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GAME Studios rises from Learning Company ashes

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Feb 2, 2001.

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    (Originally posted by Nazgul)

    The Gores Technology Group announced that The Learning Company's Entertainment Division will now be known as GAME Studios.

    The newly-named unit will be both an internal developer and a third-party publisher for both PC and console games, according to a press release from The Learning Company. GAMES Studios will focus on PlayStation 2, X-Box, and PC entertainment products.

    Explaining the move, General Manager Jeff Hoff notes that "While The Learning Company name carries a lot of weight in the educational and productivity marketplaces, there has been a great deal of confusion as to our identity in the gaming community." People never fail to recognize our strong franchise lines, such as Myst and Chessmaster, but as an overall brand, we've been referred to as The Learning Company, Broderbund, Mindscape, SSI, Red Orb; you name it, we've heard it. So, we felt it was time to come up with a name that left no doubt in anyone's mind. Simply put, GAME Studios is what we do; it's who we are."

    All games published by the company will appear under the GAMES Studios imprimatur, and the company reaffirmed its commitment to existing PC projects such as Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, Silent Hunter II, and Harpoon 4.

    The press release offered the following schedule of PC game releases for 2001:

    The Moon Project (Windows) April
    Myst III: Exile (Windows /Macintosh) April
    Destroyer Command (Windows) May
    Silent Hunter II (Windows) May
    Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (Windows) May
    Larry Bond's Harpoon4 (Windows) July
    Flanker Attack (Windows) July
    Solar (Windows) September
    Warlords IV (Windows) September
     
    NewsPro, Feb 2, 2001
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