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Title: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: mojovonio on June 17, 2008, 12:28:13 PM
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SILICON KNIGHTS UP FOR SALE

We've heard Canadian-based developer silicon knights (Too Human) is up for sale - meaning that another currently exclusive Microsoft partnet might leave the fold...

Can't say I'm surprised, really.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: duckman2000 on June 17, 2008, 12:29:58 PM
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another currently exclusive Microsoft partner

Er, I thought SK had a deal with Sega?
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Fragamemnon on June 17, 2008, 12:30:57 PM
you can have a deal with a company and still be for sale-for example, see Bioware.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: WrikaWrek on June 17, 2008, 12:43:40 PM
Mass Effect isn't exclusive anymore.

Nobody said it was. Bioware had a MS deal when it was bought. That's what he's saying.

Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Grecco on June 17, 2008, 12:58:56 PM
Meh. Whose going to buy SK?
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: WrikaWrek on June 17, 2008, 01:03:26 PM
Meh. Whose going to buy SK?

If i was MS i would buy them. But that's just me.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Jabberwocky on June 17, 2008, 01:21:41 PM
So they think that Too Human is going to switch platforms again? Really? Really?

They announced it... what, 1998 for the PSX, then Nintendo bought SK and it was moved to the Cube, then SK left Nintendo and it was moved to the 360, now it's going to go back to Playstation? :lol Honestly this is worse than DNF. Make up your mind and finish your shit, Dyack.

That said, I doubt SK is going to move the project to another platform again.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: MCD on June 17, 2008, 01:22:34 PM
MS shut down FASA (a more capable studio) and you guys think they will buy SK? especially with that lawsuit still going on? not a chance.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Jabberwocky on June 17, 2008, 01:23:27 PM
Meh. Whose going to buy SK?

If i was MS i would buy them. But that's just me.

Would that make much financial sense though?

When was the last time SK released... you know, a game?

Oh yeah, in 2004 when they made a subpar MGS -remake-.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: demi on June 17, 2008, 01:27:33 PM
TTS > Original
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: WrikaWrek on June 17, 2008, 02:51:40 PM
Meh. Whose going to buy SK?

If i was MS i would buy them. But that's just me.

Would that make much financial sense though?

When was the last time SK released... you know, a game?

Oh yeah, in 2004 when they made a subpar MGS -remake-.

There was nothing subpar about MGS TTS. And wtf, when Sony buys shit houses like Guerrilla people jump for joy, but MS buying SK is like "omg wtf, piece of shit studio"?

Just like Lionhead is adapting to working completely under MS umbrella, SK would too.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Grecco on June 17, 2008, 02:59:41 PM
Meh. Whose going to buy SK?

If i was MS i would buy them. But that's just me.

So it can be another Money Sink like Rare?
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: cool breeze on June 17, 2008, 03:04:39 PM
SK is a piece of shit studio.  Guerilla is not much better (although one of them has a million seller in the past few years).

Killzone Liberation was pretty awesome and Killzone 2 is looking good, but Killzone 1 sucked and pretty much I don't know what else they did.

SK has Blood Omen and Eternal Darkness, which were both great.  Twin Snakes was also good, but it is hard to fuck that up.  I don't know about the games they made before Blood Omen.  Too Human doesn't look very good, but I don't think the past games I played of theirs were really bad.  Their biggest problem is that Dyack won't shut the hell up.  No one would be pissed about two player co-op if you didn't come out and talk about how it would have four player co-op.  The whole whining tantrum when people said his game was shit was also hilarious.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: MCD on June 17, 2008, 03:42:32 PM
it was too expensive to buy bioware and pandemic studios for mass effect, he said.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: TVC15 on June 17, 2008, 03:43:29 PM
Ugh, please MS, don't buy SK.  This would be an even dumber purchase than Rare.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 17, 2008, 03:56:47 PM
i think if evilbore scrapes together its pocket change, we could buy sk. it would be worth it just to make dyack work on a tvc/patel co-design effort like: "loliz: pantiez rape school" for the nintendo ds
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: WrikaWrek on June 17, 2008, 04:30:38 PM
Ugh, please MS, don't buy SK.  This would be an even dumber purchase than Rare.

It's thanks to RARE that they still have some exclusives coming.

lol
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Third on June 17, 2008, 04:32:55 PM
Buying SK means investing/wasting a lot of money on the Too Human trilogy.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: WrikaWrek on June 17, 2008, 04:39:33 PM
Buying SK means investing/wasting a lot of money on the Too Human trilogy.

Awesome. Too human is going to rock.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on June 17, 2008, 05:04:11 PM
i think if evilbore scrapes together its pocket change, we could buy sk. it would be worth it just to make dyack work on a tvc/patel co-design effort like: "loliz: pantiez rape school" for the nintendo ds
Drinky, never change.  :-*
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Third on June 17, 2008, 05:32:24 PM
Buying SK means investing/wasting a lot of money on the Too Human trilogy.

Awesome. Too human is going to rock.

I sure hope so. But the game footage looks like crap, too bad.

Most games who cross generation after generation turn out mediocre eventually.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on June 17, 2008, 05:35:56 PM
i think if evilbore scrapes together its pocket change, we could buy sk. it would be worth it just to make dyack work on a tvc/patel co-design effort like: "loliz: pantiez rape school" for the nintendo ds

the official name is

Rape Rape High School: Memories of 'that place' ~in summer days~

Please get it right.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on June 17, 2008, 06:26:54 PM
Oh fuck yes.

SK is a worthless studio and is the Enron of video game developers: low actual value, high perceived value.

Hostess should buy SK and pay Dyack's salary in Twinkies and Ho Hos.
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: Crushed on June 17, 2008, 06:46:54 PM
another crappy Banjo
DIAF
Title: Re: So according to this month's Game Informer, Silicon Knights is up for sale!
Post by: WrikaWrek on June 17, 2008, 07:25:10 PM
Ugh, please MS, don't buy SK.  This would be an even dumber purchase than Rare.

It's thanks to RARE that they still have some exclusives coming.

lol
What great exclusives!  I mean everyone is chomping at the bit to play another crappy Banjo and that other game they are making.

Ms will take everything they can get at this point.