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Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020)

Sierra was one of the biggest game publishers of the 90s. Then they got an offer that was way too good to be true, but too good to decline.

"What turns him on is watching the stock price go up,” said Silverman’s long-time colleague Steve Holmes.Not enough to sell his company—HFS, an owner and licensor of hotel, real estate and car rental brands like Days Inn, Ramada and Avis—when Forbes asked, but he did agree to merge their businesses. “I felt like they would just love it to pick me up and boot me out if they could.”Cendant wanted Mask of Eternity out by Christmas, and as that deadline grew increasingly close and unachievable, Ken and Roberta took that moment to point out that, despite repeated requests on her part, she had not signed a contract, and would walk away and publicly disavow the game if she were not brought back into the fold with a meaningful role. He transferred all his property into his wife’s name and killed a few years developing and playing on golf courses until he, with Kirk Shelton, was charged with accounting and securities fraud.Silverman, minus hair, weight, and $800 million of his net worth, was left reigning over a house of cards on fire.“I’m consumed,” he said, “by blind rage.”In January 1997, Bob Davidson, weeks after successfully asserting that he and he alone ran CUC Software, quit the company.

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