For Yang Yun's inquiry, Alexei did not hesitate at all, and agreed with relief, smiling and letting out a sigh of relief, as if he had been aggrieved for a long time.

Alexei sighed and said, "Yang, in fact, I wanted to tell you about this for a long time. In recent years, Longteng has expanded rapidly, and every branch is developing rapidly, only KTT has not improved, and the biggest problem is that I can't operate. I'm ashamed that I didn't help in Longteng's several crises, and even if you didn't say it, I would have submitted my resignation to you after Christmas this year. ”

Alexey does have a big shortcoming in terms of operation, and he is more suitable to be a technical engineer than the president of a modern enterprise with assets of hundreds of millions, which is also an important reason why Yang Yun decided to let Blackstone Group replace him.

However, Alexey is a very good person, and he has not done anything wrong, Yang Yun is ready to have another appointment, and he will give Alexei some compensation financially.

Yang Yun asked, "Why did you resign?" Even if you don't want to be a CEO, why don't you stay and design games with projects? ”

Alexei shook his head with a smile: "My family moved to Minnesota, which has a similar climate to Russia, and found a job there. After escaping from the Soviet Union, I deeply realized that family is the most important thing in the world, and the metropolis of New York is not for me, and I want to be with my family and live in a small city. ”

Minnesota, isn't this just right, it's just that it was changed from the Phoenix Suns to the Minnesota Timberwolves, which is also quite in line with Yang Yun's plan.

Yang Yun said with a smile: "For so many years, you are my most trusted and reassuring friend. I'm reluctant to let you go. You can go to Minnesota, but keep serving me. I have bought a Spanish Primera Liga football club. Now I still want to buy an NBA team, why don't I buy the Minnesota Timberwolves and let you manage it. Run or leave it to the professionals, you just need to be my spokesperson and watch my money, how about that? ”

Alexei burst out laughing: "What a coincidence! My older brother Razov is a scout for the Timberwolves and he's looking for the right Eastern European player for the Timberwolves, maybe we can work together as a family! ”

Peja Stojakovic, a three-point shooter and the Kings' No. 2 star after Webb, is from Yugoslavia.

AK-47 Andrei Kirilenko, all-round striker. The king of blocks, who has been selected for the All-Star team, is from Russia.

Although there are not many big-name stars in Eastern Europe, there are two people whose names Yang Yun can remember, at least it shows that being an Eastern European scout is not a bad thing, and with Yang Yun's help, their scouting business can also expand to Europe, such as Nowitzki and Gasol.

Pro Evolution Soccer was still in the 90s, and NBALive was a PC game that Yang Yun fell in love with after he went to college. In addition, Chinese players such as Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, and Battelle landed in the NBA, and the national media watched the Rockets and NBA games every day. Therefore, in terms of the depth of impression of the star's name, Yang Yun is more familiar with NBA stars.

You don't have to buy the Rockets, you don't have to buy the Lakers or the Heat. Yang Yun only needs an NBA entry threshold, and the Timberwolves are enough. There is the wolf king Garnett, and then buy a few stars whose names Yang Yun knows in advance. With the investment of money and knowledge, it is not too difficult to play the NBA.

The matter was settled, Blackstone paid $80 million to Alexey, and signed a supplementary agreement with Yang Yun valid for ten years, if Blackstone and Longteng could not control more than 50% of AMD within ten years, Yang Yun could use 80 million to buy back 40% of Blackstone's shares in KTT, and the two sides broke up peacefully.

The promise made by Yang Yun is that all acquisitions of PC game companies must be made through KTT, not Dragon, and after KTT acquires EA and Ubisoft, or completely bankrupts them, the two sides will sit down to negotiate again and redivide the interests.

For Yang Yun, it is enough to achieve the position of the overlord on the PC side, and money is just an incidental thing.

But for Blackstone, their only purpose is to make money, so they want to prevent Yang Yun's wholly-owned Longteng from encroaching on the interests of their two joint venture KTT.

To make KTT a typical Wall Street company, go public, pay dividends, mergers and acquisitions, and raise funds, so that it can become a giant enterprise with capital operation, become the hegemon of the PC game industry, and take it as its mission to defeat EA and Ubisoft, so it seems that the requirements of the two sides do not conflict, so the two sides quickly completed the closing procedures.

The first thing KTT did was to attack from within 3DO, using the identity of a minority shareholder to cover and obtain a lot of internal information, and Panasonic's 3DO game division was the first to be impacted.

The heaviest bomb of the Christmas holiday in 1993 was collected by KTT, after the Blackstone Group became a shareholder, professionals did professional things, plus some of the information collected by Cheng Dong in the home of EA executives, and soon grabbed 3DO's pigtails.

