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 '''Sierra''' is a video game company founded by Ken and Roberta Williams.
-The company built its reputation as a company for excellent graphic adventures beginning in the early 1980s, and continued until it was purchased by Vivendi Universal (now known as Vivendi SA) in the late 1990s. Sierra now only exists as a label - as the entire Sierra staff was laid off and the Sierra building was closed. It is doubtful that Vivendi will produce any more adventure games.
+The company built its reputation as a company for excellent graphic adventures beginning in the early 1980s, and continued even after it was sold to [[CUC Software International|CUC International]] in 1996.  In December 1997, CUC International merged with HFS Incorporated to become the Cedant Corporation.  After the Cedant book cooking scandal in 1998, Sierra was sold to Havas S.A, which was purchased by Vivendi (renamed Vivendi Universal in 2000 and now known as Vivendi SA) the same year.  Sierra stopped producing adventure games in 1999.  Vivendi merged with [[Activision]] (forming Activision-Blizzard) in 2008, and the entire Sierra staff was laid off and the Sierra building was closed. Sierra now only exists as a label.
 The adventure games created with Sierra's [[AGI|Adventure Game Interpreter]] (and its predecessors) are implemented in ScummVM using the code base from the Sarien and [http://trollvm.sourceforge.net/ TrollVM] projects. The adventure games created with [[SCI|Sierra's Creative Interpreter]] are implemented in ScummVM using the code base from the [[SCI/FreeSCI|FreeSCI]] project. All of them were done with permission obtained from the original authors of those projects.