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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 10-Q

 

(Mark One)

¨   QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2003

 

OR

 

x   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from December 2, 2002 to March 31, 2003

 

Commission File Number 0-16986

 


 

ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

(Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

38-2698904

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

One Acclaim Plaza, Glen Cove, New York

 

11542

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

(516) 656-5000

(Registrant’s telephone number)

 


 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

None

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

 

Title of Each Class


 

Name of Each Exchange on

Which Registered


Common Stock, par value $0.02 per share

 

Nasdaq Small-Cap Market

 


 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.  Yes  x  No  ¨

 

As of May 14, 2003, 96,620,858 shares of common stock of the registrant were issued and outstanding.

 



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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

 

FORM 10-Q QUARTERLY REPORT

 

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Page No.


PART I

    

1

Item 1.

  

Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited, except where otherwise noted)

    

1

    

Consolidated Balance Sheets—March 31, 2003, August 31, 2002 (Audited) and December 29, 2002

    

3

    

Consolidated Statements of Operations—Three and seven months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002 and one month ended December 29, 2002

    

4

    

Consolidated Statements of Stockholder’s Equity (Deficit)—Seven months ended March 31, 2003 and Year ended August 31, 2002 (Audited)

    

5

    

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows—Seven months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002

    

6

    

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

    

7

Item 2.

  

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

    

8

Item 3.

  

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

    

9

Item 4 

  

Controls and Procedures

    

10

PART II

    

11

Item 1.

  

Legal Proceedings

    

12

Item 6.

  

Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K

    

13

 

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PART I

 

Item 1.    Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited, except where otherwise noted)

 

ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except per share data)

 

    

March 31, 2003


    

December 29, 2002


    

August 31, 2002


 
    

 

(Unaudited

)

  

 

(Unaudited

)

        

Assets

                          

Current Assets

                          

Cash and cash equivalents

  

$

4,495

 

  

 

9,108

 

  

$

51,004

 

Accounts receivable, net

  

 

24,303

 

  

 

43,085

 

  

 

65,660

 

Other receivables

  

 

3,360

 

  

 

3,458

 

  

 

2,685

 

Inventories

  

 

7,711

 

  

 

12,340

 

  

 

9,634

 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

  

 

7,076

 

  

 

3,951

 

  

 

6,420

 

Capitalized software development costs, net

  

 

6,944

 

  

 

14,329

 

  

 

13,257

 

Building held for sale

  

 

5,424

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

    


  


  


Total Current Assets

  

 

59,313

 

  

 

86,271

 

  

 

148,660

 

Fixed assets, net

  

 

19,731

 

  

 

29,332

 

  

 

30,760

 

Capitalized software development costs

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

1,813

 

Other assets

  

 

893

 

  

 

1,410

 

  

 

1,662

 

    


  


  


Total Assets

  

$

79,937

 

  

$

117,013

 

  

$

182,895

 

    


  


  


Liabilities and Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity

                          

Current Liabilities

                          

Short-term borrowings

  

$

30,799

 

  

 

26,403

 

  

$

54,508

 

Trade accounts payable

  

 

28,477

 

  

 

28,562

 

  

 

40,151

 

Accrued expenses

  

 

28,751

 

  

 

27,469

 

  

 

44,828

 

Accrued selling expenses

  

 

26,649

 

  

 

24,780

 

  

 

14,945

 

Accrued restructuring charges

  

 

2,299

 

  

 

4,081

 

  

 

—  

 

Mortgage payable

  

 

4,600

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

Income taxes payable

  

 

1,234

 

  

 

1,440

 

  

 

1,515

 

    


  


  


Total Current Liabilities

  

 

122,809

 

  

 

112,735

 

  

 

155,947

 

Long-Term Liabilities

                          

Long-term debt

  

 

632

 

  

 

4,645

 

  

 

4,737

 

Other long-term liabilities

  

 

2,654

 

  

 

2,654

 

  

 

2,856

 

    


  


  


Total Liabilities

  

 

126,095

 

  

 

120,034

 

  

 

163,540

 

    


  


  


Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity

                          

Preferred stock, $0.01 par value; 1,000 shares authorized; none issued

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

Common stock, $0.02 par value; 200,000 shares authorized, 96,621, 92,611 and 92,471 shares issued and outstanding

  

 

1,932

 

  

 

1,852

 

  

 

1,849

 

Additional paid-in capital

  

 

313,616

 

  

 

311,577

 

  

 

311,458

 

Accumulated deficit

  

 

(359,911

)

  

 

(314,931

)

  

 

(292,106

)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

  

 

(1,795

)

  

 

(1,519

)

  

 

(1,846

)

    


  


  


Total Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity

  

 

(46,158

)

  

 

(3,021

)

  

 

19,355

 

    


  


  


Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity

  

$

79,937

 

  

$

117,013

 

  

$

182,895

 

    


  


  


 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

 

 

    

Three Months Ended


    

Seven Months Ended


    

Month Ended


 
    

March 31, 2003


    

March 31, 2002


    

March 31, 2003


    

March 31, 2002


    

December 29, 2002


 

Net revenue

  

$

27,960

 

  

$

66,820

 

  

$

101,589

 

  

$

160,188

 

  

$

10,487

 

Cost of revenue

  

 

37,522

 

  

 

28,897

 

  

 

76,507

 

  

 

62,891

 

  

 

6,284

 

    


  


  


  


  


Gross (loss) profit

  

 

(9,562

)

  

 

37,923

 

  

 

25,082

 

  

 

97,297

 

  

 

4,203

 

    


  


  


  


  


Operating expenses

                                            

Marketing and selling

  

 

9,613

 

  

 

11,787

 

  

 

32,295

 

  

 

30,132

 

  

 

2,547

 

General and administrative

  

 

10,868

 

  

 

10,669

 

  

 

24,549

 

  

 

25,165

 

  

 

3,036

 

Research and development

  

 

11,016

 

  

 

8,984

 

  

 

25,392

 

  

 

23,133

 

  

 

2,672

 

Restructuring charges

  

 

324

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

4,824

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

4,500

 

Impairment on building held for sale

  

 

2,146

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,146

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

    


  


  


  


  


Total operating expenses

  

 

33,967

 

  

 

31,440

 

  

 

89,206

 

  

 

78,430

 

  

 

12,755

 

    


  


  


  


  


(Loss) earnings from operations

  

 

(43,529

)

  

 

6,483

 

  

 

(64,124

)

  

 

18,867

 

  

 

(8,552

)

    


  


  


  


  


Other income (expense)

                                            

Interest expense, net

  

 

(1,936

)

  

 

(1,669

)

  

 

(4,073

)

  

 

(5,301

)

  

 

(495

)

Loss on early retirement of debt

  

 

—  

 

  

 

(1,221

)

  

 

—  

 

  

 

(1,221

)

  

 

—  

 

Other income (expense)

  

 

423

 

  

 

(31

)

  

 

201

 

  

 

(843

)

  

 

92

 

    


  


  


  


  


Total other expense

  

 

(1,513

)

  

 

(2,921

)

  

 

(3,872

)

  

 

(7,365

)

  

 

(403

)

    


  


  


  


  


(Loss) earnings before income taxes

  

 

(45,042

)

  

 

3,562

 

  

 

(67,996

)

  

 

11,502

 

  

 

(8,955

)

Income tax (benefit) provision

  

 

(62

)

  

 

(808

)

  

 

(191

)

  

 

(944

)

  

 

(1

)

    


  


  


  


  


Net (loss) earnings

  

$

(44,980

)

  

$

4,370

 

  

$

(67,805

)

  

$

12,446

 

  

$

(8,954

)

    


  


  


  


  


Net (loss) earnings per share data:

                                            

Basic

  

$

(0.49

)

  

$

0.05

 

  

$

(0.73

)

  

$

0.15

 

  

$

(0.10

)

    


  


  


  


  


Diluted

  

$

(0.49

)

  

$

0.05

 

  

$

(0.73

)

  

$

0.14

 

  

$

(0.10

)

    


  


  


  


  


 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)

(In thousands)

 

 

    

Preferred Stock Issued


  

Common Stock Issued


    

Additional Paid-In Capital


    

Notes Receivable


 
       

Shares


    

Amount


       

Balance at August 31, 2001

  

$

    —  

  

77,279

 

  

$

1,546

 

  

$

271,031

 

  

$

(3,595

)

Net loss

  

 

—  

  

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

Issuances of common stock in private placement

  

 

—  

  

7,167

 

  

 

143

 

  

 

19,642

 

  

 

—  

 

Issuances of common stock for exercises of warrants by executive officers

  

 

—  

  

1,125

 

  

 

23

 

  

 

3,352

 

  

 

(3,352

)

Issuances of common stock in connection with note retirements and conversions

  

 

—  

  

5,039

 

  

 

101

 

  

 

18,729

 

  

 

—  

 

Exercise of stock options and warrants

  

 

—  

  

2,071

 

  

 

41

 

  

 

4,662

 

  

 

—  

 

Cancellations of common stock

  

 

—  

  

(551

)

  

 

(11

)

  

 

11

 

  

 

—  

 

Warrants issued and other non-cash charges in connection with supplemental bank loan

  

 

—  

  

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

732

 

  

 

—  

 

Expenses incurred in connection with issuances of common stock

  

 

—  

  

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

(287

)

  

 

—  

 

Issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan

  

 

—  

  

341

 

  

 

6

 

  

 

533

 

  

 

—  

 

Foreign currency translation loss

  

 

—  

  

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

    

  

  


  


  


Balance at August 31, 2002

  

$

—  

  

92,471

 

  

$

1,849

 

  

$

318,405

 

  

$

(6,947

)

Net loss

  

 

—  

  

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

Exercise of stock options and warrants

  

 

—  

  

10

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

11

 

  

 

—  

 

Issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan

  

 

—  

  

140

 

  

 

3

 

  

 

118

 

  

 

—  

 

Issuance of common stock to executive officers for providing collateral for credit agreement.

  

 

—  

  

4,000

 

  

 

80

 

  

 

1,480

 

  

 

—  

 

Warrants issued to executive officers for providing collateral for credit agreement

  

 

—  

  

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

305

 

  

 

—  

 

Warrant modification charges in connection with common stock issuance to executive officers

  

 

—  

  

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

165

 

  

 

—  

 

Stock option compensation

                         

 

79

 

  

 

—  

 

Foreign currency translation gain

  

 

—  

  

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

    

  

  


  


  


Balance at March 31, 2003

  

$

—  

  

96,621

 

  

$

1,932

 

  

$

320,563

 

  

$

(6,947

)

    

  

  


  


  



*   The amounts as of and for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 are unaudited.

