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To: Jeff Lins who wrote (1209)	8/11/1998 7:54:00 AM
From: Andrew C.R. Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1773

Jeff- Regarding MPRS takeover - The buzz has been HAS or MWY. When I read this article about Hasbro's takeover of Avalon Hill and the fact that they are not interested in AH's war games; it makes me wonder if HAS made this decision because they intend to own MPRS's titles. headline.gamespot.com Just a guess on my part, but we shall soon see. Looks like it could be a challenging day in the stock market game. Andrew

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (1209)	8/11/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: Harry	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1773

This X-mas season's game lineup... Hi Jeff, I'm mostly a console gamer (though I do pay some attention to PC games), but this X-mas has definitely got a huge flood of potential-blockbuster games. From a gamer's perspective, it's awfully cool -- but from a publisher's perspective, it means a really crowded market. In fact, Crave Entertainment recently announced that their big X-mas Playstation game (Shadow Madness) will be pushed back to early 1999 to avoid what they see as an over-crowded X-mas game release schedule. Don't know how effective that strategy is (since you miss out on the holiday shopping season), but it is one approach. Harry

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (1209)	8/11/1998 1:05:00 PM
From: Bleeker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1773

The delay is not set in stone but it comes from my sellside sources. So take it with a grain of salt. Regarding MPRS, I don't have any specifics on the takeover. I think EIDOS has performed reasonably well considering the macro environment in the U.K.: higher wages/inflation and the Bank of England in a tightening mode. If the BoE continues with its tight monetary policy, the UK will be one the first European markets to crack. I think this is a risk that we have not looked at closely: that the prospect of an economic slowdown is far bigger in the UK now than it is in the US where clearly the Federal Reserve is on hold. This is one issue that makes this year very different than a year ago when it was still unclear if the BoE would embark on a tightening policy. Bleeker