IEntertainment Network explained

IEntertainment Network
Founded:	1995
Num Employees:	19^[1]
Num Employees Year:	2001

IEntertainment Network (IENT, stylized as iEntertainment Network and formerly known as Interactive Magic, iMagic, and iMagiconline) is an American video game company founded by Bill Stealey, the co-founder and former CEO of MicroProse Software, in 1995.^[2] It is chiefly a developer and publisher of simulation computer games.

The company was noted for hiring many industry outsiders, i.e. skilled software engineers with no prior experience in making games.^[3] Interactive Magic went public in 1998 and was sold to a venture capitalist in 1999, when Bill Stealey left the company; Stealey returned in the early 2000s.

Games published

• Air Warrior II
• Air Warrior III,
• ,^[4]
• Apache
• Capitalism
• Fallen Haven, Hind,
• IPanzer '44
• iF-22
• iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter
• iM1A2 Abrams
• Industry Giant
• Liberation Day
• Seven Kingdoms
• Spearhead
• Star Rangers
• Semper Fi
• The Great Battles (series)
• Thunder Brigade
• Vangers
• War Inc.
• WarBirds (series)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christina. Dyrness. Wild Bill Stealey getting back in the saddle. https://web.archive.org/web/20231228005023/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-and-observer/137511954/. The News & Observer. 46. December 28, 2023. December 19, 2001. December 28, 2023. Newspapers.com.
2. September 1996. Interactive Magic. Next Generation. Imagine Media. 21. 109–110.
3. Web site: An interview with Wild Bill Stealey. https://web.archive.org/web/20160402005738/https://retrocdn.net/images/6/60/NextGeneration_US_21.pdf. Next Generation. 113. April 2, 2016. September 1996. December 28, 2023.
4. October 1996. American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox. Next Generation. Imagine Media. 22. 176.