11 beloved PC game studios: Gone but not forgotten

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033100/11-beloved-pc-game-studios-gone-but-not-forgotten.html

 

LucasArts and Westwood Studios are in the list though.

 

Pretty soon EALA will join this list if C&C is dead.

[Guest Stevie_K]

Didn't know Sierra got absorbed by Activision. Well, you learn something new every day.

[Luk3us 63]

It was absorbed into the belly of the beast.

[Plok 323]

First to Vivendi Universal, which got closed down and then to Activision.

[Nmenth 290]

Didn't know Sierra got absorbed by Activision.

Yeah, it sucks... and now King's Quest 9 has just been cancelled for the third time in its life too, just to add salt to the wounds...

[Plok 323]

And No One Lives Forever is slowly, but surely closing to abandonware mode.

[Tore 33]

First to Vivendi Universal, which got closed down and then to Activision.

 

Vivendi still exists.In the form known as Activision-Blizzard which is called that because Vivendi owned Blizzard. When Activision and Vivendi merged to become Activision-Blizzard publishers and studios under Vivendi got the axe such as Sierra.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Vivendi still exists.In the form known as Activision-Blizzard which is called that because Vivendi owned Blizzard. When Activision and Vivendi merged to become Activision-Blizzard publishers and studios under Vivendi got the axe such as Sierra.

 

Vivendi still owns 61% of Activision-Blizzard today.