As of Thursday, August 26, it appears as though Acclaim is over and done for the second time. The company (then called Acclaim Entertainment) died once before in 2004 only to return as online game company Acclaim Games in 2004, which was acquired by Playdom in May 2010.
Playdom, you may recall, wound up on Disney Interactive's "companies we acquired" list just last month. Based on a farewell message on Acclaim Games' site, it appears that the company didn't survive the move.
We've put out a request for comment from Disney Interactive and from Acclaim to determine if the acquisition is what caused the closure -- or if Acclaim's end was a long time coming. Players of Acclaim's martial arts massively multiplayer online game, 9Dragons. will be relieved to hear that the game is still kicking -- operations transferred to GamersFirst three days ago.
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Acclaim Games [via Gamasutra]
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