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT) — (Continued)

(In thousands)

 

    

Accumulated Deficit


      

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss


    

Total


    

Comprehensive Income (loss)


 

Balance at August 31, 2001

  

 

(287,573

)

    

 

(1,764

)

  

 

(20,355

)

        

Net loss

  

 

(4,533

)

    

 

—  

 

  

 

(4,533

)

  

 

(4,533

)

Issuances of common stock in private placement

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

19,785

 

  

 

—  

 

Issuances of common stock for exercises of warrants by executive officers

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

23

 

  

 

—  

 

Issuances of common stock in connection with note retirements and conversions

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

18,830

 

  

 

—  

 

Exercise of stock options and warrants

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

4,703

 

  

 

—  

 

Cancellations of common stock

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

—  

 

Warrants issued and other non-cash charges in connection with supplemental bank loan

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

732

 

  

 

—  

 

Expenses incurred in connection with issuances of common stock

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

(287

)

  

 

—  

 

Issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

539

 

  

 

—  

 

Foreign currency translation loss

  

 

—  

 

    

 

(82

)

  

 

(82

)

  

 

(82

)

    


    


  


  


Balance at August 31, 2002

  

$

(292,106

)

    

$

(1,846

)

  

$

19,355

 

  

 

(4,615

)

                                 


Net loss

  

 

(67,805

)

    

 

—  

 

  

 

(67,805

)

  

 

(67,805

)

Exercise of stock options and warrants

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

11

 

        

Issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

121

 

        

Issuance of common stock to executive officers for providing collateral for credit agreement

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

1,560

 

        

Warrants issued to executive officers for providing collateral for credit agreement

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

305

 

        

Warrant modification charges in connection with common stock issuance to executive officers

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

165

 

        

Stock option compensation

  

 

—  

 

    

 

—  

 

  

 

79

 

        

Foreign currency translation gain

  

 

—  

 

    

 

51

 

  

 

51

 

  

 

51

 

    


    


  


  


Balance at March 31, 2003

  

$

(359,911

)

    

$

(1,795

)

  

$

(46,158

)

  

$

(67,754

)

    


    


  


  


 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)

 

    

Seven Months Ended
March 31,


 
    

2003


    

2002


 
    

(unaudited)

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

                 

Net (loss) earnings

  

$

(67,805

)

  

$

12,446

 

Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) earnings to net cash used in operating activities:

                 

Depreciation and amortization

  

 

4,124

 

  

 

4,868

 

Non-cash financing expense

  

 

756

 

  

 

895

 

Loss on early retirement of debt

  

 

—  

 

  

 

1,221

 

Provision for price concessions and returns, net

  

 

55,938

 

  

 

21,138

 

Amortization of capitalized software development costs

  

 

17,063

 

  

 

6,597

 

Write-off of capitalized software development costs

  

 

2,045

 

  

 

—  

 

Impairment charge on building held for sale

  

 

2,146

 

  

 

—  

 

Non-cash compensation expense

  

 

79

 

  

 

—  

 

Loss on fixed assets disposals

  

 

231

 

  

 

—  

 

Other non-cash items

  

 

14

 

  

 

(63

)

Change in operating assets and liabilities:

                 

Accounts receivable

  

 

8,125

 

  

 

(32,526

)

Other receivables

  

 

(1,532

)

  

 

(2,262

)

Other assets

  

 

300

 

  

 

(300

)

Inventories

  

 

2,367

 

  

 

(4,514

)

Prepaid expenses

  

 

891

 

  

 

(1,612

)

Capitalized software development costs

  

 

(10,872

)

  

 

(11,054

)

Accounts payable

  

 

(11,382

)

  

 

(7,869

)

Accrued expenses

  

 

(22,635

)

  

 

(6,128

)

Income taxes payable

  

 

(345

)

  

 

217

 

Other long-term liabilities

  

 

(202

)

  

 

(705

)

    


  


Net cash used in operating activities

  

 

(20,694

)

  

 

(19,651

)

    


  


Cash flows from investing activities:

                 

Acquisition of fixed assets

  

 

(733

)

  

 

(2,122

)

Proceeds front disposal of fixed assets

  

 

79

 

  

 

7

 

Other assets

  

 

31

 

  

 

(184

)

    


  


Net cash used in investing activities

  

 

(623

)

  

 

(2,299

)

    


  


 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (continued)

(In thousands)

 

    

Seven Months Ended March 31,


 
    

2003


    

2002


 

Cash flows from financing activities:

                 

Repayment of convertible note

  

 

—  

 

  

 

(12,190

)

Payment of mortgages

  

 

(483

)

  

 

(884

)

(Payment of) proceeds from short-term bank loans, net

  

 

(23,401

)

  

 

1,757

 

Proceeds from exercises of stock options and warrants

  

 

11

 

  

 

3,278

 

Payment of obligations under capital leases

  

 

(662

)

  

 

(263

)

Proceeds from issuances of common stock, net

  

 

—  

 

  

 

21,523

 

Proceeds from issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan

  

 

121

 

  

 

245

 

    


  


Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities

  

 

(24,414

)

  

 

13,466

 

    


  


Effect of exchange rate changes on cash

  

 

(778

)

  

 

(205

)

    


  


Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

  

 

(46,509

)

  

 

(8,689

)

    


  


Cash and cash equivalents: beginning of period

  

 

51,004

 

  

 

26,797

 

    


  


Cash and cash equivalents: end of period

  

$

4,495

 

  

$

18,108

 

    


  


Supplemental schedule of non cash investing and financing activities:

                 

Issuance of common stock for payment of convertible notes and related accrued interest

  

$

—  

 

  

$

13,309

 

Financing costs incurred from the issuance of common stock

  

$

1,560

 

  

$

—  

 

Financing costs incurred from the granting of warrants

  

$

305

 

  

$

—  

 

Acquisition of equipment under capital leases

  

$

262

 

  

$

280

 

Conversion of notes to common stock

  

$

—  

 

  

$

4,300

 

Cash paid during the period for:

                 

Interest

  

$

3,727

 

  

$

7,163

 

Income taxes

  

$

77

 

  

$

609

 

 

 

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(In thousands, expect per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

1. BUSINESS AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

A. Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively, “We” or “Acclaim”). These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and notes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all necessary adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, have been included in the accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto, which are included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 2002, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

B. Change in Fiscal Year

 

In January 2003, our Board of Directors approved a plan to change our fiscal year end from August 31 to March 31. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements include our results of operations for the three month quarter and the seven month fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. Fiscal year 2004 commenced on April 1, 2003 and will end on March 31, 2004. Our quarterly closing dates will occur on the Sunday closest to the last day of the calendar quarter, which encompasses the following quarter ending dates for fiscal 2004.

 

Quarter


  

Quarter End Date


First

  

June 29, 2003

Second

  

September 28, 2003

Third

  

December 28, 2003

Fourth

  

March 31, 2004

 

C. Business and Liquidity

 

We develop, publish, distribute and market video and computer game software on a worldwide basis under our brand name for popular interactive entertainment consoles, such as Sony’s PlayStation 2, Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance and GameCube, and Microsoft’s Xbox, and, to a lesser extent, personal computers. We develop our own software in four software development studios located in the U.S. and the U.K, including a recording studio in the U.S. We also contract with independent software developers to create software for us. We distribute our software directly through our subsidiaries in North America, the U.K., Germany, France, Spain and Australia. We also utilize regional distributors outside those geographic areas. We also distribute software developed and published by third parties, develop and publish strategy guides relating to our software and issue “special edition” comic magazines at various times to support certain of our brands.

 

Our accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that we will continue as a going concern. As of August 31, 2002, our independent auditors’ report, as prepared by KPMG LLP and dated October 17, 2002, includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the substantial doubt as to the ability of Acclaim to continue as a going concern due to a working capital deficit as of August 31, 2002 and the recurring use of cash in operating activities. For the seven months ended March 31, 2003 we had a net loss of $67,805 and used $20,694 of cash in operating activities. As of March 31, 2003 we have a shareholders’ deficit of $46,158, a working capital deficit of $63,496 and $4,495 of cash and cash equivalents. These factors have continued to raise substantial doubt as to the ability of Acclaim to continue as a going concern. Based on management’s plans described below, these financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.

 

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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

Our short-term liquidity has been supplemented with borrowings under our North American and International credit facilities with our primary lender. (Please see note 12.) To enhance liquidity, during the seven months ended March 31, 2003 we implemented targeted expense reductions through a business restructuring under which we reduced fixed and variable expenses, closed our Salt Lake City, Utah development studio, redeployed various assets, eliminated certain marginal titles under development, reduced staff and staff related expenses and lowered marketing expenditures. Additionally, on March 31, 2003, our primary lender advanced to us a supplemental discretionary loan of up to $11,000 through May 31, 2003, and $5,000 through September 29, 2003. (Please see note 12.) In May 2003, two of our executive officers, referred to as the Affiliates, each committed to our Board of Directors to prepay a portion of their outstanding loans due to us in the amount of $2,000 each. Based upon our cash resources, including the $11.0 million supplemental discretionary loan being provided by our primary lender and assuming our primary lender consents, based upon our existing collateral, to provide us supplemental financing during the second half of fiscal 2004, although we can provide no assurance to our investors that we will be able to receive such consents, and the $4,000 cash commitment from the Affiliates and assuming we achieve our sales forecast by successfully meeting our product release schedule as provided in our business operating plan, and giving effect to the continued realization of savings from our implemented expense reductions, and providing we continue to enjoy the support of our primary lender and vendors, we expect to have sufficient cash resources to meet our projected cash and operating requirements through the next twelve months. The Company continues to pursue financing and investing arrangements with outside investors. Our long-term liquidity will significantly depend on our ability to timely develop and market new software products that achieve widespread market acceptance for use with the hardware platforms that dominate the market and derive a long-term benefit from the expense reductions. In the event that we do not achieve the product release schedule, sales assumptions or continue to derive expense savings from our implemented expense reductions, or our primary lender does not consent, based upon our existing collateral, to provide us supplemental financing during the second half of fiscal 2004, we cannot assure investors that our future operating cash flows will be sufficient to meet our operating requirements, our debt service requirements or repay our indebtedness at maturity, including without limitation, repayment of the supplemental discretionary loan. In any such event, our operations and liquidity will be materially and adversely affected and we could be forced to cease operations.

