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    Shocked Omfg!!! Microsoft Buys Rare!!!

    17:18 UK sources indicated today that the long-rumoured Microsoft take-over move on Rare may be imminent. Insiders have now set a price of £350 million for the developer, which at the moment is owned by Nintendo to the tune of 49 percent of its stock.

    Rare refused to comment on the speculation today.

    The news is looking likely to be a jigsaw piece that slots in nicely to make a final, Rare-shaped picture. Talk is heating up today regarding an apparently huge announcement at Microsoft's X02 event in Seville later this month, which will be specifically software related. Rumour has been constant recently regarding the next Perfect Dark game heading exclusively to Xbox. See what we mean?

    More. Chatter of the Stamper brothers, founders of the developer, looking to sell up has been circulating for more than a year. It's now widely well known that Activision looked seriously at buying the outfit earlier this year, but British sources this morning hinted that Rare was simply too rich for the publisher's blood.

    Microsoft is said to have held a meeting recently with Rare in a hotel near Twycross, the developer's base. Exactly the same talk emerged when Activision was looking over the company's book.

    Even more. Rare appears to have cancelled two projects recently, removing the links to the games from the company's website. "It's simply due to updating the site," said Rare by way of explanation last month. Still "updating" then, are you boys? Apparently so.

    "There's one guy running the website here," said a Rare employee today. "He's got fairly minimal support, so he's doing all of that at the same time as doing all the instruction books.

    The games are still under development, the source added. Current speculation suggests the titles are being doctored to remove Donkey Kong, a Nintendo property, from the games.

    Obviously, there's more. When questioned on the state of Nintendo's relationship with Rare at E3 this year, Nintendo heavyweights would only say that the only Rare game being shown for GameCube was Starfox Adventures: Dinosaur planet because that was the only title coming out in this financial year. Then they said refused to say anything else. We suggest you look carefully at the huge gaps between these lines.

    While Microsoft remained unavailable for comment today, don't expect this to go away. As soon as we hear more, we'll let you know.

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    wats so good about rare? wat games did they make?
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    goldeneye and perfect dark
    the 2 best games for the n64
    cant believe u dont know about them

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    Not surprised...Microsoft buys everything.....Microsoft already bought Bungie....This is no biggie.

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    ya well sony and nintendo did the same thing when they started man
    so dont be like that
    MS buys everything blah blah blah
    so did the other companies
    its called trying to compete

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    Originally posted by Ulchie
    goldeneye and perfect dark
    the 2 best games for the n64
    cant believe u dont know about them
    We are still not getting Donkey Kong cause Nintendo owns the rights for it. Also some other characters like Kameo is owned by Nintnedo, but were made by Rare.
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    i didnt like DK
    but I did like perfect dark and goldeneye and banjo kazooie was also cool
    thats another game that rare owns the license for so no having nintendo make em put it on their system and noone elses

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    Yea, DK was a pervert. It makes the Nintendo dirtier.

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    huh???lol?? hehe

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    Good hopefully they re-release Golden Eye and Perfect dark as a Classics edition on the same disk for like 20 bucks I would buy it to play Golden eye on xbox
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    I don't get it. Is Microsoft buying Rare from Nintendo? If Nintendo owns 49% of Rare them Microsoft will have to buy 51% of Rare to have a controlling stake. There's no way in hell it would be exclusive to either system. I'm not so sure about this article.

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    nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dont want them leaving nintendo!!! ...oh well i guess i'll be okay since i have a xbox and GC and soon a ps2

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    I'd seriously love to play PD on the Xbox that would kick ass. I don't think Rare has the rights to use Goldeneye anymore but I dunno for sure. Signing off...
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    I'm elated...:o


    Not really, Golden Eye and Perfect Dark, woo hoo, Nightfire is supposed to be even better than Golden Eye, so that doesnt matter to me. Those are the only two game I'm aware of that were good, and I ddint even like Perfect Dark.

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    Ahem.

    Microsoft has NOT purchased Rare. They are in the process of negotiating a deal, but they do NOT own rare...yet.

    Thread title is a bit mis-leading.

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    Originally posted by ice_141
    Not really, Golden Eye and Perfect Dark, woo hoo, Nightfire is supposed to be even better than Golden Eye, so that doesnt matter to me.
    uhhh....nightfire better than goldeneye?!? Which of your sources said it's supposed to be better? Yeah, sounds like you've OBVIOUSLY played the other 3 bond games by EA...
    That statement's like saying Timesplitters 2 is supposed to be better than Halo....
    EA Ports? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight

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    This is good news if true. Goldeneye and PD were awsome on N64. PD would be a welcome edition to the Xbox family. With any luck in a few years, Nintendo will be strickly a Dev. for Microsofts Xbox 2.

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    I hope perfect dark comes to XBOX, its needs more FPS

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    Perfect Dark is cool cause you can have a bunch of bots, but Goldeneye sucks IMO. I hate that game.

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