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 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 ...

, the co-founder and former CEO of

MicroProse Software MicroProse is an American video game publisher and developer founded by Bill Stealey, Sid Meier, and Andy Hollis in 1982. It developed and published numerous games, including starting the ''Civilization'' and '' X-COM'' series. Most of their i ...

, in 1995. It is chiefly a

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and

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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 II'' is a video game developed by American studio Kesmai Corporation and published by Interactive Magic for Windows. It is a sequel to ''Air Warrior''. Development Development of ''Air Warrior II'' was directly overseen by Bill ...

'', ''

Air Warrior III ''Air Warrior III'', known as ''Air Warrior 3'' in Europe, is a video game developed by Kesmai Studios and published by Interactive Magic and Midas Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows in 1997. The game had been scheduled to be rele ...

'', '' American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox'', '' Apache'', ''

Capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, priva ...

'', '' Destiny: World Domination from Stone Age to Space Age'', '' Fallen Haven'', ''

Hind A hind is a female deer, especially a red deer. Places * Hind (Sasanian province, 262-484) * Hind and al-Hind, a Persian and Arabic name for the Indian subcontinent * Hind (crater), a lunar impact crater * 1897 Hind, an asteroid Military ...

'', '' iF-22'', '' iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter'', ''

iM1A2 Abrams ''iM1A2 Abrams'' is a simulation of the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank for the Windows 95 operating system, developed by Charybdis Enterprises, and published by Interactive Magic (also known as Imagic) in 1997. The game was released as a CD-ROM. ...

'', '' Industry Giant'', '' Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom'', ''

Liberation Day Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day. Liberation marks the date of either a revolution, as in Cuba, the fall of a dictatorship, as in Portugal, or the end of an oc ...

'', '' North vs. South: The Great American Civil War'', '' Seven Kingdoms'', '' Spearhead'', ''

Star Rangers ''Star Rangers'' was a four-issue American science-fiction comic-book series created by writer Mark Ellis and artist Jim Mooney, following the adventures of a military spaceship crew in a 25th-century controlled by corporations. Publication hi ...

'', '' Semper Fi'', '' The Great Battles'' (series), '' Thunder Brigade'', '' Vangers'', '' War Inc.'', and ''

WarBirds ''WarBirds'' is a series of massively multiplayer online and offline World War II combat flight simulation video games originally developed by Interactive Creations of Grapevine and published by iEntertainment Network in 1995. The game includ ...

'' (series), among other titles.

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