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Apparently, Vivendi Games has launched a new division called "Sierra Online" (Not On-Line) which will, in the words of VG head Bruce Hack, in an article from this May:
''On a going forward basis, we are becoming much clearer about how our divisions operate - and you can see that in our E3 booth as you walk through. There is Blizzard Entertainment, you know them, you know what they're purposed to do. There is Sierra Entertainment, and that entity is an umbrella over a series of different types of "traditional" console and PC products.
There's a Sierra Online division, which we've just launched, that is aimed at the big - we feel - online opportunity that exists beyond the long-form online game that Blizzard Entertainment has exploited so well for experienced gamers. There are little experienced gamers and entirely new gamers, there are gamers that are interested in playing for an hour or an hour and a half, and there are those that are interested in playing for twenty minutes. That whole pool of opportunities - and we think there's a lot of money in that - is being addressed by this third division called Sierra Online.''
I find this very interesting, seeing the fact that TSL is an online game, basically, and Sierra Online is an online game developer/distributor and publisher. Just seems odd that they'd reinstate Sierra in this form, what with the rise of online Sierra games.
