SIERRA STUDIOS™ SIGNS FORMER IGUANA STARS FOR MULTI-PRODUCT CONSOLE DEAL WITH NEWLY FORMED INEVITABLE ENTERTAINMENT

Bellevue, WA (May 10, 2000) - Sierra Studios™, a member of the Sierra On-Line family, today announced a strategic partnership with Austin, Texas-based Inevitable Entertainment, Inc. to develop console games for Sierra Studios. This marks the division's significant foray into the console arena and the first in a series of principal relationships with experts in console development for Sierra Studios.

The recently created Inevitable Entertainment is a new alliance from three of the top vice-presidents from Iguana, Acclaim's powerhouse Austin-based development team. With a combined 30 years experience in the video game industry and over five years at Iguana, Russell Byrd, Cyrus Lum, and Craig Galley will be ramping up their new teams in the coming months to deliver exceptional console gaming experiences for Sierra Studios. The impressive credits from this team include best-selling titles Turok, All Star Baseball, the South Park series, and Quarterback Club.

The multi-product slate of console games charges Inevitable to produce state of the art console specific titles using Sierra's intellectual properties as well as developing Inevitable's own intellectual properties for the next generation console systems.

"This team's depth of experience and success with console developing is truly the recipe for Sierra to expand into the console arena," said Mark Hood, senior vice-president for Sierra Studios. "We are thrilled to be working with the talent and pedigree Inevitable brings to the table."

"Sierra Studios has had phenomenal success in the PC market and extraordinarily successful franchises - this partnership is key to launching Inevitable for us," said Russell Byrd, general manager of Inevitable Entertainment.

Sierra On-Line, Inc. http://www.sierra.com/ is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra is a division of Havas Interactive, a global leader in interactive content, and is one of the world's largest publishers of education, entertainment and home productivity software. Its divisions, Blizzard®, Coktel, Knowledge Adventure®, Sierra™ and Flipside.com™ are famous for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning titles. Havas has operations in the US and in Europe and is a subsidiary of the French publishing house Havas, part of Vivendi Communications.