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Sierra Lives?

NimeniNimeni
edited February 2010 in General Chat
Okay, my little brother got a Spiderwick game for the wii this Christmas. The other day I got bored and decided to play it, and much to my surprise, up pops a Sierra logo as its loading! I'm talking the mountain in a circle, like the old school logo. I thought Sierra was dead-- or at least name changed! What's going on? Does anyone know? And what are the chances that if they are still around they'll come out with a good adventure game any time soon? :D

Here-- this isn't from his game, just a pic I found in the internet, but it shows the logo.

spiderwick.jpg

Comments

  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited January 2010
    Sierra still publish games at least Activision/Blizzard own them according to Wiki, I bought FEAR the other day

    fear2.jpg


    ...see?
  • NimeniNimeni
    edited January 2010
    Yes, I see. I thought they had completely changed their name, but I guess they did more of a merger and still publish some things under their own name? I definitely associated them with Activision, but I didn't realize the Sierra logo was still going out on things.

    EDIT: But are they still doing any traditional adventure games? Or even somewhat untraditional adventure games that wouldn't fall completely or even heavily into the action category?
  • IcedhopeIcedhope
    edited January 2010
    Sierra is no longer as of 2008 the sierra we all know and love is defunct.
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited January 2010
    Yeah, it's like those historic, and now meaningless, record labels like Columbia and Epic which are all just Sony Music thesedays.
  • Afr0Afr0
    edited January 2010
    Sierra was bought out by Activision, which was bought out by Vivendi Games, which recently (last year) merged with Blizzard Entertainment. I'm just waiting for EA Games to buy it all...
  • NimeniNimeni
    edited January 2010
    Ah, that explains it. Kinda sad, though.
  • WiggiWiggi
    edited February 2010
    Ho hum, that name makes me want to relive the Quest for Glory series.
  • BrainiacBrainiac
    edited February 2010
    Wiggi wrote: »
    Ho hum, that name makes me want to relive the Quest for Glory series.

    Don't forget the QfG2 remake by AGDI.
  • WiggiWiggi
    edited February 2010
    Hot damn! I forgot about that! eee! :D
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited February 2010
    Brainiac wrote: »
    Don't forget the QfG2 remake by AGDI.

    And then there's the King's Quest I remake by AGDI, the King's Quest II remake also by AGDI, and the King's Quest III remake by IA.

    There also are remakes of King's Quest IV and Space Quest II in the works, but God knows when these things get finished on such a limited or non-existent budget. =\
  • BrainiacBrainiac
    edited February 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    And then there's the King's Quest I remake by AGDI, the King's Quest II remake also by AGDI, and the King's Quest III remake by IA.

    There also are remakes of King's Quest IV and Space Quest II in the works, but God knows when these things get finished on such a limited or non-existent budget. =\

    I'm a tester for Infamous Adventures. We currently hope to have the Space Quest II remake out next month. Behold the trailer and Roger Wilco's Christmas vlog. Check the website for more.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited February 2010
    Afr0 wrote: »
    Sierra was bought out by Activision, which was bought out by Vivendi Games, which recently (last year) merged with Blizzard Entertainment. I'm just waiting for EA Games to buy it all...

    That's not correct at all. Sierra was bought by CUC in 1996, which was bought out by Vivendi in 2002 (it was at this time that they changed the name from Sierra On-Line to Sierra Entertainment), which "merged with" (was bought out by) ActiVision (now ActiVision Blizzard, because Vivendi owned Blizzard) who now hold the rights as of 2008. The adventure branch of Sierra was closed down in 1999 and Sierra closed up all its offices and became simply a ghost game label somewhere around 2005 or 2006 I can't remember.

    I don't think EA Games are going to buy out ActiVision seeing as it is the biggest game publisher in the world right now (yes bigger than EA Games).
  • PimPamPetPimPamPet
    edited February 2010
    Brainiac wrote: »
    I'm a tester for Infamous Adventures. We currently hope to have the Space Quest II remake out next month. Behold the trailer and Roger Wilco's Christmas vlog. Check the website for more.

    Damn! I totally forgot you guys were still working on SQ2! An all-time favorite of mine!

    <writes note to self to not forget to check your website next month.>
  • Afr0Afr0
    edited February 2010
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    That's not correct at all. Sierra was bought by CUC in 1996, which was bought out by Vivendi in 2002 (it was at this time that they changed the name from Sierra On-Line to Sierra Entertainment), which "merged with" (was bought out by) ActiVision (now ActiVision Blizzard, because Vivendi owned Blizzard) who now hold the rights as of 2008. The adventure branch of Sierra was closed down in 1999 and Sierra closed up all its offices and became simply a ghost game label somewhere around 2005 or 2006 I can't remember.

    I don't think EA Games are going to buy out ActiVision seeing as it is the biggest game publisher in the world right now (yes bigger than EA Games).

    Same story, just different order of events. :P
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited February 2010
    No, it's not the same story. Vivendi did not buy out ActiVision. That's not a different order of events that's a different story. :p
  • Lord-zLord-z
    edited February 2010
    Nimeni wrote: »
    Yes, I see. I thought they had completely changed their name, but I guess they did more of a merger and still publish some things under their own name? I definitely associated them with Activision, but I didn't realize the Sierra logo was still going out on things.

    EDIT: But are they still doing any traditional adventure games? Or even somewhat untraditional adventure games that wouldn't fall completely or even heavily into the action category?


    They don't even make games. They are just a name to smack on boxes. Sierra, as founded by Ken and Roberta, is dead and gone. Vivendi is just using them as sort of a "Weekend at Bernies" kind of deal, moving their corpse around to fool people with fond memories of the company as it once was.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited February 2010
    I just explained all this. And Vivendi is no more. ActiVision runs things now.
  • NimeniNimeni
    edited February 2010
    Lord-z wrote: »
    They don't even make games. They are just a name to smack on boxes. Sierra, as founded by Ken and Roberta, is dead and gone. Vivendi is just using them as sort of a "Weekend at Bernies" kind of deal, moving their corpse around to fool people with fond memories of the company as it once was.

    Wow. Just . . . wow. I have a very vivid image of this in my head, now. Let's just say I'm going to lock that game in the cabinet if I ever spend the night at my parents' house, again. As much as I loved Sierra, I don't fancy a chance midnight rendez-vous with their kicked around corpse. Especially since I have no assurance that their games won't kill me.
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