Magnet Interactive Studios was a software development company based in Georgetown. Founded in 1989 by designer Greg Johnson as a print and 3D design firm and later joined by businessman Basel Dalloul, the company saw a short-lived software and video game business in the mid-1990s as a subsidiary of the Magnet Interactive Group holding company. The studio was shut down in 1996 after demand dropped due to the advent of the Internet, firing its employees. Only Magnet Interactive Communications, a web development company and separate subsidiary, remained operational. The company had five divisions, action and role-playing video games, business applications, edutainment and children's games, interactive story and strategy, and the advanced products group. Among the video games developed by the studio are Beyond the Wall: Stories Behind the Vietnam Wall (1995), Icebreaker (1995), a strategy and action game, and Chop Suey (1995), a point-and-click adventure. They were developing a space video game called Bluestar, planned for release in November 1995, and Hellraiser: Virtual Hell, a game based on the Hellraiser franchise planned for release in early 1996, but they were both cancelled upon the studio's shutdown.