IEntertainment Network

{{Short description|American video game company}}

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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.{{cite magazine|date=September 1996|title=Interactive Magic|magazine=Next Generation|publisher=Imagine Media|issue=21|pages=109–110}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://retrocdn.net/images/6/60/NextGeneration_US_21.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402005738/https://retrocdn.net/images/6/60/NextGeneration_US_21.pdf|title=An interview with Wild Bill Stealey|magazine=Next Generation|page=113|archivedate=April 2, 2016|date=September 1996|accessdate=December 28, 2023}} 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.