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Thu 11/04/02 at 14:13
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http://c64.reserve.co.uk/news/story.php?id=1658

Check out this latest rumour - apparently, Activision have just bought Rare. These are currently rumours, so here's your challenge - go find me some evidence! Scour news sites, find me some info! Help the News Monkey break this story to the world! Report back here and let me know if you find out anything, ANYTHING at all about this story.

Fly me pretties, fly!
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:54
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Ok i lied... I have just checked Gamesradar and they are the only one...
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:52
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Right:

1: Every Gamecube site that i haev visited:

IGN
Cube Europe
Planet Gamecube
GameSpot
Gamesradar
Gamecube Advance
Gamecube network
GC freak

Don't have anything on it so it can't be that vicious can it!

2: Starfox and Donkey Kong won't be mutliformat because they are Nintendo characters and not Rare's.
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:40
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Couldn't find any hard evidence on Activision acquiring Rareware, but did find more pointers leading to making the story very believable.

In October last year Activision acquired Treyarch Invention for around $20m, and in January this year they bought the remaining 40% of Gray Matter Interactive Studios (now they own all 100% of it) for $3.1m. Then last week they bought out Shaba Games for $9.5m. So it looks like they're on a roll, but Rareware would be the icing on the cake in terms of the games industry if the story proved to be true.
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:34
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Yep.
And it was in paper that stuck to the hot, wet kebab when cooked.

Nice.
And washed down with some Lucozade because I am tired.
And bored.
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:29
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Was it in a box that was mostly blue?
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:28
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The meat was grey.
And it had a sachet of chilli sauce.

You don't get any more man-food than gargage kebab.
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:26
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Your Honour wrote:
> Microwavable kebabs taste like s***e.

You've...tried it?
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:21
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Microwavable kebabs taste like s***e.
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:19
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A pants kebab?

What would you know anyway, only a few months ago you were saying that Rare were making a Rocky game for the PS2.

;-P
Thu 11/04/02 at 15:18
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It's all a lie.

Konami has bought Rare, Nintendo has bought Microsoft and I bought a microwaveable kebab from the garage.

It was excellent

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