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| Founded | 1995 |
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Number of employees | 19[1] (2001) |
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.[2] 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.[3] 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.
- ^ Dyrness, Christina (December 19, 2001). "Wild Bill Stealey getting back in the saddle". The News & Observer. p. 46. Archived from the original on December 28, 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Interactive Magic". Next Generation. No. 21. Imagine Media. September 1996. pp. 109–110.
- ^ "An interview with Wild Bill Stealey" (PDF). Next Generation. September 1996. p. 113. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2023.