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As Epics management team heads west for the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, GamePro magazine is predicting that Microsoft will buy the fast-growing game technology firm.
Microsoft will buy Epic Games for $1 billion this summer, wrote Travis Moses, assistant editor at GamePro, in the magazines new issue.
Epic and Microsoft are practically joined at the hip already. Microsofts game publisher division paid Epic millions of dollars to develop the award-winning Gears of War in November of 2006 for the Xbox 360 platform. Gears won multiple awards and sold several million copies. The online version of the game remains among the most popular on the Xbox Live network.
The two companies will be exhibiting at the GDC side-by-side.
http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/2449264/
As Epics management team heads west for the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, GamePro magazine is predicting that Microsoft will buy the fast-growing game technology firm.
Microsoft will buy Epic Games for $1 billion this summer, wrote Travis Moses, assistant editor at GamePro, in the magazines new issue.
Epic and Microsoft are practically joined at the hip already. Microsofts game publisher division paid Epic millions of dollars to develop the award-winning Gears of War in November of 2006 for the Xbox 360 platform. Gears won multiple awards and sold several million copies. The online version of the game remains among the most popular on the Xbox Live network.
The two companies will be exhibiting at the GDC side-by-side.
http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/2449264/