 

C. Net Revenue

 

We apply the provisions of Statement of Position 97-2, “Software Revenue Recognition,” in conjunction with the applicable provisions of Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101, “Revenue Recognition.” Accordingly, we recognize revenue for software when there is (1) persuasive evidence that an arrangement exists, which is generally a customer purchase order, (2) the software is delivered, (3) the selling price is fixed and determinable and (4) collectibility of the customer receivable is deemed probable. We do not customize our software or provide postcontract support to our customers.

 

The timing of when we recognize revenue generally differs for our retail customers and distributor customers. For retail customers, we recognize software product revenue when the products are shipped to the retail customers. Because we do not provide extended payment terms and our revenue arrangements with retail customers do not include multiple deliverables such as upgrades, postcontract customer support or other elements, our selling price for software products is fixed and determinable when titles are shipped to retail customers. We generally deem collectibility probable when we ship titles to retail customers as the majority of these sales are to major retailers that possess significant economic substance, the arrangements consist of payment terms of 60 days, and the customers’ obligation to pay is not contingent on the resale of product in the retail channel. For distributor customers, collectibility is deemed probable and we recognize revenue on the earlier to occur of when the distributor pays the invoice or when the distributor provides persuasive evidence that the product has been resold, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

We are not contractually obligated to accept returns, except for defective product. However, we grant price concessions to our customers who primarily are major retailers that control the market access to the consumer when those concessions are necessary to maintain our relationship with the retailers and access to their retail channel customers. If the consumers’ demand for a specific title falls below expectations or significantly declines below previous rates of sell-through, then, we may provide a price concession or credit to spur further sales by the retailer to maintain the customer relationship. We record revenue net of an allowance for estimated price concessions and returns. We must make significant estimates and judgments when determining the appropriate allowance for price concessions and returns in any accounting period. In order to derive and evaluate those estimates, we analyze historical price concessions and returns, current sell-through of product and retailer inventory, current economic trends, changes in consumer demand and acceptance of our products in the marketplace, among other factors. Please see note 1F.

 

Allowances for price concessions and returns are reflected as a reduction of accounts receivable when we have agreed to grant credits to our customers; otherwise, they are reflected as an accrued liability. Our allowance for price concessions and returns, including both the accounts receivable and accrued liability components, is summarized below:

 

    

March 31, 2003


  

August 31, 2002


Gross accounts receivable (please see note 2)

  

$

50,980

  

$

95,877

    

  

Allowances:

             

Accounts receivable allowance (please see note 2)

  

$

26,677

  

$

30,217

Accrued price concessions (please see note 10)

  

 

19,623

  

 

10,001

Accrued rebates (please see note 10)

  

 

2,010

  

 

1,957

    

  

Total allowances

  

$

48,310

  

$

42,175

    

  

 

D.    Interest Expense, Net

 

Interest expense, net is comprised of:

 

    

Three Months Ended


    

Seven Months Ended


      

Month Ended


 
    

March 31, 2003


    

March 31, 2002


    

March 31, 2003


    

March 31, 2002


      

December 29, 2002


 

Interest income

  

$

216

 

  

$

175

 

  

$

465

 

  

$

480

 

    

57

 

Interest expense

  

 

(2,152

)

  

 

(1,844

)

  

 

(4,538

)

  

 

(5,781

)

    

(552

)

    


  


  


  


    

    

$

(1,936

)

  

$

(1,669

)

  

$

(4,073

)

  

$

(5,301

)

    

(495

)

    


  


  


  


    

 

E.    Shipping and Handling Costs

 

We record shipping and handling costs as a component of general and administrative expenses. We do not invoice our customers for and have no revenue related to shipping and handling costs. These costs amounted to $1,042 for the three months ended March 31, 2003, $1,063 for the three months ended March 31, 2002, $2,755 for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 and $2,680 for the seven months ended March 31, 2002.

 

F.    Estimates

 

To prepare our financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, management must make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts of reported

 

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assets and liabilities, the disclosures for contingent assets and liabilities on the date of the financial statements and the amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from our estimates. Among the more significant estimates we included in these financial statements is our allowance for price concessions and returns, valuation allowances for inventory and valuation allowances for the recoverability of prepaid royalties. During the seven months ended March 31, 2003, net revenue decreased by $14,438 when we increased our August 31, 2002 allowance for price concessions and returns because actual product sell-through in the retail channel during the subsequent 2002 holiday season and through the end of March 2003, particularly for the Turok: Evolution software title released in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002, demonstrated that additional allowances were required.

 

G.    New Accounting Pronouncements

 

In June 2002, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB or the “Board”) issued SFAS No. 146 “Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities.” This statement supercedes Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) Issue No. 94-3, “Liability Recognition for Certain Employee Termination Benefits and Other Costs to Exit an Activity (including Certain Costs Incurred in a Restructuring).” SFAS No. 146 requires that a liability for a cost associated with an exit or disposal activity be recognized when the liability is incurred. Under EITF 94-3, a liability is recognized at the date an entity commits to an exit plan. SFAS No. 146 also establishes that the liability should initially be measured and recorded at fair value. We implemented the provisions of SFAS No. 146 during the three months ended March 31, 2003 in connection with our restructuring activities. Please see note 11.

 

In November 2002, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 45 (FIN 45), “Guarantor’s Accounting and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others, an interpretation of FASB Statements No. 5, 57, and 107 and Rescission of FASB Interpretation No. 34.” FIN 45 clarifies the requirements of FASB Statement No. 5, “Accounting for Contingencies,” relating to the guarantor’s accounting for, and disclosure of the issuance of certain types of guarantees. The disclosure provisions of the Interpretation are effective for financial statements of interim or annual reports that end after December 15, 2002. The provisions for initial recognition and measurement are effective on a prospective basis for guarantees that are issued or modified after December 31, 2002, irrespective of the guarantor’s year-end. Implementation of this standard during the three months ended March 31, 2003 had no effect on our statement of financial position or results of operations.

 

In December 2002, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 148, (SFAS 148), “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosure”, amending FASB Statement No. 123 (SFAS 123), “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.” SFAS 148 provides alternative methods of transition for a voluntary change to the fair value method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation as originally provided by SFAS No. 123. Additionally, SFAS 148 amends the disclosure requirements of SFAS 123 to require prominent disclosure in both the annual and interim financial statements about the method of accounting for stock-based compensation and the effect of the method used on reported results. The transitional requirements of SFAS 148 are effective for all financial statements for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2002. We adopted the disclosure portion of this statement for the current fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2003. The application of the disclosure portion of this standard will have no impact on our consolidated financial position or results of operations. The FASB recently indicated that they will require stock-based employee compensation to be recorded as a charge to earnings beginning in 2004. We will continue to monitor their progress on the issuance of this standard as well as evaluate our position with respect to current guidelines.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

The per share weighted average fair value of stock options granted was $0.68 during the seven months ended March 31, 2003 and $1.66 during the seven months ended March 31, 2002 on the dates of grant. We used the Black Scholes option-pricing model to calculate the fair values of the stock options we granted with the following weighted-average assumptions:

 

    

Seven Months Ended


 
    

March 31, 2003


    

March 31, 2002


 

Expected dividend yield

  

0

%

  

0

%

Risk free interest rate

  

2.2

%

  

3.5

%

Expected stock volatility

  

125

%

  

52

%

Expected option life

  

3 yrs

 

  

3 yrs

 

 

We account for our stock option grants to employees under APB Opinion No. 25 using the intrinsic value method and, accordingly, have recognized no compensation cost for those stock option grants we made which had an exercise price equal to or greater than the fair market value of our common stock on the dates of grant. Had we applied the fair value method under SFAS No. 123, our net earnings (loss) and net earnings (loss) per share on a pro forma basis would have been:

 

    

Seven Months Ended


 
    

March 31, 2003


    

March 31, 2002


 

Net (loss) earnings:

                 

As reported

  

$

(67,805

)

  

$

12,446

 

Add: Stock-based compensation expense included in net (loss) earnings

  

 

79

 

  

 

—  

 

Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense using fair value method

  

 

(2,999

)

  

 

(5,436

)

    


  


Pro forma

  

$

(70,725

)

  

$

7,010

 

    


  


Diluted net (loss) earnings per share:

                 

As reported

  

$

(0.73

)

  

$

0.14

 

    


  


Pro forma

  

$

(0.76

)

  

$

0.08

 

    


  


 

In January 2003, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 46, (FIN 46) “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities.” The objective of Interpretation No. 46 is to improve financial reporting by companies involved with variable interest entities. The Interpretation requires variable interest entities to be consolidated by a company if that company is subject to a majority of the risk of loss from the variable interest entity’s activities or is entitled to receive a majority of the entity’s residual returns or both. We do not currently have any variable interest entities and, therefore, the adoption of FIN 46 will not affect our financial statements.

 

H.    Comprehensive Income (Loss)

 

Comprehensive loss for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 is presented in the accompanying Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit). Comprehensive income (loss) was $12,606 for the seven months ended March 31, 2002, $(45,256) for the three months ended March 31, 2003, $4,847 for the three months ended March 31, 2002 and $(8,825) for the one month ended December 29, 2002.

 

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

I.    License Agreements

 

We and various Sony computer entertainment companies (collectively, “Sony”) have entered into agreements pursuant to which we maintain a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to utilize the “Sony” name and its proprietary information and technology in order to develop and distribute software for PlayStation and PlayStation 2 in various territories throughout the world, including North America, Australia, Europe and Asia. In March 2003, our agreements with Sony for PlayStation platforms renewed automatically and now expire in March 2004.

 

J.    Reclassifications

 

Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.

