It seems more and more like this age of acquisitions continues to wage on with the latest installment being Square Enix taking out the money hat and trying to grab up Tecmo. I think Square Enix should stick to what they know best and continue to churn out Final Fantasy games that will keep their audiences entranced for years to come, just go finish FFXIII and FF Versusa and leave Tecmo alone. Although think of the potential… Tecmo Bowl + Final Fantasy = Tecmo Final Bowl Fantasy, where the players can use gunswords to gain yards and kick chocobos through the uprights.
Square Enix is seeking to take over troubled Ninja Gaiden developer Tecmo, offering to acquire a controlling interest by purchasing Tecmo stock at a 30 percent premium over the company’s August 28 closing price of 708 yen ($6.52).
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada said that he has been discussing the potential acquisition with recently resigned Tecmo president Yoshimi Yasuda as well as Tecmo board chairman and current president Yasuharu Kakihara since May 2008.
Tecmo’s board of directors has until September 4 to respond to the takeover offer. Square Enix said that if the developer chooses to reject the officer, it will withdraw its offer and will not seek a buyout.
This parody is hilarious in many ways and before I get various emails calling me a Gamestop hater please note this video was made by someone else, we are merely pointing out its hilarity and posting it for all to see. The internal training video for the Gunstop employees is funny as hell, “we view a person as money with hands and feet” and the discussion of pre-orders comes up, all I can do is smile. “What does M on the box stand for? M for more fun!” Good times.
With the new release of Project Gotham Racing 4 comes a slew of brand new achievements, 50 to be exact worth 1,000 points, for every red blooded achievement whore to drool over. But the one that really caught my attention was the one where you need to buy a gamer picture?!
29. Buy an Achievement - Buy the K1,000,000 gamer picture to earn this Achievement. - 20 points
Ok, Achievement points have come in all shapes and sizes, some with great honor, others with shameless promotion, but now an achievement for buying something?! This is ridiculous! You get an achievement for spending money on something worthless. It is a pretty shameless way for Microsoft to make more money off of their gamerpics by forcing someone who actually wants to get all of the gamerpoints for this game to buy something they never wanted in the first place.
::Edit:: the money isn’t real money, but in game kudos, I take the finger pointing away from MS and smile. But it still is an interesting achievement and would have been pretty interesting if MS charged real money for it.
Many arguments have been waged discussing whether achievement points add to Xbox 360 games or if they just force people to play different parts of the games they wouldn’t have normally. What can we expect next? Achievement for sending angry voice messages to your friends list, points for sending a picture of your genitals or better yet send Microsoft a bag of money get 100 points! What do you think and what crazy non-sensical achievements can you think of?
Anyone who doubts the clout that video games have on today’s consumer world need to talk to the folks at MTV. The “music” television powerhouse had just released a 2 year plan to invest half a billion, yes billion with a b, into the video game industry over the next two years reports gamedaily biz.
“As we take our brands narrow and deep to serve our targeted, niche audiences, we’re putting well over $500 million behind building our games business across all of the brands in our portfolio,” explained MTV chairman and chief executive Judy McGrath. “I’d like to see more game applications on some of our current big brands across the music group,” McGrath said, apparently referring to the potential for creating games based on the networks’ range of shows.
Long gone are the days of headbangers ball and beavis and butthead. Now we get to see spoiled teenagers flaunt their parents money or some tacky dating show. At least MTV is doing something I am interested in since they stopped showing The Head.
That rhyme was not intentional by the way. Damn it. Anyway, yahoogames reports that the UK will start a service at the UK based website, tournament.com that allows players to pay a small entrance fee in order to win various amounts of money. The entrance fees range from free for practice and $10 for buy in. The only game that is available now is Counter Strike and Half Life 2. The rationale behind this is simple:
“Gambling rewards a player based purely on luck, while Tournament.com is a service that rewards players based on their skill. They’re two very different models.”
We’re confident that [our anti-cheating software] is some of the best out there and we use a combination of different anti-cheating software developed by third parties in conjunction with our internally developed Tournament Anti-Cheat, also known as TAC.”To supplement our security, we also have admins who continuously monitor in-game play, making sure that everyone is playing fair.”
This seems to be the equivalent to the online poker craze that swept the nation a few years ago, although far more in depth. I see the only flaw being this. Sometimes luck is a good thing. There are no doubt some awesome players who will keep piling up the wins and laughing with your money. I hope the ranking system will take this into account.
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With the new release of Project Gotham Racing 4 comes a slew of brand new achievements, 50 to be exact worth 1,000 points, for every red blooded achievement whore to drool over. But the one that really caught my attention was the one where you need to buy a gamer picture?!
Anyone who doubts the clout that video games have on today’s consumer world need to talk to the folks at MTV. The “music” television powerhouse had just released a 2 year plan to invest half a billion, yes billion with a b, into the video game industry over the next two years reports 
That rhyme was not intentional by the way. Damn it. Anyway, 
