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stranger
09/08/09

In reply to Disney Buys Wideload Games, Lands Bungie Founder
Shit. I just enrolled at DePaul because (among other things) Seropian was teaching there. I'm guessing this mean he won't be much longer... bummer.
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D-K, Anarchist
09/08/09

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Stanley got old..

...

[ipkiss]
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Slanzinger
09/08/09

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Hmm. Disney buys Marvel, and then a games company in quick succession.

I wonder what they could be planning dot dot dot
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shouryuuken
09/08/09

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disney should buy ubisoft and not touch their game dept.. but get pixar to make movies out of beyond good and evil, rayman, red steel, and prince of persia.
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Trey
09/08/09

@shouryuuken: No mention of the Tom Clancy games? Boo.
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shouryuuken
09/08/09

@Trey: well assassins creed and splinter cell definitely came to mind.. but as pixar movies? i dont think thatd work.. maybe miramax making some live action films.. but we all know how live action video game films turn out.
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CutmanMike
09/08/09

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Disney buys Google next
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CustomFirmware
09/08/09

@CutmanMike:

There are 3 companies that can't be bought.

Google, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

But I predict Disney/Apple Merger! (Reference: Walle and all other apple products references in their movies/shows).
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shouryuuken
09/08/09

@CustomFirmware: time warner
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BritBloke916
09/08/09

@CustomFirmware: Are you suggesting that it's more difficult to buy Nintendo than, say, ExxonMobil?
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Salen
09/08/09

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Disney must be on a buying spree. "Yay, a recession, time to go buy up other entertainment businesses and bring them under our evil mouse eared umbrella."
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Outkastprince
09/08/09

@Salen: Sure, I could blame Disney but I'll also place some blame on those selling out.

I don't want to flame Disney when I know the ones getting purchased aren't unhappy and kicking a puppy over it. I'm sure their getting compensated pretty well over it.

Perhaps Disney realize how main stream gaming has become and is just playing their cards right.
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Draco_2k
09/08/09

@Salen: Recession must be like Christmas for big companies, everything is on big discount.
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Salen
09/08/09

@Draco_2k: For companies that have money, I'm sure it is. Nothing quite like buying a high value asset for cheap in a down economy when you got the money to do so. Still, at the least, maybe this means Disney games will be halfway decent. One can hope.
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Draco_2k
09/08/09

@Salen: Actually they're been pumping out some surprisingly good titles recently. PURE, for one. They also rocked the world back in SNES era, with Lion King games and whatnot...
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Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
09/08/09

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Wow, Disney seem to be buying Everyone!

Where did they get all this money from?

I mean, what recent success made them decide to go on a shopping spree?
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mrWest
09/08/09

@Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): I seriously hope you were being sarcastic...Disney have, and will continue to forever rake in the $$ from their Disney tv network and movies. The amount of crap they release is so eagerly picked up by kids its not funny. High School Music and all that shit, we may disregard it but theres a whole entire fan base out there that is supplying disney the moolah it needs.
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Maxyboy13
09/08/09

@Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): Well, Up made quite a lot of money. it made well over $200 million.

It deserved it too. That was one of Pixar's best.
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Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
09/08/09

@mrWest: Well yeah, but Marvel isn't a company you see brought every day, specially with Marvel doing well with comic films, so I would have thought it would need more money to buy than your average company. And they're still buying stuff, so is this just they've been saving it up, or has some recent success triggered this spree?
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spiderweb1986
09/08/09

@mrWest: No kidding. I can only begin to imagine how much money High School Musical and Hannah Montanna brought in (and continue to bring in), the theme parks, "Up," merchandise from older movies like Toy Story and Cars, their cable channels...

Want to revoke the original question yet?
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Jekku
09/08/09

@Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): Disney owns a lot of things. You could probably trace an adult film all the way Disney if you tried to.
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Trey
09/08/09

@spiderweb1986: Owning EPSN in itself is damn near a monopoly on sports coverage.
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Jeff Weidner
09/08/09

@Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): True, Marvel is worth quite a bit....$4 Billion to be exact. But keep in mind, these aren't cash deals (at least the Marvel deal isn't - haven't looked into the details of this latest acquisition). The Marvel deal is a mix of cash and stock, with Disney stock making up approximately 40% of the purchase price of Marvel. Plus, Marvel is, no matter how you shake it, small potatoes compared to the Disney juggernaut Marvel's sales last year only totaled $675 million. Disney's was close to $40 BILLION.
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drawp
09/08/09

@Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): lol, does there really have to be a recent success for disney to have the amount of money they have?

Ask yourself when Disney last bought anything significant pre-Marvel. The Anaheim Ducks, maybe?

Plus, Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers back the money truck up to Disney's door all the time.
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spiderweb1986
09/08/09

@Jekku: Actually, rumor has it that Eisner set up a company to do that back in the eighties.

For something with a little more proof, though, Disney owned Miramax in the 1990s - the same Miramax that released Resevoir Dogs, Clerks, Pulp Fiction, and Dogma.
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spiderweb1986
09/08/09

@drawp: "Ask yourself when Disney last bought anything significant pre-Marvel. The Anaheim Ducks, maybe?"

How about Pixar a few years ago, for $7.4 billion?
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Nexus6
09/08/09

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Bungie has never been the same since Seropian left. I'm curious to see what projects hes working on.

p.s. Stubbs is probably one of the most underrated last gen games.
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DigitalHero
09/08/09

In reply to Disney Buys Wideload Games, Lands Bungie Founder
He is the Bungie Co-Founder to be correct.
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Yossarian
09/08/09

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I wouldn't say Wideload seemed like a particularly successful company... So going to guess that this was more about Disney purchasing the people involved and throwing lots of cash at Seropian to get him locked down for a few years.

Really kind of odd that you found Bungie, and then break away to make stuff like Hail to the Chimp.

[EDIT] @coolguyface: I wonder if they picked them up to start conceptualizing Disney party games?

Seems like an obvious market they could jump into that AFAIK isn't really tapped.
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coolguyface
09/08/09

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It's Goofy time.
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