Peripheral news:Interactive Magic Joins Forces With America Online
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1998--"...Interactive Magic (NASDAQ:IMGK - news), developer and publisher of award-winning Internet, online and CD-ROM games, announced it has entered into a relationship with America Online, the world leader in interactive services and content, that will provide AOL with new, exclusive online games developed by iMagic Online. Raider Wars(tm) will be the first in a series of Interactive Magic(R) titles to be launched on America Online (AOL keyword: Games).
''America Online has an audience of 13 million members and we are very pleased to have a distribution partnership with them. This is a significant step towards achieving the corporate goals we have set for expanding distribution of games developed by iMagic Online,'' said Interactive Magic Chairman ''Wild Bill'' Stealey.
Interactive Magic(R) Inc. (Nasdaq: IMGK - news) is based in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina and is dedicated to developing and producing high quality Internet, online and PC CD-ROM games. Interactive Magic owns iMagic Online(sm) , a pay-for-play online service with customers from more than 70 countries, and iMagic Labs(tm), our internal development house. Interactive Magic's PC CD-ROM titles are marketed and distributed through more than 15,000 foreign and domestic software outlets. Interactive Magic has strategic or OEM/bundling arrangements with numerous companies including Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news), America Online (NYSE: AOL - news), Columbia House, Software-Of-The-Month Club, Diamond Multimedia (Nasdaq: DIMD - news), Thrustmaster (Nasdaq: TMSR - news), Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGIY - news), Enlight Software and Topware Interactive..."
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