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/ Adam Richardson

Microsoft acquires FASA Interactive

Microsoft today announced that it will acquire Chicago-based FASA Interactive Technologies, including its parent company Virtual Worlds Entertainment Group, from a group of shareholders including FASA Corp., creators of the enormously popular BattleTech universe of stories, games and characters.

Microsoft today announced that it will acquire Chicago-based FASA Interactive Technologies, including its parent company Virtual Worlds Entertainment Group, from a group of shareholders including FASA Corp., creators of the enormously popular BattleTech universe of stories, games and characters.

For January 1999, this is the business side of gaming doing what it always does: studios forming, publishers moving money around, lawsuits flying, and everyone promising the next big thing. Somewhere in that mess, players eventually get the games. Maybe.