In October, the support fund led by 3DO at the game developer conference had a review loophole, and the Panasonic 3DO game department plagiarized the game idea "Indian Temple" of a small company in India, and turned it over to EA to copy and plagiarize, and EA launched the PC version of "Egyptian Pyramids" after a makeover.

As for the small Indian company, Temple of India did sell on the 3DO platform, but sold a measly 1,000 copies, and although the game was based in India, the adventure and level modes were exactly the same as the Egyptian pyramids, with a whopping 85% similarity.

One is the host, the other is the PC, across the huge, the two sides have a huge disparity in strength, the poor small Indian company has no chance to defend at all, after receiving an inexplicable $20,000 support fund subsidy, can only swallow the anger and suffer a loss!

The news was anonymously stabbed into the media, with names and surnames, internal audit records and work logs of the 3DO games division, testimonies from small companies in India, bank account information, and specific sales of "Egyptian Pyramids" in EA's quarterly listing report, all of which showed that the news was correct!

From December 16th until Christmas, the global gaming industry was filled with negative news about 3DO, and a wave of unsettled events took turns to push 3DO and EA to the forefront!

"Hahahaha!" Yang Yun looked at the news report and felt very relieved: "Nintendo said that Ximu was pressed by Sega SGL1, and jumped out and bit people without even seeing the evidence, saying that we copied Dune 2." Very good, now 3DO and EA have stolen goods, human evidence, physical evidence are complete, if they Nintendo don't jump out and bite 3DO, see how I hit them in the face! ”

Jiang Shaoyun was in high spirits, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile: "Do you need me to refute this ugly phenomenon on TV again?" ”

Yang Yun shook his head: "Hold off for a while, but you can inform Minoru Arakawa privately, let them feel the grievance and entanglement, and then experience the feeling of pain and helplessness." If they don't take the lead in criticizing 3DO, then we're welcome, and I'll beat Nintendo with me! ”

Jiang Shaoyun laughed: "Now it's the Three Kingdoms, it's impossible for Nintendo to be alone, they only have two paths to go, but neither path is easy to walk!" ”

Jiang Shaoyun is not wrong at all, Minoru Arakawa and Pu Yamauchi are now entangled and hesitant, obviously something happened to 3DO, why would they feel embarrassed by Nintendo?

Arakawa had a headache: "Father-in-law, Panasonic sent a commissioner to ask us to lend a hand, what should we do?" ”

Panasonic is here to ask for help, they don't expect Nintendo to intercede for them, they just hope that they don't fall into the ground.

But once Nintendo is silent, then the West Wood incident will definitely be compared by Longteng, elevating Longteng, belittling Nintendo, and suppressing 3DO.

And if Nintendo criticizes 3DO, it will offend Panasonic fiercely, making Nintendo, which is already in a weak position, even more isolated, and leaving an ugly title in the game industry.

Yamauchi Pu's voice on the other end of the phone was obviously tired, but he was not reconciled: "3DO is no longer saved because of the scandal, but we can't let Longteng get the benefits!" Arakawa, refuse Matsushita, and then use all our connections in North America to keep this matter down as much as possible! ”

Arakawa was helpless: "But the Wall Street newspapers are not affected by us, and the news about EA and 3DO is the first to be disclosed from various financial newspapers on Wall Street!" ”

Yamauchi Pu said angrily: "This is KTT making trouble, can't you see it?" It was a mistake for us to do a joint venture back then! ”

Arakawa really has nothing to say, Yamauchi Pu is thunderous, and the two recall that Mario &Tetris, a joint venture with KTT, was blinded by KTT at that time, and used Super Mario and Tetris to carry out equal copyright sharing cooperation, and now that Blackstone is a shareholder, it will definitely bring new variables.

It's not that Japanese companies are incompetent, it's that Chinese are too cunning......

3DO is still dying, but Nintendo can't help it, and his heart is sad, and the rabbit and fox are sad......

On December 28, 1993, because of Nintendo's inaction, Jiang Shaoyun took the initiative to bring up the old things again, and opened the old accounts of the year.

In addition to bringing out the shamelessness of 3DO, he also angrily accused Nintendo of double standards, why is it that Nintendo prefers to look at people with color-changing eyes for the same similar thing, which is really against professional ethics, which is deliberately suppressing newcomers!

The last straw overwhelmed the behemoth of 3DO, and after a year and a half of persistence, 3DO was dissolved, and the shareholders were responsible for their own profits and losses, and all debts were shared equally, and the big alliance composed of seven giant companies collapsed like this! (To be continued......)