GamersInfo.net has the latest chapter in the quite storied history of Horizons: Empire of Istaria, offering an article-format Q&A with Rick Simmons of Virtrium, LLC, who have purchased the MMORPG. The game, originally designed by David Allen before costing him his job (story) and developed by Artifact Entertainment before bankrupting that developer (story), was sold to Tulga Games in early 2005 (story). Tulga promised to expand the game (story) before proceeding to not do that or much of anything else. It was just a few months later that the game, which would be called a journeyman at this point were it an athlete, was purchased by EI Interactive (story), and like the prior sale, inspired promises that improvements would be made going forward, but over the course of a year EI's two major changes were the implementation of a new insecure billing method and the closing of the game's test realm. Back to the current transaction, interestingly, this is the second sale of the game that involved previous principals, as Tulga included both Chris Tulumello and David Bowman of Artifact Entertainment and Virtrium's Rick Simmons (a name you will recall from back in the old days of the first sentence from this story) was previously with Tulga. As with each of the game's previous transitions, improvements are promised this time around, but there are already tangible results, including the return of the test server and the implementation of a new billing method.