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	Title: Info-Gone!
	Source: Zzap!64, #53
	Date: September 1989
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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Award-winning adventure specialists *Infocom*, after many years
of loss-making, are to lose their offices.

The American company, producers of a clutch of critically
acclaimed titles including **Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy**
and the **Zork** series, will be relocated inside their parent company
*Mediagenic*'s complex, situated at Menlo Park, California, resulting
in the possible loss of around ten members of staff out of 24.

The move follows Mediagenic's realisation of the importance
of profitability in a US games marketplace which has had more
than its fair share of headaches in the past year. *Rob Sears*, General
Manager of Infocom, unhappy with the demise of his Massachussetts site,
exclaimed, 'It's sad that we can't continue to do the things
in our own way.' However, he praised the relationship between
Infocom and Mediagenic, saying, 'If we didn't have them behind
us, we probably couldn't continue at all.'

Marketing Manager for Mediagenic UK, *Larry Sparks*, dismissed
fears of a parting of companies, explaining that the move 'can
only improve our communications and operational activities.

<img style="max-width: 50%; display: block; margin: auto;" src="/public/img/articles/zzap64-info-gone/infocom-logo.jpg" alt="Infocom logo on a blue background">
