Stradling served as legal advisor to inXile Entertainment Inc., a role-playing video game developer, in connection with its acquisition by Microsoft Corp. The acquisition will aid in Microsoft’s quest to become the “Netflix of video game streaming and original content.” Financial terms of this transaction were not disclosed. Prior to lauching inXile in 2002, its founder, Brian Fargo, was the founder of Interplay, a historically important developer and publisher, which launched many of the most critically lauded and popular video game franchises of all-time, including Fallout, Wasteland, The Bard’s Tale, Baldur’s Gate, and Planescape: Torment, and fostered amazing talent that led to such companies as Blizzard Entertainment, Obsidian, and BioWare.
InXile Entertainment was represented by shareholders Chris Ivey, Jeff Estes and associate Matthew Brodsky.