Overview
Total Entertainment Network (TEN) is the premier interactive entertainment network for game playing consumers. With online rights to over 25 different premiere titles by industry leading game publishers -- over half of which are TEN exclusives -- TEN offers rankings, tournaments, hints, tips, chat, and more.
TEN has been pioneering Internet gaming technologies for over six years. This innovative platform is now heralded by developers as the best and easiest way to make their games playable on the Internet. As a result, the following major publishers are currently partnering with TEN: 3D Realms, Apogee, Accolade, Blizzard, Eidos Interactive, id Software, MicroProse, Spectrum Holobyte, SSI, and Westwood Studios.
Total Entertainment Network, based in San Francisco, was formed from the merger of Outland, Inc. and Planet Optigon, Inc. -- two companies which have been developing online technologies and communities for the last 12 years. TEN received its initial funding in June 1995 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. Other investors include Ameritech; Goldman Sachs; Robertson, Stephens & Company; Vertex Management; and Wasserstein Perella Ventures. Software Creations, the #1 rated BBS in the country, is a subsidiary of TEN.