 

2.   ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

 

Accounts receivable are comprised of:

 

    

March 31, 2003


    

August 31, 2002


 

Assigned receivables due from factor

  

$

42,704

 

  

$

82,044

 

Unfactored accounts receivable

  

 

8,276

 

  

 

13,833

 

    


  


    

 

50,980

 

  

 

95,877

 

Allowance for price concessions and returns

  

 

(26,677

)

  

 

(30,217

)

    


  


    

$

24,303

 

  

$

65,660

 

    


  


 

We and our primary lender are parties to a factoring agreement that expires on August 31, 2003. The factoring agreement provides for automatic renewals for additional one-year periods, unless terminated by either party upon 90 days’ prior notice. Under the factoring agreement, we assign to our primary lender and our primary lender purchases from us, our U.S. accounts receivable on the approximate dates that our accounts receivable are due from our customers. Our primary lender remits payments to us for the assigned U.S. accounts receivable that are within the financial parameters set forth in the factoring agreement. Those financial parameters include requirements that invoice amounts meet approved credit limits and that the customer does not dispute the invoices. The purchase price of our accounts receivable that we assign to the factor equals the invoiced amount, which is adjusted for any returns, discounts and other customer credits or allowances.

 

Before our primary lender purchases our U.S. accounts receivable and remits payment to us for the purchase price, it may, in its discretion, provide us cash advances under our North American credit agreement (please see note 12) taking into account the assigned receivables due from our customers, among other things. As of March 31, 2003, our primary lender was advancing us 60% of the eligible receivables due from our retail customers. As of March 31, 2003, the factoring charge, recorded in interest expense, was 0.25% of assigned accounts receivable with invoice payment terms of up to 60 days and an additional 0.125% for each additional 30 days or portion thereof.

 

3.    OTHER RECEIVABLES

 

Other receivables are comprised of:

 

    

March 31, 2003


  

August 31, 2002


Notes receivable and accrued interest due from officers (please see note 12)

  

$

1,469

  

$

1,016

Licensing fee recovery

  

 

1,415

  

 

1,415

Other

  

 

476

  

 

254

    

  

    

$

3,360

  

$

2,685

    

  

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

4.    INVENTORIES

 

Inventories are comprised of:

 

    

March 31, 2003


  

August 31, 2002


Raw material and work-in-process

  

$

131

  

$

1,073

Finished goods

  

 

7,580

  

 

8,561

    

  

    

$

7,711

  

$

9,634

    

  

 

5.    PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT ASSETS

 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets are comprised of:

 

    

March 31, 2003


  

August 31, 2002


Prepaid advertising costs

  

$

414

  

$

2,105

Prepaid insurance

  

 

3,122

  

 

1,196

Prepaid taxes

  

 

326

  

 

240

Royalty advances

  

 

754

  

 

1,779

Financing costs (please see notes 12B and 15)

  

 

1,724

  

 

—  

Other prepaid expenses

  

 

736

  

 

1,100

    

  

    

$

7,076

  

$

6,420

    

  

 

6.    BUILDING HELD FOR SALE

 

Management committed itself to a plan to sell our building located in the United Kingdom. The building is not currently in use. In connection with the plan, we recorded an impairment charge of $2,146 to adjust the building’s net carrying value to its fair value of $5,424, net of expected selling costs. As of March 31, 2003, the carrying value of the building was reclassified from fixed assets to current assets and its associated mortgage payable was reclassified from long-term debt to current liabilities as we expect to sell the building within a year.

 

7.    FIXED ASSETS

 

Fixed assets are comprised of:

 

    

March 31,

2003


    

August 31,

2002


 

Buildings and improvements

  

$

20,155

 

  

$

29,650

 

Furniture, fixtures and equipment

  

 

43,405

 

  

 

47,064

 

Automotive equipment

  

 

394

 

  

 

636

 

    


  


    

 

63,954

 

  

 

77,350

 

Accumulated depreciation

  

 

(44,223

)

  

 

(46,590

)

    


  


    

$

19,731

 

  

$

30,760

 

    


  


 

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

8.    OTHER ASSETS

 

Other assets are comprised of:

 

    

March 31,

2003


  

August 31,

2002


Deferred financing costs

  

$

320

  

$

772

Deposits

  

 

473

  

 

490

Notes receivable due from officers (please see note 16)

  

 

100

  

 

400

    

  

    

$

893

  

$

1,662

    

  

 

9.    ACCRUED EXPENSES

 

Accrued expenses are comprised of:

 

    

March 31,

2003


  

August 31,

2002


Accrued advertising and marketing

  

$

300

  

$

2,797

Accrued consulting and professional fees

  

 

1,201

  

 

1,219

Accrued excise and other taxes

  

 

1,197

  

 

4,024

Accrued duty and freight

  

 

887

  

 

1,221

Accrued litigation

  

 

1,535

  

 

76

Accrued payroll

  

 

4,002

  

 

7,494

Accrued purchases

  

 

4,893

  

 

15,103

Accrued royalties payable and licensing obligations

  

 

12,188

  

 

10,087

Other accrued expenses

  

 

2,548

  

 

2,807

    

  

    

$

28,751

  

$

44,828

    

  

 

10.    ACCRUED SELLING EXPENSES

 

Accrued selling expenses are comprised of:

 

    

March 31,

2003


  

August 3l,

2002


Accrued cooperative advertising

  

$

3,187

  

$

1,229

Accrued price concessions

  

 

19,623

  

 

10,001

Accrued sales commissions

  

 

1,829

  

 

1,758

Accrued rebates

  

 

2,010

  

 

1,957

    

  

    

$

26,649

  

 

14,945

    

  

 

11.    ACCRUED RESTRUCTURING CHARGES

 

In December 2002 and January 2003, we restructured our operations in order to lower our operating expenses and improve our operating cash flows. Under the plan, we closed our software development studio located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and reduced global administrative headcount. The studio closing was designed to

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

achieve financial efficiencies through consolidation of all our domestic internal product development into one location. The closure of the development studio and reduction of global administrative headcount reduced our overall headcount by approximately 100 employees and resulted in restructuring charges of $4,500 during the month of December 2002 and another $324 during the three months ended March 31, 2003. The restructuring charges include accruals for employee termination costs, the write-off of certain fixed assets and leasehold improvements and the development studio lease commitment, which is net of estimated sub-lease rental income. The development studio lease commitment expires in May 2007 and the severance agreements expire over various periods through April 2004.

 

No restructuring charges were incurred for the three and seven months ended March 31, 2002.

 

The following table presents the components of restructuring charges incurred for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 and the change in accrued restructuring charges from August 31, 2002 to March 31, 2003.

 

Beginning balance as of August 31, 2002

  

$

—  

 

Severance and other employee termination benefits

  

 

3,459

 

Lease commitment, net of estimated sub-lease rental income

  

 

567

 

Asset write-offs

  

 

436

 

Other costs

  

 

38

 

    


Restructuring charges incurred and expensed

  

 

4,500

 

Less: costs paid

  

 

(419

)

    


Balance as of December 29, 2002

  

$

4,081

 

Severance and other employee termination benefits

  

 

324

 

Less: Cash paid

  

 

(2,106

)

    


Ending balance as of March 31, 2003

  

$

2,299

 

    


 

12. DEBT

 

Debt is comprised of:

 

    

March 31, 2003


  

August 31, 2002


Short term debt:

             

Mortgage notes (A)

  

$

—  

  

$

837

Obligations under capital leases

  

 

736

  

 

1,065

Supplemental bank loan (B)

  

 

11,000

  

 

—  

Advances from International factor (C)

  

 

4,110

  

 

757

Advances from North American factor (please see note 2)

  

 

4,154

  

 

42,349

Bank participation advance (D)

  

 

9,500

  

 

9,500

Promissory notes (E)

  

 

737

  

 

—  

Bank overdraft

  

 

562

  

 

—  

    

  

    

 

30,799

  

 

54,508

    

  

Long term debt:

             

Mortgage notes (A)

  

 

—  

  

 

4,079

Obligations under capital leases

  

 

632

  

 

658

    

  

    

 

632

  

 

4,737

    

  

    

$

31,431

  

$

59,245

    

  

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

A.    Mortgage Notes

 

In March 2000, we entered into a seven-year term secured credit facility with our U.K. bank to finance the purchase of a building in the U.K. and concurrently granted our U.K. bank a mortgage on the building. We are required to make quarterly principal payments of $215 (£137.5) pursuant to the secured credit facility. The U.K. bank charges us interest at 2.00% above LIBOR (5.94% as of March 31, 2003; 5.97% at August 31, 2002). We had a principal balance outstanding under this credit facility of $4,916 (£3,230) as of August 31, 2002. As of March 31, 2003, the building was held for sale (please see note 6) and, accordingly, we reclassified the building as a separate component in current assets and the associated mortgage payable of $4,600 (£2,924) as a separate component of current liabilities.

 

B.    North American Credit Agreement

 

Our primary lender and we are parties to a North American credit agreement, which expires on August 31, 2003. This agreement automatically renews for additional one-year periods, unless our primary lender or we terminate the agreement with 90 days’ prior notice. Under the agreement, our primary lender generally advances cash to us based on a borrowing formula that primarily takes into account the balance of our eligible U.S. receivables that the primary lender expects to purchase in the future, and to a lesser extent our finished goods inventory balances. Advances to us under the North American credit agreement bear interest at 1.50% per annum above our primary lender’s prime rate (5.75% as of March 31, 2003; 6.25% as of August 31, 2002). Borrowings that our primary lender may provide us in excess of an availability formula bear interest at 2.00% above our primary lender’s prime rate. Under the North American credit agreement, we may not borrow more than $30,000 or the amount calculated using the availability formula, whichever is less, unless our primary lender approves a supplemental discretionary loan. Our primary lender has secured all of our obligations under the North American credit agreement with substantially all of our assets. Under the terms of the North American credit agreement, we are required to maintain specified levels of working capital and tangible net worth, among other financial covenants. As of March 31, 2003 and August 31, 2002, we were not in compliance with respect to some of the financial covenants contained in the agreement and received waivers from our primary lender.

