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Re:Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud by gryson on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:11PM (#24944432)
By the mid- to late-1990s, Sierra's publishing output was far more diversified than just adventure games. They owned a large number of subsidiary development companies (such as Dynamix, Impression, and Papyrus) that were creating games in a wide range of genres.

They also published a little-known game called Half-Life in 1998...

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Re:Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud by microtherion on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:43PM (#24947891)
If not for the events in the article, we might have ended up with Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Portals.
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Re:Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud by Aeolun on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:55PM (#24949017)
Half-Life came out just about when I started gaming, and was when I first really picked up on Sierra’s existence.

Then right after, they were just gone. No more new games with the Sierra logo (that I saw anyway)

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Re:Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud by yters on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:58PM (#24945033)
Great point. I forgot HL was originally Sierra. It seems they were able to adapt to the new market, so CUC can probably be blamed for their demise.
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