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Interplay Entertainment develops, publishes, and distributes interactive entertainment software for PCs and gaming systems such as Sony's PlayStation and the Nintendo 64. The company's games include Descent, Fallout, Stonekeep, Battle Chess, and Virtual Pool. It has about 40 games in development. Interplay licenses properties such as Star Trek, Caesars Palace, and Major League Baseball for use in its games, and it intends to publish titles by third-party software developers. Interplay sells its products worldwide through direct sales, third-party distributors, and its Interplay OEM subsidiary. The company also receives royalties from Web sites that provide its games online.
Scheduled to IPO the week of 6/1/98.
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