 

On March 31, 2003, our primary lender and we amended our North American credit agreement to allow for supplemental discretionary loans of up to $11,000 through May 31, 2003, and $5,000 through September 29, 2003 above the standard formula for short-term funding. As a condition for the amendment, two of our executive officers, otherwise referred to as the Affiliates, pledged an aggregate cash deposit of $2,000 with our primary lender in order to provide a limited guarantee of our obligations. Our primary lender will return the cash deposit to the Affiliates within five days following our timely repayment of the supplemental discretionary loans which are due to be fully repaid on September 30, 2003. As consideration to the Affiliates for making the deposit, and based upon the advice of, and a fairness opinion obtained from an independent financial advisor, on March 31, 2003, the Audit Committee approved and the Board of Directors authorized the issuance to each Affiliate 2,000 shares of our common stock with an aggregate market value of $1,560 and a warrant to purchase 500 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.50 per share with an aggregate fair value of $305. We are expensing the fair value of the consideration provided to the affiliates as a non-cash financing expense over the period between the date the initial supplemental loans were advanced, February 2003, and the date they are required to be fully repaid in September 2003. During the three months ended March 31, 2003, we expensed $306, which is included in interest expense. We have entered into an agreement with the Affiliates which stipulates that in the event the deposit is applied by our primary lender to the repayment of the outstanding supplemental loan obligations and not returned to the Affiliates, we will either repay such amount to the Affiliates or apply the amount as an offset, to the extent permitted by applicable law, against the balance of any net amounts due to us by the Affiliates (please see note 16).

 

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(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

In May 2003, the Affiliates agreed to prepay a portion of their outstanding loans due to us in the amount of $2,000.

 

Advances outstanding under the North American credit agreement within the standard borrowing formula amounted to $4,154 as of March 31, 2003 and $42,349 as of August 31, 2002. The supplemental discretionary loan outstanding amounted to $11,000 as of March 31, 2003. No supplemental discretionary loan was outstanding as of August 31, 2002.

 

During fiscal 2002 and fiscal 2001, our primary lender advanced us and we repaid supplemental discretionary loans above the standard formula for short-term funding under our North American credit agreement. As additional security for the supplemental loans, two of our executive officers personally pledged as collateral an aggregate of 1,568 shares of our common stock. If the market value of the pledged stock (based on a ten trading day average reviewed by our primary lender monthly) decreases below $5,000 while we have a supplemental discretionary loan outstanding and our officers do not deliver additional shares of our common stock to cover the shortfall, then our primary lender would be entitled to reduce the outstanding supplemental loan by an amount equal to the shortfall. Our primary lender will release the 1,568 shares of common stock the affiliates pledged following a 30-day period in which we are not in an overformula position exceeding $1,000 and are not otherwise in default under the North American credit agreement.

 

C.    Advances from International Factor

 

In fiscal 2001, several of our international subsidiaries entered into a receivables facility with our U.K. bank. Under the international facility, we can obtain financing of up to the lesser of approximately $18,000 or 60% of the aggregate amount of eligible receivables from our international operations. The amounts we borrow under the international facility bear interest at 2.00% per annum above LIBOR (5.17% as of March 31, 2003 and 6.00% as of August 31, 2002). This international facility has a term of three years, which automatically renews for additional one-year periods thereafter unless either our U.K. bank or we terminate it upon 90 days’ prior notice. Our U.K bank has secured the international facility with the accounts receivable and assets of our international subsidiaries that participate in the facility. We had an outstanding balance under the international facility of $4,110 as of March 31, 2003 and $757 as of August 31, 2002.

 

D.    Bank Participation Advance

 

In March 2001, our primary lender entered into junior participation agreements with some investors. As a result of the participation agreements, our primary lender advanced us $9,500 for working capital purposes. We are required to repay the $9,500 bank participation advance to our primary lender upon the earlier to occur of the termination of the North American credit agreement, currently August 31, 2003, or March 12, 2005. Our primary lender is required to purchase the participation agreements from the investors on the earlier to occur of March 12, 2005, or the date we repay all amounts outstanding under the North American credit agreement and the agreement is terminated. If we were not able to repay the bank participation advance, the junior participants would have subordinated rights assigned to them under the North American credit agreement for the unpaid balance.

 

E.    Promissory Note

 

In March 2003, we provided a promissory note to an independent software developer in the amount of $804 with a balance of $737 at March 31, 2003. The note bears interest at a rate of 8% per annum and is due to be fully paid by February 2004. As of March 31, 2003, the balance outstanding under the note was $736.

 

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(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

F.    Our debt matures as follows:

 

Fiscal years ending March 31,

      

2004

  

$

30,799

2005

  

 

441

2006

  

 

180

2007

  

 

11

    

    

$

31,431

    

 

13.    EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE

 

    

Three Months Ended


  

Seven Months Ended


  

Month Ended


 
    

March 31, 2003


    

March 31, 2002


  

March 31, 2003


    

March 3l, 2002


  

December 29, 2002


 

Basic EPS Computation:

                                        

Net (loss) earnings

  

$

(44,980

)

  

$

4,370

  

$

(67,805

)

  

$

12,446

  

$

(8,954

)

    


  

  


  

  


Weighted average common shares outstanding

  

 

92,665

 

  

 

85,653

  

 

92,568

 

  

 

81,113

  

 

92,520

 

    


  

  


  

  


Basic net (loss) earnings per share

  

$

(0.49

)

  

$

0.05

  

$

(0.73

)

  

$

0.15

  

$

(0.10

)

    


  

  


  

  


Diluted EPS Computation:

                                        

Net (loss) earnings

  

$

(44,980

)

  

$

4,370

  

$

(67,805

)

  

$

12,446

  

$

(8,954

)

    


  

  


  

  


Weighted average common shares outstanding

  

 

92,665

 

  

 

85,653

  

 

92,568

 

  

 

81,113

  

 

92,520

 

Dilutive potential common shares: Stock options and warrants

  

 

—  

 

  

 

4,461

  

 

—  

 

  

 

4,898

  

 

—  

 

    


  

  


  

  


Diluted common shares outstanding

  

 

92,665

 

  

 

90,114

  

 

92,568

 

  

 

86,011

  

 

92,520

 

    


  

  


  

  


Diluted net (loss) earnings per share

  

$

(0.49

)

  

$

0.05

  

$

(0.73

)

  

$

0.14

  

$

(0.10

)

    


  

  


  

  


 

We have excluded the effect of stock options and warrants in our calculation of diluted earnings per share for the three and seven months ended March 31, 2003 because their impact would have been antidilutive. As of March 31, 2003 and August 31, 2002 common stock equivalents excluded from earnings (loss) per share were 14,978 and 13,003 options and 4,787 and 3,945 warrants, respectively.

 

14.    STOCK OPTION AND PURCHASE PLANS

 

A.    Stock Option Plan

 

Our 1988 stock option plan provided for the grant of up to 25,000 shares of our common stock to employees, directors and consultants. That plan expired in May 1998. On October 1, 1998, our stockholders authorized the adoption of the 1998 stock incentive plan. Based on our stockholders’ authorization on January 17, 2002, under the 1998 stock option plan we are permitted to grant up to 15,442 shares of our common stock to our employees, directors and consultants through the grant of incentive stock options, non-incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights and other stock awards.

 

For the incentive stock options we granted to employees under the plans, the exercise price per share was equal to the market price of our common stock on the dates of grant, or 110% of the market price for certain

 

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(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

employees. For non-incentive stock options granted to employees under the plans, the exercise price per share was not less than 85% of the market price of our common stock on the dates of grant. Generally, outstanding options become exercisable equally over a three-year period starting on the date of grant (although this may be accelerated due to retirement, disability or death). Normally, employees, directors and consultants must exercise their outstanding options within ten years from the date they were granted. Some employees who were granted incentive options must exercise their outstanding options within five years from the date they were granted. As of March 31, 2003, option holders were able to purchase approximately 8,385 shares of our common stock from exercisable options at a weighted-average exercise price of $3.86 per share and we had available for future grant 3,188 options to purchase shares of our common stock. Other than 100 shares of our common stock we issued to an employee, through March 31, 2003 we have not issued any stock appreciation rights or shares of common stock under our 1998 stock incentive plan.

 

Option transactions under the 1988 and 1998 stock option plans for fiscal 2003 are summarized below:

 

    

Shares Under Option


    

Weighted Average Exercise Price


Outstanding, August 31, 2002

  

12,930

 

  

$

4.14

Granted

  

4,348

 

  

$

0.92

Exercised

  

(10

)

  

$

1.03

Canceled

  

(2,290

)

  

$

3.35

    

  

Outstanding, March 31, 2003

  

14,978

 

  

$

4.14

    

  

 

Options outstanding under the 1988 and 1998 stock option plans as of March 31, 2003 are summarized in ranges as follows:

 

Range of

Exercise Price


     

Weighted

Average

Exercise

Price


    

Number

of

Options

Outstanding


    

Weighted

Average

Remaining

Life


$  0.39

 

 

$  0.54

     

$  0.43

    

1,500

    

10.0 years

0.66

 

 

0.91

     

    0.75

    

278

    

9.7 years

1.03

 

 

1.59

     

    1.22

    

3,251

    

9.1 years

1.63

 

 

2.38

     

    2.10

    

1,141

    

8.4 years

2.50

 

 

3.73

     

    3.37

    

1,843

    

6.1 years

3.79

 

 

5.58

     

    4.29

    

5,878

    

7.0 years

5.75

 

 

7.94

     

    7.32

    

736

    

4.4 years

8.69

 

 

12.13

     

  10.55

    

145

    

3.3 years

16.38

 

 

24.00

     

  20.50

    

206

    

1.4 years

                      
      
                      

14,978

      
                      
      

 

B.    Employee Stock Purchase Plan

 

Effective May 4, 1998, we adopted an employee stock purchase plan to provide employees who meet eligibility requirements an opportunity to purchase shares of our common stock through payroll deductions of up to 10% of eligible compensation. Bi-annually, we use participant account balances to purchase shares of our

 

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(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

common stock at a per share price of 85% of the lesser of the fair market value per share on the exercise date or the price on the offering date. The plan will remain in effect for a term of 20 years, unless terminated sooner by our Board of Directors. A total of 3,000 shares of our common stock are available for employees to purchase under the plan. Employees purchased 140 shares of our common stock in the seven months ended March 31, 2003 under the plan.

