ubisoft just send Sam Fisher to take care of EA for them? :)
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...the similarities... the Borg and EA!
Sam Fisher will infiltrate Electronic Arts headquarters under the cover of darkness. After gathering intelligence related to the hostile takeover, he will go to the roof for extraction. Alarms or civilian deaths will result in mission failure.
In other news: Today, the French government announced their unconditional surrender to EA. As of 12 noon, France is now a wholly owned subsidiary of EA
/. is a bunch of nerds at a million typewriters. It's not a political conspiracy determined to undermine your beliefs.
As opposed to USA's Microsoft Windows and extremely obese women? ;-)
Sam Fisher has the Fifth Freedom: The freedom to do whatever it takes to keep Ubisoft programmers from working 90 hours a week in an EA sweatshop.
There is a rumor that EA simply wants to get in on a new Ubisoft game. The premise of the game is that the player is the head of a French bank and collects fees from an Iraqi dictator who is supposed to be using the money in his account to pay for food and medical supplies for his people, but is really funneling it to terrorists and arms dealers.
You get bonus points for lobbying the UN to not sanction a war in Iraq so that you can keep collecting fees from the account.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041118-Having done so much with so little for so long, I now can do anything with nothing at all.
That's guaranteed to be a big seller amongst the "disgruntled husbands" demographic. ;-)
Murphy was an optimist.
in Heaven, the police are British, the lovers are Italian, the cooks are French, the engineers are German, and it's all organized by the Swiss.
In Hell, the police are German, the lovers are Swiss, the cooks are British, the engineers are French, and it's all organized by the Italians.
Wow!!! That looks like a quality pen. I wonder what the reserve is. I'm really suprised it has no bids. You should buy it!! Troll hata
I would've thought geeks would be more intelligent about these things.
You must be new here.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?