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Radeon350@yahoo.com - 25 Jan 2005 01:40 GMT

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/01/24/news_6117016.html

Sega officially out of the sports game

The Japanese publisher confirms it has sold off Visual Concepts and its
Kush subsidiary for a bargain price of $24 million.
When Sega entered into an agreement with Take-Two Interactive to
copublish its line of ESPN sports games last year, many industry
watchers suspected the publisher was planning to sell off its internal
sports studio, Visual Concepts. Those suspicions were confirmed just
before Christmas when it was revealed that part of the codistribution
deal allowed Take-Two to buy Visual Concepts, should it choose to do
so.

Today, it appears the publisher has chosen to do just that. Following
this morning's announcement that Take-Two had secured exclusive
third-party publishing rights from the Major League Baseball Players'
Association, Sega confirmed to GameSpot that it is selling Visual
Concepts to Take-Two.

According to sources, Sega parted with the critically esteemed
developer of ESPN NFL 2K5 and ESPN NBA 2K5 for just $24 million. That
very low-sounding price is likely due to Electronic Arts' impending
monopoly of NFL game rights and its 15-year exclusivity deal with ESPN,
whose high-profile brand name will no longer give Visual Concepts'
games instant recognition.

Though the exact terms of the deal were not disclosed, Take-Two will
become the sole owner of Visual Concepts. It will also own VC's Kush
Games subsidiary, which developed ESPN NHL 2K5 and ESPN Major League
Baseball 2K5. Presumably, the studio will also create Take-Two's
upcoming pro baseball game.

GameSpot will have more information on this story as it becomes
available

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benstylus - 25 Jan 2005 03:36 GMT

Looks like comcast finally shut off Xenon's access, so he/she's going
through google now.

Now commencing forwarding of these irrelevant crossposts to
groups-abuse@google.com - then adding this new address to my killfile.

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Radeon350@yahoo.com - 25 Jan 2005 17:43 GMT

> Looks like comcast finally shut off Xenon's access, so he/she's going

> through google now.
>
> Now commencing forwarding of these irrelevant crossposts to
> groups-abuse@google.com - then adding this new address to my killfile.

wrong a.shole.

i was simply posting from google since it was easier at the moment.
take your idiocy and shove it.

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Kendrick Kerwin Chua - 25 Jan 2005 23:45 GMT

>> Looks like comcast finally shut off Xenon's access, so he/she's going
>
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>i was simply posting from google since it was easier at the moment.
>take your idiocy and shove it.

I'm gonna give this the old college try...

Radeon, can I politely ask a favor, please? I'd personally appreciate it
if you would refrain from personal attacks against other posters on Usenet
newsgroups. Not only is this against the charters of most rec.* and alt.*
groups, but it generally does not add to your credibility or your
legitimacy as a provider of news information. You're free to respond to
praise or to criticism any way you like, but I believe that polite
disagreement will do more good than hostility and profanity.

That's just my opinion, and you're free to disagree. But I would be more
inclined to read and enjoy your posts if you practiced a little restraint
and treated others with more respect. Please think about it.

-KKC, who does this sort of thing about once a month.

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BelPowerslave - 26 Jan 2005 00:11 GMT

> >> Looks like comcast finally shut off Xenon's access, so he/she's going
> >
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> >i was simply posting from google since it was easier at the moment.
> >take your idiocy and shove it.

I love how Radeon/Xenon/j.rkoff/Cygnus/etc. has the nerve to attack *anyone*
when he's the one constantly being the a.s. Of course, I guess this gives
momma's little boy more of the attention he so badly needs...

Bel

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benstylus - 26 Jan 2005 01:04 GMT

In article <1106675030.678083.94250@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
<Radeon350@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>Looks like comcast finally shut off Xenon's access, so he/she's going
>>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>>
>>wrong a.shole.

Nope, I'm pretty sure I'm reporting the right one.

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Joe and Liz - 25 Jan 2005 10:51 GMT

Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. has signed an
exclusive seven-year licensing deal with the union representing Major League
Baseball players, the union said Monday.

The Major League Baseball Players Association said the deal makes Take-Two
the only independent publisher authorized by the union to produce baseball
video games for current- and next-generation console and handheld platforms.
But game console manufacturers would still have the right to produce their
own baseball titles, the union said, and Take-Two rival Electronic Arts Inc.
said it was looking into the possibility of a publisher tying up with a
hardware maker on a baseball game.

The Take-Two deal with the players union starts with the 2006 season,
although it was not clear whether the game developer had a licensing
relationship with Major League Baseball itself for that season and beyond. A
spokesman for the league was not immediately available to comment.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6862138/

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