Massively Multiplayer: Gaming In The New Millennium
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The monster is coming !
Run if you want to have a social life !
It would be ironic (although unlikely) if, in this TL, WOW ended up flopping and being remembered as the video game world's equivalent of the Edsel.
My idea was to make a game that mixed the ground action of Elite Force and the ship-to-ship combat of Bridge Commander. Great work Ry!
Apple made an offer to buy Sega's game division.
I imagine E3 would look like this if Steve and Reggie shared the stage...
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I personally don't mind WoW being successful in this timeline. Hopefully, the increased competition would simply make WoW not be the unstoppable juggernaut dominating the market.
Steve Jobs taking over Sega? That's a gamechanger....
Also, regarding Gundam stuff, did G Gundam ever make the leap to the states?
Also, regarding Gundam stuff, did G Gundam ever make the leap to the states?
G Gundam IIRC might not have been localize, might get a chance after Gundam Soul Sucess proved audience might be open non traditional(UC or Wing) based gundam, and it will take time till next gundam series so migth get a chance, how would fare that might come later.
G Gundam is coming to Toonami in 2004.
Oh, also, I'm hoping to cover the 2002 baseball playoffs in a bonus update this weekend. It won't be all that detailed, but I'll at least give the results of every series.
So it turns out, per the International Financial Law Review, that foreigners buying Japanese companies is indeed possible.
Well, if you can't trust random strangers on the Internet, then who can you trust?
The most logical thing that Apple will try to do seems to be what has already been hinted at: an asset sale which will prevent Apple from assuming many of the liabilities that Sega is currently saddled with though others may try different strategies.
Well, if you can't trust random strangers on the Internet, then who can you trust?
The most logical thing that Apple will try to do seems to be what has already been hinted at: an asset sale which will prevent Apple from assuming many of the liabilities that Sega is currently saddled with though others may try different strategies.
Also, this particular case may've been an exception, because SErvice GAmes inc. was originally an American company that got sold to Japanese investors, eventually being completely transferred to Japanese ownership and headquarters. @Nevermore's discovery renders it a moot point, but it could've been a stance for Apple to take if there had been any issues.
Yeah, I had considered that after posting my question last week but I thought the matter was even more legally murky so I decided not to bring it up before I got an answer over whether or not the sale to Jobs would be legal.
Can we also take a moment to summarize Sega ITTL? It started out as a slot machine company founded by World War II vets, sold to an American conglomerate headed by an Austrian immigrant where it became a arcade company, bought by a Japanese businessman, absorbed one of Japan's largest toy manufacturers, and now are poised to be owned by a partially Middle Eastern Buddhist who owns one of the world's largest and successful computer corporations.
What a storied company.
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Probably. Although the internet would have the same legitimate reasons to hate the alternate NB band.
Nickelback has already had a #1 song, so yeah, they're still pretty big ITTL.
Bollocks.
Hope NB still get kicked around harshly by both the internet and critics and be the poster boy for mediocre, misogynistic, formulaic, unoriginal, bland commerical rock though. Before this, I thought they were just another band, but seeing the blandness of their songs convinced me otherwise.
And for some reason people kept buying the records even though all the songs sounded similar to one another. Even current music today (which the internet nostalgia crowd hates with a passion IOTL) sounds more unique than NB back in 2002.
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