Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 05:34:11 09/30/00
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On September 29, 2000 at 14:40:18, John Merlino wrote: >On September 29, 2000 at 12:51:19, dennis burke wrote: > >>Mattel is selling The Learning Company. Mindscape is part of this sale. I do't >>believe we will see another release from Chessmaster for a long time. Any >>thoughts? > >Your are incorrect on all counts. > >Mattel has already sold The Learning Company to Gores Technology Group, which is >(in)famous for turning around troubled tech companies (such as The Learning >Company). > >Mindscape, as a company, no longer exists; it is now just a brand name that The >Learning Company uses, along with Red Orb, SSI, Broderbund, PF Magic and others >(which all USED to be companies, but were bought/absorbed by The Learning >Company). > >However, the Chessmaster development team is still on schedule to ship their >product in a few weeks, meaning that it will arrive in the stores in early >November. Gores has no reason not to ship a product that has already been in >Beta for a month. So the Beta testers should get their copy around this time? Anyway, good luck with the development, and its nice to see Chessmaster is putting some SERIOUS chess features in. JW > >jm
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