there are a little over 100 million shares of Interplay out there. The fact that Fredrick Chesnais is buying more shares of Interplay and will soon own 10% or so of Interplay which is very good news for stockholders. Fredrick, through I2G, agreed to fund 4 of Interplay's games through his company. He was granted shares for this and options to purchase more shares, and he gave Interplay some worthless IP, submarine something or another, as part of the deal. Basically, the stock deal and options for Fredrick are a reward for getting 4 new Interplay games funded (this isn't confirmed yet, but this stock purchase makes it very, very likely that everything worked out, otherwise Fredrick would not have bought more shares). the games are Descent, Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, and MDK (I think MDK, don't remember on that one).