Bioware purchased by Microsoft? on Ferrago
offers another report from the Polygon magazine with the Half-Life 2 story from
earlier today (
story), saying : "The latest issue of Polygon
magazine is reporting an unnamed source from within Microsoft's Game Studios
publishing division as stating that Redmond will imminently announce the
finalisation of a Bioware purchase agreed. The continued rise of Microsoft
within the industry will, rumour has it, be confirmed at E3 next month."
HomeLAN Fed
has a vague response about all this from BioWare: "BioWare's upcoming Xbox
action-RPG, Jade Empire, is based on an entirely new BioWare intellectual
property and slated for a Holiday 2004 release. Microsoft is the publisher for
Jade Empire. Microsoft is a certainly a valued business partner with whom
BioWare enjoys a very positive and cooperative relationship."