Cyberlore

Cyberlore Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Northampton, Massachusetts.^[3]

Cyberlore Studios, Inc.

Industry	Video games
Founded	October 1992[1]
Defunct	2005
Headquarters	Northampton, Massachusetts , United States
Key people	Lester Humphreys Ken Grey Herb Perez
Products	Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
Number of employees	28 (1998)[2]
Website	cyberlore.com

History

The company was founded in 1992 by Lester Humphreys, Ken Grey, and Herb Perez.^[4] Since 1992, they produced expansion packs for MechWarrior 4, Heroes of Might and Magic II, and Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal. They also produced Playboy: The Mansion (2005), a simulation game based on the life of Hugh Hefner and Playboy, and a PlayStation 2 version of the classic board game Risk. Their most notable game is Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, whose original concept was created by Jim DuBois, who worked for the company as a senior designer.

The company grew from six employees in 1992 to thirty employees in 2000.^[5]

In 2005, Cyberlore ceased development of general entertainment games after the collapse of their publisher, Hip Games, and the subsequent layoff of two-thirds of their staff. The company refocused on the serious game corporate training market, under the new company name of Minerva Software.

Published games

• Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse (1994)
• Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall (1995)
• Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal (1996)
• Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty (1997)
• Deadlock II: Shrine Wars (1998)
• Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim (2000)
• Majesty: The Northern Expansion (2001)
• MechWarrior 4: Black Knight (2001)
• MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries (2002)
• Risk: Global Domination (2003)
• Playboy: The Mansion (2005)