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December 13, 2007

Goodbye, Left Behind Games

Ted Olsen

The much-criticized videogame company has a new board of directors and now has a new name, Inspired Media Entertainment. It's the second name change for the company, which used to be Bonanza Gold, Inc.

It also has a new deal with Tyndale House Publishers. "The company's Left Behind license term and fees, due December 31, 2007, of $250,000, has been reduced to smaller payments of $21,000 each quarter for the next three years," the company said in the same filing that announced its intent for the name change.

The company saw a bit of additional bad press in October when it threatened critical bloggers with legal action. But the company seems to have dropped that campaign.

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I followed the link to the article about "threatened critical bloggers with legal action." It was the best and most encouraging news I've read in quite a while! God's people will be far healthier once we've expelled this rotten tripe from our system, into the sewer of various cultic fads that have disgraced the name of Christ in days past.

Posted By: tom smedley | December 17, 2007 2:53 PM

IME/LBG is a company and they have every right to protect their products from slanderous/libelous claims, such as those made about "Eternal Forces." Every blogger that came forward as having received the company's letter had claimed that the game involved killing non-believers. IME/LBG really should've gone after these people (particularly the Talk To Action website) earlier and more aggressively.

Posted By: Jason | January 6, 2008 12:17 AM