InMediaRes Productions, LLC is an American game company that produces role-playing games and game supplements.

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In 2003, Loren L. Coleman created the company InMediaRes Productions, which he founded with Heather Coleman, Randall Bills, Tara Bills, and

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. InMediaRes received their licence for the electronic publication of ''

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'' fiction from WizKids in the fall of 2003. They made an announcement that year at

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36 and had their full website, BattleCorps.com, ready to go a year later in August 2004. InMediaRes kicked things off with the fiction of founders Bills and Coleman, and from there, month-by-month they continued with their electronic delivery model. InMediaRes announced their plans to create a similar "Holostreets" web site for ''

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'' fiction in 2005 but have not done so. Some of the fiction from the BattleCorps website has made it to print as ''Battletech Corps Vol. 1: The Corps'' (2008) and ''Battletech Corps Vol. 2: First Strike'' (2010) – following some changes to InMediaRes' licence in 2007 and 2008. In 2007,

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and Bills tried to buy FanPro LLC from

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, and when that did not work out WizKids stepped in to mediate; although they were not willing to let Boyle and Bills create a new company, they were willing to give the ''Battletech'' and ''Shadowrun'' licenses to InMediaRes. After acquiring the rights to both

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games, InMediaRes took on Boyle and Bills as regular staff – which had been part of the agreement with WizKids. Boyle remained as the ''Shadowrun'' Line Editor for the next few years, while Bills became a Managing Director of InMediaRes. InMediaRes created a subsidiary to hold their new gaming rights:

Catalyst Game Labs Catalyst Game Labs (CGL) was created in May 2007 by InMediaRes Productions, LLC for the purpose of publishing print ''Shadowrun'' and ''Classic BattleTech'' sourcebooks. InMediaRes placed a higher value on electronic material, and in 2007 started charging for Catalyst's ''Shadowrun'' releases.

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