 

15.    EQUITY

 

On March 31, 2003, as a result of the 4,000 common shares authorized to be issued to the Affiliates in connection with the amendment to the North American credit agreement with our primary lender (please see note 12B) and the anti-dilution provisions originally included in certain of our outstanding warrants on the date of our authorization to issue the shares, the number of shares issuable under the warrants increased and the exercise price decreased to $0.39 per share. We will amortize the excess of the fair value of the total modified warrants over the fair value of the original warrants of $165, as calculated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, as a non-cash financing expense on a straight-line basis over the period between March 31, 2003 and September 30, 2003, the date on which the discretionary supplemental loan is due to be repaid. The following table summarizes the warrant modifications:

 

    

Modified


  

Original


  

Expiration

Date


Issuance Purpose


  

Number


  

Exercise

Price


  

Number


  

Exercise

Price


  

1997 financing

  

569

  

$

0.39

  

337

  

$

1.25

  

February, 2006

2000 financing

  

210

  

 

  0.39

  

125

  

 

  1.25

  

July, 2005

2002 financing

  

255

  

 

  0.39

  

136

  

 

  3.00

  

October, 2006

    
         
           
    

1,034

  

 

  0.39

  

598

  

 

  1.65

    
    
         
           

 

In March 2003, warrants to issue 594 shares of our common stock with an exercise price of $3.61 per share expired unexercised.

 

As of March 31, 2003 and August 31, 2002, we had common shares reserved for issuance for the following warrants:

 

    

March 31, 2003


  

August 31, 2002


  

Expiration

Date


Issuance Purpose


  

Number


  

Exercise Price


  

Number


  

Exercise Price


  

Junior participation

  

1,270

  

$

  1.25

  

1,270

  

$

  1.25

  

March, 2006

Litigation settlement

  

—  

  

 

—  

  

594

  

 

3.61

  

March, 2003

2002 officer

  

1,250

  

 

2.88

  

1,250

  

 

2.88

  

April, 2012

2003 officer

  

1,000

  

 

0.50

  

—  

  

 

—  

  

March, 2008

1997 financing

  

569

  

 

0.39

  

337

  

 

1.25

  

February, 2006

2000 financing

  

210

  

 

0.39

  

125

  

 

1.25

  

July, 2005

2002 financing

  

255

  

 

0.39

  

136

  

 

3.00

  

October, 2006

2001 private placement

  

233

  

 

3.46

  

233

  

 

3.56

  

July, 2004

    
         
           
    

4,787

  

 

1.44

  

3,945

  

 

2.32

    
    
         
           

 

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(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

16.    RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Fees for services

 

We pay sales commissions to a firm, which is owned and controlled by one of our executive officers, who is also a director and a principal stockholder. The firm earns these sales commissions based on the amount of our software sales the firm generates. Commissions earned by the firm amounted to $102 for the three months ended March 31, 2003, $310 for the three months ended March 31, 2002, $279 for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 and $315 for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. We owed the firm $498 as of March 31, 2003 and $385 as of August 31, 2002.

 

During previous fiscal years, we received legal services from two law firms of which two members of our Board of Directors are partners. We incurred fees from one of those firms of $279 for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and $528 for the seven months ended March 31, 2003. We incurred fees from both firms of $170 for the three months ended March 31, 2002 and $318 for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. We owed fees of $353 as of March 31, 2003 and $200 as of August 31, 2002 to one of the firms.

 

Notes receivable

 

In October 2002, we loaned a senior executive $300 under a promissory note for the purpose of purchasing a new residence. Our Compensation Committee approved the terms and provisions of the loan in April of 2002. The promissory note bears interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum. Security for the repayment of the promissory note is a mortgage on the executive’s principal residence. The maturity date of the note is November 1, 2005. The loan shall be forgiven by us 50% in May 2003 and 25% in each of October 2004 and October 2005 so long as the executive remains employed with Acclaim. If the executive voluntarily leaves the employment of Acclaim or is terminated for cause, at any time prior to the maturity date of the note, the executive must repay a pro-rata portion of the unpaid principal balance of the loan plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon. We are recording compensation expense for the principal balance of the loan over the periods that each portion will be forgiven. Accordingly, during the three and seven months ended March 31, 2003, we expensed $133 of the unpaid principal balance. As of March 31, 2003, the unpaid principal balance and related accrued interest under the loan was $167, which was included in other receivables.

 

In February 2002, relating to an officer’s employment agreement, we loaned one of our executive officers $300 under a promissory note for the purpose of purchasing a new residence. The promissory note bore interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum, which was due by December 31st of each year the promissory note remained outstanding. In January 2003, in connection with terminating the officer’s employment and in accordance with the officer’s employment agreement, we forgave and expensed as compensation the unpaid principal balance. As of March 31, 2003, the unpaid principal balance and related accrued interest under the loan was $167, which was included in other receivables.

 

In February 2002, relating to an officer’s employment agreement, we loaned one of our executive officers $300 under a promissory note for the purpose of purchasing a new residence. The promissory note bore interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum, which was due by December 31st of each year the promissory note remained outstanding. In January 2003, in connection with terminating the officer’s employment and in accordance with the officer’s employment agreement, we forgave and expensed as compensation the unpaid principal balance and related accrued interest of $302. As of August 31, 2002, the unpaid principal balance, included in other assets, was $300, and the related accrued interest, included in other receivables, was $8.

 

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(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

In October 2001, we issued a total of 1,125 shares of our common stock to two of our executive officers when they exercised their warrants with an exercise price of $3.00 per share. For the shares we issued, we received cash of $23 for their par value and two promissory notes totaling $3,352 for the unpaid portion of the exercise price of the warrants. The principal amount and accrued interest are due and payable on the earlier of (i) August 31, 2003 and (ii) to the extent of the proceeds of any warrant share sale, the third business day following the date upon which the respective executive sells any or all of the warrant shares. The terms and provisions of the notes will not be materially modified or amended, nor will the term be extended or renewed. The notes provide us full recourse against the officers’ assets. The notes bear interest at our primary lender’s prime rate plus 1.50% per annum. Other receivables includes accrued interest receivable on the notes of $324 as of March 31, 2003 and $202 as of August 31, 2002. The notes receivable have been classified as a contra-equity balance in additional paid-in capital.

 

In July 2001, we issued a total of 1,500 shares of our common stock to two of our executive officers when they exercised their warrants with an exercise price of $2.42 per share. For the shares issued, we received cash of $30 for their par value and two promissory notes totaling $3,595 for the unpaid portion of the exercise price of the warrants. The principal amount and accrued interest are due and payable on the earlier of (i) August 31, 2003 and (ii) to the extent of the proceeds of any warrant share sale, the third business day following the date upon which the respective executive sells any or all of the warrant shares. The terms and provisions of the notes will not be materially modified or amended, nor will the term be extended or renewed. The notes provide us full recourse against the officers’ assets. The notes bear interest at our primary lender’s prime rate plus 1.50% per annum. Other receivables includes accrued interest receivable on the notes of $426 as of March 31, 2003 and $294 as of August 31, 2002. The notes receivable have been classified as a contra-equity balance in additional paid-in capital.

 

In August 2000, relating to an officer’s employment agreement, we loaned one of our officers $200 under a promissory note. The note bears no interest and must be repaid on the earlier to occur of the sale of the officer’s personal residence or August 24, 2004. Based on the officer’s employment agreement, we were to forgive the loan at a rate of $25 for each year the officer remained employed with us up to a maximum of $100. Accordingly, in fiscal 2001, we expensed $25 and reduced the officer’s outstanding loan balance. In May 2002, relating to a separation agreement with the officer, we forgave and expensed another $75. The balance outstanding under the loan was $100 as of March 31, 2003 and August 31, 2002, which is included in other assets.

 

In August 1998, relating to an officer’s employment agreement, we loaned one of our officers $500 under a promissory note. We reduced the note balance by $50 in August 1999, relating to the officer’s employment agreement, and by $200 in January 2000 relating to the employee’s termination. The note bears no interest and must be repaid on the earlier to occur of the sale or transfer of the former officer’s personal residence or August 11, 2003. The balance outstanding under the loan was $250 as of March 31, 2003 and August 31, 2002 and was included in other receivables.

 

Warrants

 

In October 2001, we issued to two of our executive officers warrants to purchase a total of 1,250 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $2.88 per share, the fair market value of our common stock on the grant date. We issued the warrants to the officers in consideration for their services and personal pledge of 1,250 shares of our common stock to our primary lender, as additional security for our supplemental discretionary loans (please see note 12).

 

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(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

17.    SEGMENT INFORMATION

 

Our chief operating decision-maker is our Chief Executive Officer. We have two reportable segments, North America and Europe and Pacific Rim, which we organize, manage and analyze geographically and which operate in one industry segment: the development, marketing and distribution of entertainment software. We have presented information about our operations for the three and seven months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002 below:

 

    

North America


    

Europe and Pacific Rim


    

Eliminations


    

Total


 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2003

                                   

Net revenue from external customers

  

$

11,412

 

  

$

16,548

 

  

$

—  

 

  

$

27,960

 

Intersegment sales

  

 

10

 

  

 

4,570

 

  

 

(4,580

)

  

 

—  

 

    


  


  


  


Total net revenue

  

$

11,422

 

  

$

21,118

 

  

$

(4,580

)

  

$

27,960

 

    


  


  


  


Interest income

  

$

185

 

  

$

31

 

  

$

—  

 

  

$

216

 

Interest expense

  

 

1,870

 

  

 

282

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,152

 

Depreciation and amortization

  

 

1,366

 

  

 

345

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

1,711

 

Impairment on building held for sale

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,146

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,146

 

Operating loss

  

 

(38,303

)

  

 

(5,226

)

  

 

—  

 

  

 

(43,529

)

Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

                                   

Net revenue from external customers

  

$

49,786

 

  

$

17,034

 

  

$

—  

 

  

$

66,820

 

Intersegment sales

  

 

37

 

  

 

2,176

 

  

 

(2,213

)

  

 

—  

 

    


  


  


  


Total net revenue

  

$

49,823

 

  

$

19,210

 

  

$

(2,213

)

  

$

66,820

 

    


  


  


  


Interest income

  

$

159

 

  

$

16

 

  

$

—  

 

  

$

175

 

Interest expense

  

 

1,634

 

  

 

210

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

1,844

 

Depreciation and amortization

  

 

1,774

 

  

 

351

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,125

 

Operating profit

  

 

4,584

 

  

 

1,899

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

6,483

 

Seven Months Ended March 31, 2003

                                   

Net revenue from external customers

  

$

43,347

 

  

$

58,242

 

  

$

—  

 

  

$

101,589

 

Intersegment sales

  

 

