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Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff. "LOOKING GLASS CLOSING, LAYING OFF 60 WORKERS FAILED DEAL DOOMS CAMBRIDGE GAME DEVELOPER." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times Company. 2000. HighBeam Research. 29 Mar. 2015 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff. "LOOKING GLASS CLOSING, LAYING OFF 60 WORKERS FAILED DEAL DOOMS CAMBRIDGE GAME DEVELOPER." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). 2000. HighBeam Research. (March 29, 2015). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8603067.html
Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff. "LOOKING GLASS CLOSING, LAYING OFF 60 WORKERS FAILED DEAL DOOMS CAMBRIDGE GAME DEVELOPER." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times Company. 2000. Retrieved March 29, 2015 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8603067.html
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Just weeks after releasing its newest computer game, Cambridge- based Looking Glass Studios is closing its doors and laying off its 60 employees.
Company founder Paul Neurath yesterday said the collapse of the company was sealed this week when leading game distributor Eidos Interactive backed out of a plan to acquire Looking Glass.
"We ran out of money," said Neurath. "We exhausted all our options."
Looking Glass produced the popular System Shock series of action games as well as the Flight Unlimited series of flight-simulation games. The company's most successful title was the adventure game "Thief: The Dark Project," which sold half a million copies worldwide.
The sequel, "Thief 2," went on sale at the end of March. …
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