Virgin Interactive to Buy Company’s Games

Virgin Interactive Entertainment, a video game and entertainment software company based in Orange County, said Monday that it has agreed to buy multimedia computer games from a financially troubled Northern California company.

Terms of Virgin’s acquisition of the software titles division of Media Vision of Fremont were not disclosed, a spokeswoman said.

Under the agreement, Virgin will obtain several popular games for CD-ROM-equipped personal computers, including the popular “Critical Path” futuristic adventure. The games combine motion pictures and animation. It also will get several games under development.

The agreement allows Media Vision, which is in bankruptcy proceedings, to concentrate on making sound cards and other hardware for computers.

Virgin in Irvine is a division of Spelling Entertainment Group Inc. of Los Angeles, which closed Monday at $12 a share, up 12 cents, in New York Stock Exchange trading. Media Vision closed at 22 cents a share, up 9 cents in trading on the Nasdaq.