Magnet Interactive Studios

Magnet Interactive Studios was a software development company based in Georgetown. Founded in 1989 by designer Greg Johnson as a print and 3D design firm and later joined by businessman Basel Dalloul, the company saw a short-lived software and video game business in the mid-1990s as a subsidiary of the Magnet Interactive Group holding company.^[2] The studio was shut down in 1996 after demand dropped due to the advent of the Internet, firing its employees. Only Magnet Interactive Communications, a web development company and separate subsidiary, remained operational.

The company had five divisions, action and role-playing video games, business applications, edutainment and children's games, interactive story and strategy, and the advanced products group.^[2] Among the video games developed by the studio are Beyond the Wall: Stories Behind the Vietnam Wall (1995), Icebreaker (1995), a strategy and action game, and Chop Suey (1995), a point-and-click adventure. They were developing a space video game called Bluestar, planned for release in November 1995, and Hellraiser: Virtual Hell, a game based on the Hellraiser franchise planned for release in early 1996, but they were both cancelled upon the studio's shutdown.