Do you know this guy, Lio?

Nathan Brick Artist?

Here you go, Lio. That wonderful sword is now in my favorite game thanks to the magic of NetImmerse and 3D Studio!

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Knaa'mean?

Legend of the Red Dragon was fun - getting up and playing at 6:30AM so I could get my turn in before everyone else's. Hippocampus and all that.

I completed the first class of my last semester today - 1 down, 4 to go. Not bad at all. Things are going well.

S390r

No!

Game's Over: Troubled Sega Agrees to Merge With Sammy

By KEN BELSON

TOKYO, Feb. 13 The Sega Corporation, the embattled video game maker, said today that it would merge with the Sammy Corporation, a leading manufacturer of pachinko gaming machines.

The deal, which is expected to be completed on Oct. 1, ends years of speculation about one of the oldest names in the game software industry. Sega, which also slashed its profit forecast by 90 percent, has struggled to compete with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, which all make high-powered video game consoles.

Microsoft has been looking for partners to make software for its X-Box console and was thought to be interested in forming an alliance with Sega.

By combining forces with Sammy, though, Sega hopes to concentrate on its software for game arcades. Most pachinko machines are now driven by computer chips that determine the game's winnings. Sammy will also be able to expand beyond the pachinko industry, where sales have declined 10 percent since 1995, and bolster its own operations making software for home video games.

The companies hope to "make full use of our synergies developing technology in the amusement and consumer arenas and combining Sammy's rapid growth with Sega's brand name," Sammy's president, Hajime Satomi, said in a statement.

The new company will have combined sales of 371 billion yen ($3.1 billion) and employ 1,750 workers.

Sega, though, will take a back seat to Sammy. Mr. Satomi will lead the new company, even though Sammy's stock market value is about 20 percent smaller than Sega's. Sammy's sales have more than tripled in the last three years while Sega's plunged 40 percent.

Sega, which has lost money for the last five years, also slashed its profit forecast for the fiscal year that ends on March 31. The company now expects to make just 500 million yen ($4.2 million), 90 percent below its earlier estimate. It trimmed its sales forecast 2.5 percent as well.

Sega, an early pioneer in the home video industry, headed for trouble in the mid-1990's after Sony introduced its PlayStation console. The game was an instant hit and Sony has sold 50 million units of its follow up version, PlayStation 2. Nintendo, too, has cashed in on its GameCube console and portable GameBoys.

Trying to keep up, Sega spent more to develop new games and also expanded its amusement operations. But saddled with growing debts of nearly $3 billion, the company started ditching operations. In 2001, Sega ended production of its DreamCast game console to concentrate more on software.

Debts were cut, but sales plunged. Worse, consumers who bought the DreamCast were left without a new supply of games. While Sega still produces popular games like Sonic the Hedgehog, it must now compete head on with stronger players like the Konami Corporation and the Square Company.

"Once they abandoned their game platform, they became a video game producer like everyone else," said Ortwin Gierhake, a software analyst at West LB Securities in Tokyo. "They are getting killed by Sony and Nintendo."

Also today, shareholders at Square, which is 19 percent owned by Sony, accepted a takeover bid by the rival Enix Corporation.

Hehehe... I forgot how much fun those old White Wolf games were. Master Yukio belittling the White Shadow. Blood going on horrible killing sprees... all the while not being able to tell a TV screen from a window or a fire for that matter. Solomon lighting shit on fire for Jah. Liang handing The White Shadow a hideous ass raping. Man those were the days...

WARNINGS FAILED!

FLAGRANT DISREGARD FOR REALITY PROTOCOLS HAS TRIGGERED HAVEN V. 3.7

Initiate Termination Sequence: X3R0T013RANC3

HIT Marks Dispatched

Those damned vampires. Burn 'em all, I say.

Knaa'mean?

All of your characters would be dead, if not for this simple equation:

EQUALS

The weed makes him good.

Stone

I don't care if it's a man or a machine, I will kick Haven's roundeye ass from here to Shanghai and then light her up using my electric fist just like I did last time. And if that doesn't work, I'll call up my Redkap buddy and he'll eat her and her stupid mechanical goons like nobody's business.

And if any other Technocracy fuckers want to start shit, I'll Do-punch them into space.

Roundeyes.

Knaa'mean?

It's too bad I never played in the campaigns of which you are all referring to :(. It's cool though that y'all are taking up the mantle of the Ninja Mastar. It seems to me...White Shadow, that you're deader than I am at the moment. Check yo'self, son...lol.

"You seek Death like you seek Air, when you come up against the Legions of the Phoenix. Fire will consume your spirit, Earth is where you'll lie, the Wind will whip your ashes, to ends of the world, into the deep of Water you die."

~The Silver Shadow

"There's nothing like a katana to the head, to give you a perspective on life." heh heh heh...

~E. J. W.