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| | Epyx lays off 80% of staff, changes focus Newsbytes News Network - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | EPYX LAYS OFF 80% OF STAFF, CHANGES FOCUS REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 SEP 15 (NB) -- Some 80 employees were laid off in a major staff reduction and change in company focus at Epyx, a developer of entertainment software, today. |
 | | Epyx, which designed and developed the Atari Lynx and will continue to develop games for the hand-held machine, is changing its focus from a publisher of entertainment software to a developer of video games, spokeswoman Noreen LoVoi tells Newsbytes. |
 | | She says Epyx has bit hit hard "in a slow and very difficult year in the computer entertainment pipeline," a year in which Nintendo has taken "the lion's share," of the dollars, and making matters worse, consumer interest has switched from games for low-end machines, such as the C64, to games for PCs. |
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