Lionhead Studios In Purchase Talks? 20
Lionhead Studios, best known for the Black and White series of games, may be in acquisition talks with Microsoft and Ubisoft From the Eurogamer article: "Of the two, Microsoft has the most history with the studio - the software giant published one of Lionhead's most successful titles to date, Fable, and is believed to be working with the firm on a next-generation sequel to the game for Xbox 360. Credence is also lent to Microsoft's involvement in the deal by the close relationship Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has enjoyed with the firm and its top executives since the launch of the Xbox, with the well-known designer often appearing to sing the praises of the Xbox platform in public." Gamespot reports further on the subject, stating that while it's certainly plausible, it's not official yet.
Yeah. (Score:2)
B&W2 Mac version? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:B&W2 Mac version? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:B&W2 Mac version? (Score:2)
I heard there is a Mac version of Black and White 2 coming. Would being bought by MS kill that? Granted, it's a port by another company, but the risk remains, right?
They had a playable alpha release of Halo on the mac at macworld in 1999 before MS bought Bungie. In 2001 they released the x-box version. It was not until 2003, four years later, that Halo was finally released for the mac. That is to say, it took them four years to go from a working version to a production version on what used to be their p
Re:B&W2 Mac version? (Score:2)
I can remember as late as mid-2000 looking at demo videos of Halo at LAN parties and talking about all the upgrades some of the guys would have to make to run it. Then MS bought Bungie, Halo for XBOX was announced, and Halo for anything else went away.
Re:B&W2 Mac version? (Score:2)
Yes, then Halo for PC [fileplanet.com] came back, probably because of all the people who (like me) said "I'll buy this crap for PC but there's no way I'll play an FPS with a gamepad."
Re:B&W2 Mac version? (Score:2)
You do know Microsoft makes software for the Macintosh right?
The only risk I can think of would be if they were to port there server applications to OS X - that will never happen.
B&W 2 (Score:1)
Re:B&W 2 (Score:1)
Not sure that you're getting one.
Past history... (Score:4, Informative)
I can see through this ploy... (Score:5, Funny)