Sierra Entertainment
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Explore Oz Noir in Emerald City Confidential Game...to get the full story from each character you meet. If you love the old LucasArts or Sierra style adventure games, love Oz, or love film noir, this could well be the game for you. Just be warned that the "game" is second to the plot, and... In this article: Emerald City, LucasArts, Sierra, and Wicked |
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Boing Boing | October 20, 2009
What to do if you smell a terrorist
...the era of the point and click adventure -- which reached its pinnacle throughout the 90s thanks to genre-defining works by LucasArts, Sierra and Cyan -- seemed all but forever over in the decade following, as PC pr... More. Yes Men pwn...
In this article: LAPD, Climate change, BBC News, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Mark II, LucasArts, Sierra, and Tim McVeigh
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Kotaku | December 10, 2008
Happy Tenth Birthday, Havok! [Anniversary]
...majority of today's leading publishers and developers including Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, UbiSoft, Eidos, LucasArts, Sierra, Blizzard, Bethesda, Bungie, Valve, Neversoft, Relic, Lionhead and Pandemic Studios. Some of the...
In this article: Havok, LucasArts, Havok, Age of Empires III, Halo 2, Microsoft, Game Developers Conference, Indiana Jones, and Fallout 3
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digg.com | May 26, 2009
Top 100 Best Games of All Time #20-11
...either, but most people seem to agree with that. Broomie, on 05/26/2009, -1/+5I just hope either Grim Fandango or Psychonauts or any Lucasarts/Sierra adventure game make the cut. I doubt it considering not one adventure game is on...
In this article: Okami, Wii, Command & Conquer, Psychonauts, Grim Fandango, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, LucasArts, and Sierra
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Joystiq | July 20, 2009
Pizza Morgana: more new adventure launching next month
...first episode documents the actual move into "TerraMagia." @MystileArmor I hope Sierra follows LucasArts example and releases some remakes of their great games. Police Quest was one of my favourites as well. I doubt he'd want to. Tim...
In this article: LucasArts, Xbox 360, Madden 10, Pizza, Wii Sports Resort, Dragon Quest IX, Sierra, Tim Schafer, Square Enix, and Xbox
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Entertainment Software Rating Board
...video games in the United States. At this time, many companies who produced computer games such as LucasArts, Sierra On-Line and 3D Realms continued to follow the RSAC system as they were members of the SPA. Eventually, all companies,...
In this article: Entertainment Software Rating Board, Recreational Software Advisory Council, Entertainment Software Rating Board Interactive, Entertainment Software Association, Thrill Kill, Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, 3DO Rating System, 3DO Company, and Rockstar Games
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Kotaku | July 23, 2009
Sierra Adventure Games Now Available On Steam [PC]
...to draft, Top, Slurp) Copy this whole post to another site Adding Lucasarts adventure games to Steam was a great idea, but adding classic Sierra adventure games to Steam? That's an awesome idea. As of right now, you can buy the King's...
In this article: Steam, Sierra, PopCap Games, Valve, Quest for Glory II, LucasArts, and Activision
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
Hunt-the-pixel
...something like easter eggs . Some games made by Sierra On-Line , including and portions of the Space Quest and King's Quest series, have featured interfaces that at times required a hunt-the-pixel approach. One situation in LucasArts's '',...
In this article: LucasArts, Easter egg, King's Quest series, Space Quest, Sam and Max Hit the Road, and Sierra On-Line
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Joystiq | July 23, 2009
Space Quest and King's Quest Collections join Steam, with other Sierra titles
...popularity - thanks in large part to LucasArts classics making their way to places like Steam and Xbox Live Arcade - the availability of Sierra's classic adventure games has been a slightly more complicated affair. Of course, they became the...
In this article: Sierra, Activision, Space Quest, King's Quest, Police Quest, Bobby Kotick, Gabriel Knight, Wii Sports Resort, and DVD
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Ars Technica | May 25, 2009
Be a gamer, love your product-Ars' tips for gaming PR
...with games as long as I can remember. I started on the PC, with classic Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games, later owning and adoring just about every home console from the NES onward," Jabbari said. "Gaming is my life, in more ways than...
In this article: Atlus, Ubisoft, LucasArts, Sierra, Nintendo, and Twitter
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Description from Wikipedia:
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Sierra On-Line) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company was last owned by Activision, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.
Sierra is best known today for its multiple lines of seminal graphic adventure games started in the 1980s, some of which proved influential in the history of video games. The Sierra label has been absorbed by its parent company. Some franchises which were published by Sierra will be published by Activision. Activision announced in 2008 that they may sell the Sierra brand.
- Type:
- Subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (Defunct)
- Location:
- 12100 W. Washington Blvd.
- Founded:
- 1979 (as On-Line Systems)
- Industry:
- Computer and video game industry
- Key People:
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- Al Simone (Senior Vice President of Global Marketing)
- Martin Tremblay (President)
- Products:
- Parent Company:
- Activision Blizzard
- Status:
- Absorbed by parent company
- Website:
- http://www.sierra.com
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