According to a source close to Vivendi states the company is still going ahead with plans for an eventual buyout although recent stipulations are making it a lot harder for a deal to be done.
Vivendi is still demanding an offer of around 10 billion euros along with the inability to purchase their assets separate as part of any deal to buy out the company. Activision and Blizzard which are both owned by Vivendi are being valued at around 8 billion euros within the offer itself.
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Philippe Capron, Vivendi finance director, last week claimed that the entertainment empire had ruled out a "straight break-up" between its media and telecoms operations.
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Microsoft is currently in negotiations for a potential buyout but the status of the talks is close to falling apart with the main issue being Microsoft wants the asking price to be lowered. Sony themselves have stated they have no interest at all in doing any negotiations regardless if the price itself were to be lowered.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...VG-General-RSS
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Daily Recap:
1) Based on current sales data and estimates, Darksiders II has sold roughly 630,000+ copies since its launch with the PC version selling 3x more than the original did in the same time span.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ers-franchise/
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Darksiders+II
2) According to Christian Svensson who runs the official Capcom blog, Capcom Unity, the main reason why the company seems to have interest in Mega Man is due to them branching out the series into too many sub-branches and have no general agreement on which direction to take the series into the future.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/chri...ga-mans-status
http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_capc...m=29#523794881