Re: thdo

To my knowledge they are fully liquidated and have sold off all their
intellectual property.  Perhaps the rebirth of the web site is somebody who
bought the rights at auction and is trying to use the name to build a new
company... kind of like how the Atari brand name has jumped around even
though the original Atari corporation went bust nearly a decade ago-- 
evidentally Infogrames has most recently bought the rights to "Atari" upon
acquiring the assets of Hasbro Interactive, and Infogrames have gone so far
as to rename themselves Atari and adopt the logo!  So a name can have a lot
of weight behind it, it would seem.

Ubi Soft http://www.ubi.com bought the rights to Might & Magic at the 3do
fire sale so hopefully you will see a continuation of the franchise through
them.  Trip Hawkins personally bought a few of the patent assets so perhaps
he will try to pursue them under a new going concern.  Microsoft bought the
high heat baseball rights.

"S. Dees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> So are they completely shut down, or are they just  restructuring"? I
> wasreally looking forward to Might and Magic Heroes V...... :(
> Thanks for any info...
> Sean.
> "SSF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Looks like www.3do.com is officially kaput.  Seems the company
liquidation
> > is almost complete.  The 3do multiplayer was a thing of greatness for
its
> > time, though perhaps their 32 bit push was too early and too expensive
in
> a
> > 16 bit dominated world.  Difficult for a small co to compete in a gaming
> > world dominated by giants like Microsoft, Sony, EA, and Nintendo.
> >
> > They should have just closed up shop and gone into liquidation when they
> > sold off their M2 technology to Matsushita for big bucks.  That was the
> > height of their financial greatness.  While their subsequent software
> > publishing days produced some nice titles, how could they compete
against
> > the other big publishers out there?  After about the 10th Army Men
sequel
> I
> > think the writing was on the wall that the creativity was gone.
> >
> >
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