Rage Buys Online

Publisher and developer Rage Software is buying its way into the mobile and interactive television games business with two recent purchases. The company is spending close to five million dollars to pick up internet game makers Caffeine Studios and The Internet Football Club. Rage will put the two companies together to create a browser based soccer management game that will be accessible over the Internet as well as on interactive television platforms and WAP based mobile systems. "The explosive growth in Internet gaming through fixed and wireless devices provides us with a huge number of opportunities on which we intend to capitalize," said Rage CEO Paul Finnegan.