World Opponent Network

[4][5] SIGS then moved onto beta testing integration into retail Sierra titles with Hoyle Blackjack in 1996.

[6] Before Christmas 1996, SIGS was built into 7 titles: Hoyle Blackjack, Hoyle Casino, Front Page Sports: Football Pro '97, Front Page Sports: Trophy Bass 2, MissionForce: CyberStorm, Power Chess, and The Time Warp of Dr.

On May 27, 1997, Sierra announced an agreement with Valve to publish and distribute Half-Life, which would bring it to WON when finally released in November 1998.

[19] On September 7, 1999, WON.net announced an agreement with Activision to bring a few of its multiplayer titles, including Soldier of Fortune, to WON.net.

[29] On March 29, 2000, Havas acquired PrizeCentral.com and merged it with WON.net, announced the creation of a new site to be called Flipside.com, and basically brought an end to the WON.net website as it was known.

[30][31] Regardless, WON.net continued on in various forms (primarily for WON-enabled games minus the Hoyle titles) including becoming action.WON.net for a period.

The last WON-enabled title launched (not multiplayer but has an online element to it) was Caesar IV in September 2006.

[33] Meanwhile, in 2001, Valve (which had a publishing and distribution agreement with Sierra) was secretly working on their own competing service, Steam.

[40] As of April 2023, WON2 is still operational with around 400 hundred players during peak hours, and the majority of the servers hosted in China.

[51][52] By May 2021, NuWON had listed 21 supported games (not counting Half-Life mods) plus an additional 8 that needed testing.

[53] The last news post from NuWON's developer was in December 2021 (regarding working on a move to Linux) and the site disappeared in 2022.

Second logo for the Sierra Internet Gaming System (SIGS logo with text underneath)
Second SIGS logo
A screenshot of the WON.net interface and available servers in the game Counter-Strike
WON.net interface in Counter-Strike