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Interactive Magic
IEntertainment Network (IENT, stylized as iEntertainment Network and formerly known as Interactive Magic, iMagic, and iMagiconline) is an American video game company founded by Bill Stealey, the co-founder and former CEO of MicroProse Software, in 1995. It is chiefly a developer and publisher of simulation computer games. The company was noted for hiring many industry outsiders, i.e. skilled software engineers with no prior experience in making games. Interactive Magic went public in 1998 and was sold to a venture capitalist in 1999, when Bill Stealey left the company; Stealey returned in the early 2000s. The company has published '' Air Warrior II'', ''Air Warrior III'', '' American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox'', ''Apache'', ''Capitalism'', '' Destiny: World Domination from Stone Age to Space Age'', '' Fallen Haven'', '' Hind'', '' iF-22'', '' iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter'', '' iM1A2 Abrams'', ''Industry Giant'', '' Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Stealey
John Wilbur Stealey Sr. is an American game developer and publisher who founded MicroProse with Sid Meier. He also founded (in 1995) and is the current CEO of iEntertainment Network. Business career Stealey took a job with General Instrument as their Director of Strategic Planning for their Systems and Service Division in Hunt Valley, Maryland. There he met Sid Meier and co-founded his first game company, MicroProse Software. As CEO he grew the company to over $43 million in annual sales, taking MicroProse Software public in 1991, and selling in 1993 to a Kleiner Perkins company, Spectrum HoloByte. He resigned from the company following the merger. Stealey started the game software company Interactive Magic in 1995, took it public in 1998, and sold to a private equity firm in 1999. While running iEntertainment Network, Stealey mentioned in a 1996 interview that he owned his own military training aircraft and flew it for recreation on a regular basis. Personal life Stealey grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter
''iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter'' is a combat flight simulation game developed and published by Interactive Magic for Microsoft Windows in 1998. Reception The game received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive. It indexed over 315,000 articles relating to more than 14,500 video games. GameRankings was discontinued in December 2019, with its staff bei .... See also *'' iF-22'' *'' iF-16'' References External links * 1998 video games Combat flight simulators IEntertainment Network games Single-player video games Video games developed in the United States Windows games Windows-only games {{flightsim-videogame-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Inc
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties. While some war studies scholars consider war a universal and ancestral aspect of human nature, others argue it is a result of specific socio-cultural, economic or ecological circumstances. Etymology The English word ''war'' derives from the 11th-century Old English words ''wyrre'' and ''werre'', from Old French ''werre'' (also ''guerre'' as in modern French), in turn from the Frankish *''werra'', ultimately deriving from the Proto-Germanic *''w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vangers
''Vangers'' (''Вангеры'', also known as ''Vangers: One for the Road'') is a racing role-playing video game developed by K-D Lab, a Russian company. It was released in North America in June 29, 1998 after receiving positive responses at that year's E3. An updated re-release was made available on Steam and GOG.com in 2014. The re-release includes support for Mac OS X and Linux. Plot and setting At the beginning of a new game the player is provided with text introduction to the major events of the game world genesis. According to the introduction, a faction of advanced humans, termed as Spirits, at some point in time gains a technology of creating the Passages between different worlds, the source of technology being Spirits' transcendental contacts. With this knowledge humans undertake rushed construction of the Passages and the new worlds colonization. These events are portrayed in the later ''Perimeter'' game, which is the prequel to Vangers. The game of ''Vangers'' start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder Brigade
''Thunder Brigade'' is an action video game developed by Bluemoon Interactive and published by Interactive Magic and Midas Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows in 1998–1999. Reception The game received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive. It indexed over 315,000 articles relating to more than 14,500 video games. GameRankings was discontinued in December 2019, with its staff bei .... References External links * 1998 video games Action games Bluemoon Interactive games IEntertainment Network games Midas Interactive Entertainment games Video games developed in the United States Windows games Windows-only games {{action-videogame-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Battles (series)
''The Great Battles'' is a computer wargame series based on the '' Great Battles of History'' board game series by GMT Games. The three titles in the series—'' The Great Battles of Alexander'', '' The Great Battles of Hannibal'' and '' The Great Battles of Caesar''—were developed by Erudite Software and published by Interactive Magic. Gameplay Games *'' The Great Battles of Alexander'' (June 22, 1997) *'' The Great Battles of Hannibal'' (November 7, 1997) *'' The Great Battles of Caesar'' (March 26, 1998) *''The Great Battles Collector's Edition'' (December 1998) Development history Erudite Software developed all three ''Great Battles'' titles with the same game engine. Reception According to ''Computer Games Strategy Plus'', the ''Great Battles'' games were "very well received by wargamers", and were successful enough that Interactive Magic worked with Erudite Software again to produce the wargame '' North vs. South''. Alan Dunkin of GameSpot ''GameSpot'' is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semper Fi (video Game)
