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<p>{mosimage}William sent me this email this morning, but i first saw it over at <a href="http://www.hookedonpirates.com/">Addicted to Pirates!,</a> so im not sure who gets the credit for it <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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<p>Yeas, Atari now do not have anything to do with Pirates! anymore it seems according to the press release that has come out from <a href="http://www.take2games.com/index.php" target="_blank"><strong>Take 2 Games</strong></a>. You can read the whole press release <a href="http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=161977" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#0000ff">HERE</font></strong></a> but the important part is</p>
<p><em>New York, NY - May 2, 2005 - 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and FIRAXIS Games announced today the acquisition of publishing rights to Sid Meier's Pirates!. Pirates! for the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft will be released by 2K Games this summer. Also included in this expanded partnership between 2K Games and FIRAXIS Games are publishing rights to the previously released PC version of Sid Meier's Pirates!.</em> </p>
<p>What does this mean for the general pirate loving fan? Well it shows that Firaxis see a life after the remake of Pirates!. And for the X-Box owners it might well mean a tad better support.</p>
<p>Also following on from that story, if you are headed to E3 this year whatever you do don't stop by the Atari booth and ask to play Pirates! X-Box goto the Take 2 booth where there will be 4 copys of Pirates! waiting for you to play around with <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Im not sure where it is in the expo, ill find out later. Either way William will be there to enquire about the furute of Pirates! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /></p>
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /></p><p>Yeas, Atari now do not have anything to do with Pirates! anymore it seems according to the press release that has come out from <a href="http://www.take2games.com/index.php" target="_blank"><strong>Take 2 Games</strong></a>. You can read the whole press release <a href="http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=161977" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#0000ff">HERE</font></strong></a> but the important part is</p>
<p><em>New York, NY - May 2, 2005 - 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and FIRAXIS Games announced today the acquisition of publishing rights to Sid Meier's Pirates!. Pirates! for the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft will be released by 2K Games this summer. Also included in this expanded partnership between 2K Games and FIRAXIS Games are publishing rights to the previously released PC version of Sid Meier's Pirates!.</em> </p>
<p>What does this mean for the general pirate loving fan? Well it shows that Firaxis see a life after the remake of Pirates!. And for the X-Box owners it might well mean a tad better support.</p>
<p>Also following on from that story, if you are headed to E3 this year whatever you do don't stop by the Atari booth and ask to play Pirates! X-Box goto the Take 2 booth where there will be 4 copys of Pirates! waiting for you to play around with <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Im not sure where it is in the expo, ill find out later. Either way William will be there to enquire about the furute of Pirates! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /></p>