Industry

Digital content

1993 (1993)

1998 (1998)

Acquired by The Walt Disney Company, 1998

Disney[edit]

The company merged with Infoseek and was later sold to The Walt Disney Company. In April 1998, Disney purchased the outstanding shares of Starwave from Allen[5][6] after an initial buy of about 30% in 1997.[1] The new entity, Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) developed the Go.com portal.


In 2004, Disney re-activated the Starwave identity as Starwave Mobile, which published casual games for mobile phones.[7] They published several Scarface licensed games including Scarface: Money. Power. Respect. and games from Capybara Games including Critter Crunch.

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Starwave in Disneyland | Salon

List of Former Starwave Employees

Starwavers

by Patrick Naughton, who left Sun for Starwave

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