''Semper Fi'' is a 1998 strategy video game developed by Stanley Associates and published by Interactive Magic. Gameplay ''Semper Fi'' is a turn-based strategy game in which the player commands a Marine battalion. Development The game was developed by Stanley Associates a company founded in 1966. Reception GameSpot ''GameSpot'' is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games. The site was launched on May 1, 1996, created by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. In addition ... gave the game a score of 6.8 out of 10 rating stating, "The truth of the matter is, if you can take the 'Semper Fi' slogan and the USMC logos and replace them with pretty much anything else, you'd still have nothing more than an OK game struggling to be something much better." References {{reflist 1998 video games IEntertainment Network games Stanley Associates games Turn-based strategy video games Video ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Rangers (video Game)
Star Rangers is a space flight simulator and strategy computer game for DOS developed by Interactive Magic and published in October 1995. Plot Players take on the role of a Star Ranger, the equivalent of law enforcement in the 23rd century, a pilot of a high-tech spaceship which he uses to repel Tuareg bandits along shared borders. Gameplay The game starts in a practice mode in which the player continually faces waves of enemies until death. This is an 'arcade' option of the game, which doesn't explore the storyline. The game offers a campaign mode which comprises a group of missions in which these encounters escalate. These missions evolve from incursion defense, to escort duty, to outright assaults. Players are provided only the Star Ranger spaceship throughout the campaign, but are offered a fair amount of customization of loadout and tuning. The player can divert energy to defenses (shield recharge) and offense (plasma gun recharge, autocannon reload). These levels can be ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spearhead (video Game)
''Spearhead'' is a tank simulation / action video game developed by Zombie Studios and MAK Technologies, Inc., and published by Interactive Magic and Midas Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows in 1998. Development The game was showcased at E3 1997. Reception ''Spearhead'' received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. The game was described as a mix between tank simulation and an action game. ''GameSpot'' said, "The game offers a handful of features and elements that seem ideal for hard-core sim fans, but the mission designs and the general feel of gameplay seem more appropriate for an action game than a serious sim." ''IGN'' said, "the emphasis here is definitely more on fun than it is on realism." ''PC Accelerator ''PC Accelerator'' (''PCXL'') was an American personal computer game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (currently a subsidiary of Future plc). It was known for its ''Maxim''-like humor and photography. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Kingdoms (video Game)
''Seven Kingdoms'' () is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Trevor Chan of Enlight Software. The game enables players to compete against up to six other kingdoms allowing players to conquer opponents by defeating them in war (with troops or machines), capturing their buildings with spies, or offering opponents money for their kingdom. The ''Seven Kingdoms'' series went on to include a sequel, '' Seven Kingdoms II: The Fryhtan Wars''. In 2007, Enlight released a further title in the Seven Kingdoms series, '. Gameplay ''Seven Kingdoms'' made departures from the traditional real-time strategy model of "gather resources, build a base and army, and attack" set by other RTS games. The economic model bears more resemblance to a turn-based strategy game than to the traditional "build-workers, and harvest-resources" system in games such as ''Command & Conquer'', ''StarCraft'', and ''Age of Empires''. The game features an espionage system that allows players to train and con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great American Civil War
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun '' thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberation Day (video Game)
''Liberation Day'' (aka Fallen Haven: Liberation Day) is an isometric turn-based strategy game published by Interactive Magic in 1998 for PC. It is the sequel to the 1997 game '' Fallen Haven''. It is set in the 24th century following a war between humans and aliens. Reviews *''Electric Games'' (1998) *''The Adrenaline Vault'' (May 16, 1998) *''PC Zone ''PC Zone'', founded in 1993, was the first magazine dedicated to games for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom. Earlier PC magazines such as '' PC Leisure'', ''PC Format'' and '' PC Plus'' had covered games bu ...'' (Aug 13, 2001)http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=3148 References External links * 1998 video games IEntertainment Network games Micomeq games Multiplayer and single-player video games Turn-based strategy video games Video games developed in Canada Windows games Windows-only games {{strategy-videogame-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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