The Shrine

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Wow! MS is paying over a half a billion for 49% of Rare, in comparison, Sony purchased 19% of Square recently for 124 million.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Garamond; text-align: left; '>I guess Mr. Gates really is serious about this X-Box thing...although that's quite steep for a developer whose biggest name games won't be coming with them....still, I may be buying that X-Box sooner rather than later...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Microsoft is aware they're not gonna jump to #1 with Sony in the picture, so they're on this gig that in time they'll become an even more formitable opponent that can take #1 in a few yearswith 3rd party developers loving on their shit.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>There's enough good stuff now for an Xbox...and that's not including the fact they generally get the best of the ports</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, there won't be any Donkey Kong, Starfox, Jet Force Gemini, Banjo Kazooie, or Perfect Dark (unless Nintendo sold the rights to those properties), but likely there will be games similar to them, we'll probably see a Conker title, that game rocked =)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>As far as I recall, those titles are OWNED by Nintendo. Rare can't touch those. But didn't most of its programmers leave already?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>MS used to buy companies when it was soley in the PC market. They're doing the same in the console gaming world.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Just the PD/GE007 guys as far as I know, but I think (not sure) the ones who made the orriginal BK game left soon after that project was completed, that was part of the controversy behind whether DK64 and BK2 would be good or not. Still Rare is a huge company with good developmental tools and staff</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The Conker team is still with Rare, and that is one of the best platformers ever created.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>They're trading for Monopoly properties.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Bah. DOA3 is the only good game for me, and that's not enough for me to buy a whole system.</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>I'm not so sure, you read the new Rarenet/Raretopia emails, apparently employees are leaving over this dealie. Besides, Conker might be the best platformer in your mind, but there are a lots of people who will disagree.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Garamond; text-align: left; '>Conker is also owned by Nintendo, part of the Banjo-Kazooie universe I belive...</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Garamond; text-align: left; '>Remember who you're talking to...only DoA3 has even made a slight dent in my lack of desire to own an X-Box...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Free Radical, makers of Timesplitters, is made almost exclusively of GE007 and PD guys</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>There's also a ton of people who never played it and/or never gave it a decent chance</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Gotham Racing and Halo might be the best games in their genres</div>