So Interplay is alive after all.

TigerRaptor · Post by **TigerRaptor** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:35 pm

Well so much for them staying dead.

http://www.interplay.com

Thenior · Post by **Thenior** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:03 pm

about 6 months ago I read about them...

The website said they owed a ton of money, and currently had only two unpaid employess.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:05 pm

They filed this notice of inability to file documents today.

Herve Caen's phone number is right there in the filing.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:06 pm

As of last quarter, it appears they have $547,000 in assets and $17,500,000 in liabilities.

Ouch.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:07 pm

They made $3 million over the past fiscal year, however.

Palzon · Post by **Palzon** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:09 pm

cool only 14.5 million in the red

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:14 pm

Heh. They're claiming to be developing MMO titles with Steam-style game download and interface. Pretty ambitious for a company that's broke.

oh and check thisout.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:06 pm

punisher wrote:Heh. They're claiming to be developing MMO titles with Steam-style game download and interface. Pretty ambitious for a company that's broke.

oh and check thisout.

Huh? Interplay serving up D3 help? What's this world coming to?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:38 pm

Iceman wrote: Huh? Interplay serving up D3 help? What's this world coming to?

Uh.. another over inflated Stock exchange?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:44 pm

I like the mspaint logo, nice touch.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:59 pm

Krom wrote:I like the mspaint logo, nice touch.

++

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:36 pm

Old Yeller is still croaking THIS LONG? Damn got any more bullets left in that piss-weak shotgun to finish off the job?

Just DIE ALREADY!!!!!

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:26 am

Doesn't anyone else enjoy rooting for the underdog?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:15 am

Didn't we figure out that this site was most likely fake a few months ago?

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:43 am

Just find out the site owner:

Registrant:
INTERPLAY ENTERTAINMENT CORP.
100 N. Crescent Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
US

Domain Name: INTERPLAY.COM

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
Technology, Information
hostmaster@iply.com
100 N. Crescent Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
US
Phone: +1-123-555-1234
Fax: 800-555-1212

Record expires on 13-Dec-2006
Record created on 14-Dec-1993
Database last updated on 24-Oct-2005

Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS

NS61.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.228.33
NS62.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.225.202

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:34 am

Top Gun wrote:Didn't we figure out that this site was most likely fake a few months ago?

I never heard that. Where did you hear it?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:35 am

TG: no, the site is very real. After all, it's just a few links to their SEC filings and an email address for "investor relations".

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:44 am

punisher wrote:
Top Gun wrote:Didn't we figure out that this site was most likely fake a few months ago?
I never heard that. Where did you hear it?

Someone suggested it in a similar thread a few months ago; I can't remember who. That person was of the opinion that whoever had done so had changed the frontend of the site (or some equivalent technical term which I didn't understand

). I mean, it could very well be legit, but it makes absolutely no sense for any company to put up a website looking like that, even one in as dire straits as Interplay is. If it was legit, why didn't they just put back their old corporate site, or some other version of it?

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:47 pm

That site is for the creditors and receivers, nothing more I suspect. We did a similar thing for an energy company in New York when they went belly up.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:51 pm

TG: Bandwidth. When you're broke and you need a website, why would you spend tons on bandwidth for lots of images when plain text does fine?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:02 pm

I can understand that, but with the small amount of traffic they're most likely getting, I would expect them to at least be able to spare a few images that don't look like they were made by a 5-year-old in MSPaint.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:36 pm

DCrazy wrote:TG: Bandwidth. When you're broke and you need a website, why would you spend tons on bandwidth for lots of images when plain text does fine?

I wonder how much you pay for bandwidth.

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:54 pm

I'm getting this: "No web site is configured at this address."

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:54 pm

Tricord: Replace "bandwidth" with "data transfer". That better? IPLY probably no longer owns the server running their website, and if they do it's sitting on some crappy connection.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:22 am

I mean, bandwidth or datatransfer or however you want to call it, is relatively cheap. It is certainly not what brought them down financially, and I'm sure it's the least of their worries right now if they are indeed trying to work something out.