17

 

  

 

7,875

 

  

 

(7,892

)

  

 

  —  

 

    


  


  


  


Total net revenue

  

$

43,364

 

  

$

66,117

 

  

$

(7,892

)

  

$

101,589

 

    


  


  


  


Interest income

  

$

415

 

  

$

50

 

  

$

—  

 

  

$

465

 

Interest expense

  

 

3,821

 

  

 

717

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

4,538

 

Depreciation and amortization

  

 

3,329

 

  

 

795

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

4,124

 

Impairment on building held for sale

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,146

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,146

 

Operating loss

  

 

(61,059

)

  

 

(3,065

)

  

 

—  

 

  

 

(64,124

)

Identifiable assets as of March 31, 2003

  

 

49,474

 

  

 

30,463

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

79,937

 

Seven Months Ended March 31, 2002

                                   

Net revenue from external customers

  

$

116,827

 

  

$

43,361

 

  

$

—  

 

  

$

160,188

 

Intersegment sales

  

 

39

 

  

 

5,632

 

  

 

(5,671

)

  

 

—  

 

    


  


  


  


Total net revenue

  

$

116,866

 

  

$

48,993

 

  

$

(5,671

)

  

$

160,188

 

    


  


  


  


Interest income

  

$

386

 

  

$

94

 

  

$

—  

 

  

$

480

 

Interest expense

  

 

5,250

 

  

 

531

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

5,781

 

Depreciation and amortization

  

 

4,073

 

  

 

795

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

4,868

 

Operating profit

  

 

16,723

 

  

 

2,144

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

18,867

 

Identifiable assets as of March 31, 2002

  

 

112,573

 

  

 

34,147

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

146,720

 

 

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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

Our gross revenue was derived from the following product categories:

 

      

Three Months Ended


      

Seven Months Ended


 
      

March 31, 2003


      

March 31, 2002


      

March 31, 2003


      

March 31, 2002


 

Cartridge-based software:

                                   

Nintendo Game Boy

    

3

%

    

10

%

    

4

%

    

8

%

      

    

    

    

Subtotal for cartridge-based software

    

3

%

    

10

%

    

4

%

    

8

%

      

    

    

    

Disc-based software:

                                   

Sony Play Station 2: 128-bit

    

65

%

    

54

%

    

64

%

    

57

%

Sony Play Station 1: 32-bit

    

1

%

    

6

%

    

3

%

    

7

%

Microsoft Xbox 128-bit

    

19

%

    

11

%

    

15

%

    

8

%

Nintendo GameCube: 128-bit

    

10

%

    

18

%

    

13

%

    

19

%

      

    

    

    

Subtotal for disc-based software

    

95

%

    

89

%

    

95

%

    

91

%

      

    

    

    

PC software

    

2

%

    

1

%

    

1

%

    

1

 

      

    

    

    

Total

    

100

%

    

100

%

    

100

%

    

100

%

      

    

    

    

 

18.    COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

A.    Legal Proceedings

 

As of May 8, 2003, thirteen class action complaints, containing similar allegations, have been filed against us and certain of our officers and/or directors. Each complaint asserts violations of federal securities laws. The actions are entitled: Purvis, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division; DMS, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Rodney Cousens and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division; Nach, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Rodney Cousens and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division; Baron, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division; Traube, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division; Hildal, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division; Hicks, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Rodney Cousens and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division; Russo, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division; Vicino, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division; Sypes, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division; Berman, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division; Burk, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis,

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division;Brake, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Rodney Cousens and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division.

 

In Purvis, Baron, Traube, Hildal, Russo, Vicino, Sypes, Berman, and Burk, plaintiffs allege that during the purported class period between January 11, 2002 and September 19, 2002 we reported positive earnings statements and gave favorable earnings guidance, but failed to disclose material adverse facts regarding our business, operations and management, thereby causing plaintiffs and other members of the class to purchase our securities at artificially inflated prices. Plaintiffs claim violations under §§ 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 10b-5. In DMS, Nach, Hicks, and Brake, plaintiffs assert that during the class period between January 22, 2002 and September 19, 2002 we committed certain alleged accounting improprieties, thereby causing plaintiffs and other members of the class to purchase our securities at artificially inflated prices. Plaintiffs claim violations under §§ 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and SEC Rule 10b-5. All the complaints seek unspecified damages. The complaints in the Purvis, DMS, Baron, Russo, Vicino, Sypes and Berman actions have been served. In those actions, the parties have agreed to extend defendants’ time to respond to the complaints until after a consolidated amended complaint is served. We intend to defend these actions vigorously.

 

We and other companies in the entertainment industry were sued in an action entitled James, et al. v. Meow Media, et al. filed in April 1999 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Paducah Division. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants negligently caused injury to the plaintiffs as a result of, in the case of Acclaim, its distribution of unidentified “violent” video games, which induced a minor to harm his high school classmates, thereby causing damages to plaintiffs, the parents of the deceased individuals. The plaintiffs seek damages in the amount of approximately $110 million. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky dismissed this action and the dismissal was then appealed by the plaintiffs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied plaintiffs appeal. The plaintiff filed a petition for a Writ of Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court to challenge the Sixth Circuits decision. The United States Supreme Court denied the petition on January 21, 2003. No further appeals are available to the plaintiffs.

 

We and other companies in the entertainment industry were sued in an action entitled Sanders et al. v. Meow Media, et al., filed in April 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The complaint purports to be a class action brought on behalf of all persons killed or injured by the shootings which occurred at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. We are a named defendant in the action along with more than ten other publishers of computer and video games. The complaint alleges that the video game defendants negligently caused injury to the plaintiffs as a result of their distribution of unidentified “violent” video games, which induced two minors to kill a teacher related to the plaintiff and to kill or harm their high school classmates, thereby causing damages to plaintiffs. The complaint seeks: compensatory damages in an amount not less than $15 for each plaintiff in the class, but up to $20 million for some of the members of the class; punitive damages in the amount of $5 billion; statutory damages against certain other defendants in the action; and equitable relief to address the marketing and distribution of “violent” video games to children. This case was dismissed on March 4, 2002. Following dismissal, the plaintiffs moved for relief and the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado denied the relief sought by plaintiff. On April 5, 2002, plaintiffs noted an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. On October 3, 2002, the Tenth Circuit took jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ appeal. The plaintiffs subsequently filed a stipulation of dismissal of their appeal with prejudice, and the Tenth Circuit formally dismissed the appeal on December 10, 2002. No further appeals are available to the plaintiffs.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

We received a demand for indemnification from the defendant Lazer-Tron Corporation in a matter entitled J. Richard Oltmann v. Steve Simon, No. 98 C1759 and Steve Simon v. J. Richard Oltmann, J Richard Oltmann Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Haunted Trails Amusement Parks, and RLT Acquisitions, Inc., d/b/a Lazer-Tron, No. A 98CA 426, consolidated as U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois. The Lazer-Tron action involves the assertion by plaintiff Simon that defendants Oltmann, Haunted Trails and Lazer-Tron misappropriated plaintiff’s trade secrets. Plaintiff alleges claims for Lanham Act violations, unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, conspiracy, and fraud against all defendants, and seeks damages in unspecified amounts, including treble damages for Lanham Act claims, and an accounting. Pursuant to an asset purchase agreement made as of March 5, 1997, we sold Lazer-Tron to RLT Acquisitions, Inc. Under the asset purchase agreement, we assumed and excluded specific liabilities, and agreed to indemnify RLT for certain losses, as specified in the asset purchase agreement. In an August 1, 2000 letter, counsel for Lazer-Tron in the Lazer-Tron action asserted that our indemnification obligations in the asset purchase agreement applied to the Lazer-Tron action, and demanded that we indemnify Lazer-Tron for any losses which may be incurred in the Lazer-Tron action. In an August 22, 2000 response, we asserted that any losses which may result from the Lazer-Tron action are not assumed liabilities under the asset purchase agreement for which we must indemnify Lazer-Tron. In a November 20, 2000 letter, Lazer-Tron responded to Acclaim’s August 22 letter and reiterated its position that we must indemnify Lazer-Tron with respect to the Lazer-Tron action. No other action with respect to this matter has been taken to date.

 

An action entitled David Mirra v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on February 5, 2003. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants did not have authorization to utilize Mirra’s name and likeness in connection with a bicycle video game intended for mature audiences. Specifically, Mirra alleges that we engaged in (1) violations of § 1051 et seq. of the Lanham Act; (2) violations of §43(a) of the Lanham Act; (3) breach of the amendment to the license agreement; (4) unfair competition; (5) tortious interference; (6) injury to business reputation and dilution; (7) deceptive trade practices in violation of General Business Law of New York § 349; (8) false advertising in violation of General Business Law of New York § 350-D; (9) violation of the California Civil Code § 3344; and (10) invasion of privacy - misappropriation of likeness pursuant to California common law; (11) invasion of privacy - false light pursuant to California common law; and (12) and accounting. Mirra claims that he has been harmed by $1,000 per Counts 1-5 and 7-11, for a total of $10,000 in actual damages. Mirra is also claiming that our actions were willful and is demanding an additional $20,000 in punitive damages, plus costs and attorneys’ fees. We denied the factual and legal allegations giving rise to these causes of actions in our answer. Specifically, we have asserted defenses of acquiescence/consent, parole evidence and contract, fair use, waiver/estoppel and others. We have also raised counterclaims for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and non-breach of our License Agreement with Mirra and the Amendment thereto; breach of the License Agreement by Mirra; unfair competition and false designation of origin; and tortious interference with prospective and existing customers and contractual/business relations. Mirra filed a reply to our counterclaims denying any culpability. Neither party has yet to exchange their initial disclosures or to begin formal discovery.

 

We are also party to various litigations arising in the ordinary course of our business, the resolution of which, we believe, will not have a material adverse effect on our liquidity or results of operations.

 

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Item 2.     Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

 

As used in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, unless the context otherwise requires, all references to “we”, “us”, “our”, “Acclaim” or the “Company” refer to Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., and our subsidiaries. The term “common stock” means our common stock, $.02 par value.

