Star Wars: The Force Unleashed released, and George Lucas at the scene

The new game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, went on sale today at 12:01 AM in San Francisco. George Lucas also showed up as the special surprise guest. The event was held on Monday night at Best Buy at the city's Misson District, where many fans flocked to, to witness the release of the latest and possibly greatest Star Wars game ever made. It's also thought by many to be one of the biggest hits of the year. It's unclear whether the game will become a best-seller but the store was packed yesterday at the launch.

George Lucas made his appearance when he gave a 2 minute speech, and for many fans, that was certainly a special treat. Especially because he doesn't make many appearances. For this game, he considers it to be the first Star Wars game an actual chapter of the overall storyline that begins with the prequels, Clone wars, and then the original films.

The game's main character,played by actor Sam Witwer, is an apprentice of Darth Vader, following his quest to seek redemption.
Plus, there's two new technologies being used in the game: A new Artificial Intelligence called Euphoria which makes sure things will occur differently each time even when everything began the same way. The second is digital moecular matter which is for making things more realistic by detailing closely something likean object smashing into something else.

During the event, people were allowed inside the store until it closed. Before it closed, everyone was be given a ticket that would guarantee them a spot in the line-up to buy the game. Not too many tickets were given out, only about a quarter of what was available (1000, so about 250 were given out). This statistic doesn't show anything about the hype for the game, as a LucasArts spokesperson wrote to CNET that pre-orders were high.
The only really interesting parts may have been when Witwer talked about his life as a fanboy and his auditioning for the role, and when George Lucas gave an interesting statement, "This is the first example of what we've been able to accomplish by putting (Industrial Light and Magic) and (Force Unleashed developer) LucasArts in the same building in (San Francisco's) Presidio," Lucas said. "So it was a great collaboration between the two of them."

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EA drops hostile $2 billion takeover bid of Take-two

After seven months of attempting to take over Take-Two, the publisher of super-popular franchise Grand Theft Auto, EA has finally dropped the bid.

It started out with friendly offers of $25 per share, which then became $26 per share, and went back down to $25.74 per share. The bid became hostile after several rejections by Take-Two as being too low, until last month when they went into private discussion.

"After careful consideration, including a management presentation and review of other due diligence materials provided by Take-Two Interactive Software, EA has decided not to make a proposal to acquire Take-Two and has terminated discussions with Take-Two," EA said in a statement Sunday.

This is quite a bit late, considering their original deadline was some time in February. After many extensions of the deadline, it seems they've finally given up. GTA 4 had $500 million in sales in its first week, which was a quarter of what EA was offering. Plus, Take-Two had also signed an agreement with Universal pictures to have Bio-Shock turned into a movie when EA was offering. I think Take-Two can survive easily without EA, and the fact that they're remained resilient even now, shows that they're not just some pushover.

It was in August that the two companies held private talks, which was also when the FFC decided to investigate into a possible merger. They then said no further action was necessary.

To EA, $2 billion just isn't enough, and right now, Take-Two is looking at a lot of growth without EA's money. There's no real reason to let EA buy take-Two.

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