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LifestreamVia GamerFeed: Sierra Gets Shutdown
More depressing news for the industry, Vivendi Universal Games has cut 350 staff and shut down Seattle-based Sierra. The venerable games company created some of the most popular action and adventure games in the 80’s. The Sierra brand will live on in name only and projects tied to the Sierra pipeline, Half-Life 2, Ground Control II and Tribes: Vengeance are already being developed by other teams within Vivendi. Also affected by the restructuring, the Hoyle brand of card and board games have been canceled.
I guess this was to be expected. The game studio has been in a state of decay for years and since dropping direct development of the Tribes franchise there was little left within the company. Much like the Atari brand, Sierra will live on … but only in name.
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