Interplay Entertainment Corp (IPLY)

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I took a tiny 100,000 share position in IPLY. Mostly on the off chance the company starts to do something, gets bought out, or makes a strategic partnership with a streaming giant for the IP. I might buy more if I see a reasonably close release date for "Kingpin:Reloaded".

I'd still like to see IPLY get a website up and running, if for no other reason than to highlight the stuff they have going on now.

The games could be updated like "Kingpin:Reloaded" and useful for something like Amazon's new gaming service. The games are old enough not to need much resources to run and should operate well over the internet. Or, the gaming IP could be the backstop for animated series, like Japanese anime does.

Netflix is starting their own animation studio and might want to own some content. They haven't shied away from not-for-kids-animated series. I've binged watched both "Castlevania" and "Dragon's Dogma" on Netflix, which would need severe editing to be on American broadcast TV. "Sacrifice", "MDK", and/or "Kingpin" could make nice animated series.

COVID has slowed down live-action productions. It looks like Netflix might set American animation to be more like Japanese anime , stuff made for any age, not just kids.