According to a post at GameDaily, Sega is happy being the sixth largest publisher in North America – and has no interest in mergers or acquisitions that seem to be all the rage among big publishers these days. Still warm from the glow of selling over five million copies of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Sega of America president Simon Jeffery reportedly told Reuters that despite the increased consolidation among publishers in the industry (EA’s purchase of BioWare/Pandemic, Activision Blizzard, and EA looking to buy Take-Two were all cited), Sega has no interest in being acquired.

Gamepro strikes again. After erroneously claiming that they had the scoop on a possible sequel to Gears of War, their latest issue puts forth the speculation that Microsoft may buy Gears‘ developer, Epic for $1 billion, according to DBTechno.com. On the surface, it may make a little bit of sense, considering Gears of War‘s great more »