Sierra Entertainment Inc., About to Close?
Sierra Entertainment Inc, (formerly Sierra On-Line) was a Worldwide American video game developer and published founded in 1979 as Online Systems. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company was last owned by a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (a subsidiary of Vivendi SA) Sierra is best known today for its multiple lines of seminal graphic adventure games started in the 1980s (notably King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Quest for Glory), some of which proved influential in the history of video games.
Sierra, which moved to Bellevue from Northern California in 1994, makes video games for Windows-based PCs and hand-held devices, such as the Nintendo GameBoy. The company also makes consoles, such as the Sony PlayStation2 and Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox.
But, a sad story came out in the news. Sierra is laying off 110 employees over the next two months as part of their major reorganization at their parent company Vivendi Universal Games. The parent company has been saddled with debt for more than two years , and has been the frequent subject of acquisition rumors involving their competitors, Microsoft and Sony.
The 110 employees about to be laid off are part of the 350 manpower reduction.
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