[Akira]

European based gaming company Titus Interactive has announced that it has taken control of Interplay, a popular United States based publisher. Titus has owned a sizeable chunk of Interplay's stock for quite a while but has now made the leap to 51% by exchanging 336,070 convertible bonds into 6.68 million Interplay shares, taking its holding to 27.09 million shares. "This purchase raises Titus Interactive's voting rights and will enable, during the Annual General Meeting in September, a re-election of the board and a takeover of Interplay by Titus Interactive" Titus has stated. Interplay now joins Hasbro Interactive, Mattel Interactive, GT Interactive, Sierra, Interactive Magic, Accolade and a host of other American publishers to have been taken over by a European company.



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[Nephilim]

Fellow americans be warned!! The europeans are coming!!!!!!!!!

Hum, interesting, but what does this mean in the world of FS?

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[Nico]

Interplay gots the rights for everything concerning FS.
Titus? Damn it, that makes me feel older  
What's their last famous product? I can remember that 10 years ago they were amongst the bests, but now?

[Jabu]

I'd rather it was American than French  

(no offence intended)

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Jabu:
I'd rather it was American than French  

(no offence intended)

Of course, you're american. Bah, I don't care, we have blizzard, we have interplay, we won't stop on such a good track  

[Jabu]

You're only about 10000 km off  

I'm from Finland. You know, that small cold country up in northeast Europe. Except it's less cold right now, 26C earlier today.

[Styxx]

There may be hope, fellow freespacers. There may be still hope...

[The Claw]

#big foot falls from the sky and crushes everybody on this thread#
 Hohoho. I'm GOD. I'm killing me   (Bill Hicks if u r wondering...)
 Nah, hopefully there might be an FS3 in the future then... if this Titus company (or the interplay replacements) does it's research and look at which games still have enough interest to warrant a sequel, this would be a prime target  

[Akira]

Lets just hope that they have a look at Interplays assets and decide to sell some of the licenses like the freespace license. then Volition can scoop it up!  

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Cat - "Quick, lets get out of here before they bring him back!"

[Nico]

I think you're all dreaming. Titus is a company like the others. Plus they've bought Interplay, ok, but what tells you they'll interfere with Interplay's current and future projects?

[Ace]

I know who to talk about the project with now  

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[Akira]

when a company gets taken over, the company that did the take over usually goes over the company with a fine tooth comb and sells off assets it deems unnecessary etc...

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Cat - "Quick, lets get out of here before they bring him back!"

[Vertigo1]

It could be worse....atleast Sierra didn't buy em out.  Then we'd never get....you know what.

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[Itsara]

 

Originally posted by MD-2389:
It could be worse....atleast Sierra didn't buy em out.  Then we'd never get....you know what.

Good job not saying "IT"    

[Nico]

the worst case: Electronic arts lol. Talk of them about all the guys from Origin, you'll know what "hatred" means  

[Black Ace]

 

Originally posted by Itsara:
Good job not saying "IT"

  Exactly...



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*Kazan's eyes start glowing bright firey red at the mentioning of Electronic Art's take over of Origin*

[The Claw]

That's the worst case of Pinkeye I've seen in a while  

[NeoHunter]

 

Originally posted by Kazan:
*Kazan's eyes start glowing bright firey red at the mentioning of Electronic Art's take over of Origin*

Somebody's been takinig too much of a new kind of the Spice Melange?   The type that turns eyes into red and not blue?


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Not to mention a FREDder!

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Itsara:
Good job not saying "IT"    

Heheh, I agree too   This is perfect evidence that the average HLP'er is smarter than the average Freespacer... *looks in direction of VBB*