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Myst Developer Goes to the Wall

September 6th, 2005

Those of you who were around at the dawn of the PC gaming age will remember the Myst games fondly. The series of graphical adventures may not have stood the test of time with their fixed perspective viewpoint and linear gameplay, but at the time they were hailed as triumphs and sales were appropriately high. Myst is the second biggest selling game of all time - yes, more than Doom or Quake - beaten only by The Sims.

However, Cyan, the developers behind the Myst series have closed their doors and laid off all staff, with the exception of Rand Miller, the co-founder and president Tony Fryman. Presumably they are staying on to oversee the release of the final Myst game, End of Ages, which is due out this month.

Cyan was hit hard by the failure of its MUD project, Uru, and falling sales for later installments in the Myst series which did not capture the imagination in the same way they did in the early 1990s.

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