 

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including Item 2 of Part I (“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”) and Item 3 of Part I (“Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk”), contains forward-looking statements about circumstances that have not yet occurred. All statements, trend analysis and other information contained below relating to markets, our products and trends in revenue, as well as other statements including words such as “anticipate”, “believe” or “expect” and statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to business and economic risks, and actual events or actual future results could differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements due to such risks and uncertainties. We will not necessarily update this information if any forward-looking statement later turns out to be inaccurate. Risks and uncertainties that may affect our future results and performance include, but are not limited to, those discussed under the heading “Factors Affecting Future Performance.”

 

The following is intended to update the information contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2002 for Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries and presumes that the readers have access to, and will have read, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” contained in such Form 10-K.

 

In January 2003, our Board of Directors approved a plan to change our fiscal year end from August 31 to March 31. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements include our results of operations for the three month quarter and the seven month fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. Fiscal year 2004 commenced on April 1, 2003 and will end on March 31, 2004. Our quarterly closing dates will occur on the Sunday closest to the last day of the calendar quarter, which encompasses the following quarter ending dates for fiscal 2004.

 

Quarter


  

Quarter End Date


First

  

June 29, 2003

Second

  

September 28, 2003

Third

  

December 28, 2003

Fourth

  

March 31, 2004

 

Overview

 

We develop, publish, market and distribute, under our brand names, interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sony’s PlayStation® 2, Microsoft’s Xbox, and Nintendo’s GameCube and Game Boy Advance and, to a lesser extent, personal computer systems. We develop software internally, as well as engaging third parties to develop software on our behalf.

 

We internally develop our software products through our four software development studios located in the United States and the United Kingdom. Additionally, we contract with independent software developers to create software products for us.

 

Through our subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Australia, we distribute our software products directly to retailers and other outlets, and we also utilize regional distributors in Japan and the Pacific Rim to distribute software within those geographic areas. As an additional aspect of our business, we distribute software products which have been developed by third parties. A less significant aspect of our business is the development and publication of strategy guides relating to our software products and the issuance of certain “special edition” comic magazines to support some of our brands.

 

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Since our inception, we have developed products for each generation of major gaming platforms, including IBM(R) Windows-based personal computers and compatibles, 16-bit Sega Genesis video game system, 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System®, 32-bit Nintendo Game Boy®, Game Boy® Advance and Game Boy® Color, 32-bit Sony PlayStation®, 64-bit Nintendo® 64, Sega Dreamcast, 128-bit Sony PlayStation® 2, 128-bit Microsoft Xbox, and 128-bit Nintendo GameCube. We also initially developed software for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System and the 8-bit Sega Master System.

 

Substantially all of our revenue is derived from one industry segment, the development, publication, marketing and distribution of interactive entertainment software. For information regarding our foreign and domestic operations, see Note 17 (Segment Information) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 1 of Part I of this Form 10-Q.

 

Approximately 54% of our gross revenue was derived from software developed at our internal studios by our in-house development group for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 39% for the seven months ended March 31, 2003. The balance of our gross revenue was derived from software development contracted through third-party developers.

 

Critical Accounting Policies

 

The preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires us to make judgments, assumptions and estimates that affect the amounts reported in our Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate the estimates to determine their accuracy and make adjustments when we deem it necessary. Note 1 (Business and Significant Accounting Policies) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 2002, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, describes the significant accounting policies and methods we use in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements. We use estimates for, but not limited to, accounting for the allowance for price concessions and returns, the valuation of inventory, the recoverability of advance royalty payments and the amortization of capitalized software development costs. We base estimates on our historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe are relevant under the circumstances, the results from which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results could differ from these estimates. Our critical accounting policies include the following:

 

Revenue Recognition

 

We apply the provisions of Statement of Position 97-2, “Software Revenue Recognition” in conjunction with the applicable provisions of Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101, “Revenue Recognition.” Accordingly, we recognize revenue for software when there is (1) persuasive evidence that an arrangement exists, which is generally a customer purchase order, (2) the software is delivered, (3) the selling price is fixed and determinable and (4) collectibility of the customer receivable is deemed probable. We do not customize our software or provide post contract support to our customers.

 

The timing of when we recognize revenue generally differs for our retail customers and distributor customers. For retail customers, we recognize software product revenue when the products are shipped to the retail customers. Because we do not provide extended payment terms and our revenue arrangements with retail customers do not include multiple deliverables such as upgrades, post-contract customer support or other elements, our selling price for software products is fixed and determinable when titles are shipped to our retail customers. We generally deem collectibility probable at the time titles are shipped to retail customers because the majority of these sales are to major retailers that possess significant economic substance, the arrangements consist of payment terms of 60 days, and the customers’ obligation to pay is not contingent on resale of the

 

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product in the retail channel. For distributor customers, collectibility is deemed probable and we recognize revenue on the earlier to occur of when the distributor pays the invoice or when the distributor provides persuasive evidence that the product has been resold, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.

 

Allowances for Price Concessions and Returns

 

We are not contractually obligated to accept returns, except for defective product. However, we grant price concessions to our customers who primarily are major retailers that control market access to the consumer when those concessions are necessary to maintain our relationships with the retailers and access to their retail channel customers. If the consumers’ demand for a specific title falls below expectations or significantly declines below previous rates of sell-through, then, we may provide a price concession or credit to spur further sales by the retailer to maintain the customer relationship. We record revenue net of an allowance for estimated price concessions and returns. We must make significant estimates and judgments when determining the appropriate allowance for price concessions and returns in any accounting period. In order to derive and evaluate those estimates, we analyze historical price concessions and returns, current sell-through of product and retailer inventory, current economic trends, changes in consumer demand and acceptance of our products in the marketplace, among other factors.

 

As the consumer market acceptance of a software title decreases, resulting in lower unit retail sell-through, the potential for price concessions and returns for those titles increases. During the seven months ended March 31, 2003, net revenue decreased by $14.4 million when we increased our August 31, 2002 allowance for price concessions and returns because actual product sell-through in the retail channel during the subsequent 2002 holiday season and through the end of April 2003, particularly for the Turok: Evolution software title released in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002, demonstrated that additional allowances were required. Please see “Net Revenues.

 

Allowances for price concessions and returns are reflected as a reduction of accounts receivable when we have agreed to grant credits to the customer; otherwise, they are reflected as an accrued liability.

 

Prepaid Royalties

 

We pay non-refundable royalty advances to licensors of intellectual properties and classify those payments as prepaid royalties. All royalty advance payments are recoupable against future royalties due for software or intellectual properties we licensed under the terms of our license agreements. We expense prepaid royalties at contractual royalty rates based on actual product sales. We also charge to expense the portion of prepaid royalties that we expect will not be recovered through royalties due on future product sales. Material differences between actual future sales and those projected may result in the amount and timing of royalty expense to vary. We classify royalty advances as current or noncurrent assets based on the portion of estimated future net product sales that are expected to occur within the next fiscal year.

 

Capitalized Software Development Costs

 

We account for our software development costs in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 86, “Accounting for the Cost of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased, or Otherwise Marketed.” Under SFAS No. 86, we expense software development costs as incurred until we determine that the software is technologically feasible. Generally, to establish whether the software is technologically feasible, we require a proven software game engine that has been successfully utilized in a previous product. We assess its detailed program designs to verify that the working model of the software game engine has been tested against the product design. Once we determine that the entertainment software is technologically feasible and we have a basis for estimating the recoverability of the development costs from future cash flows, we capitalize the remaining software development costs until the software product is released.

 

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Once we release a software title, we commence amortizing the related capitalized software development costs. We record amortization expense as a component of cost of revenue. We calculate the amortization of a software title’s capitalized software development costs using two different methods, and then amortize the greater of the two amounts. Under the first method, we divide the current period gross revenue for the released title by the total of current period gross revenue and anticipated future gross revenue for the title and then multiply the result by the title’s total capitalized software development costs. Under the second method, we divide the title’s total capitalized costs by the number of periods in the title’s estimated economic life up to a maximum of three months. Material differences between our actual gross revenue and those we project may result in the amount and timing of amortization to vary. If we deem a title’s capitalized software development costs unrecoverable based on our expected future gross revenue and corresponding cash flows, we write off the unrecoverable costs and record a charge to development expense or cost of revenue, as appropriate.

 

Operating Results

 

Summarized below are our operating results for the three and sevens months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002 and the related changes in operating results between those periods. You should read the tables below together with the Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements, which are included in Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

                  

Changes


 
    

Three Months Ended


    

Fiscal 2003

Versus

Fiscal 2002


 
    

March 31,

2003


    

March 31, 2002


    

$


    

%


 

Net revenue

  

$

27,960

 

  

$

66,820

 

  

$

(38,860

)

  

-58.2

%

Cost of revenue

  

 

37,522

 

  

 

28,897

 

  

 

8,625

 

  

29.8

%

    


  


  


      

Gross (loss) profit

  

 

(9,562

)

  

 

37,923

 

  

 

(47,485

)

  

-125.2

%

    


  


  


      

Operating expenses

                                 

Marketing and selling

  

 

9,613

 

  

 

11,787

 

  

 

(2,174

)

  

-18.4

%

General and administrative

  

 

10,868

 

  

 

10,669

 

  

 

199

 

  

1.9

%

Research and development

  

 

11,016

 

  

 

8,984

 

  

 

2,032

 

  

22.6

%

Restructuring charges

  

 

324

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

324

 

  

0.0

%

Impairment on building held for sale

  

 

2,146

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,146

 

  

0.0

%

    


  


  


      

Total operating expenses

  

 

33,967

 

  

 

31,440

 

  

 

2,527

 

  

8.0

%

    


  


  


      

Loss from operations

  

 

(43,529

)

  

 

6,483

 

  

 

(50,012

)

  

-771.4

%

    


  


  


      

Other income (expense)

                                 

Interest expense, net

  

 

(1,936

)

  

 

(1,669

)

  

 

(267

)

  

16.0

%

Loss on early retirement of debt

  

 

—  

 

  

 

(1,221

)

  

 

1,221

 

  

-100.0

%

Other income (expense)

  

 

423

 

  

 

(31

)

  

 

454

 

  

-1464.5

%

    


  


  


      

Total other expense

  

 

(1,513

)

  

 

(2,921

)

  

 

1,408

 

  

-48.2

%

    


  


  


      

Loss before income taxes

  

 

(45,042

)

  

 

3,562

 

  

 

(48,604

)

  

-1364.5

%

Income tax benefit

  

 

(62

)

  

 

(808

)

  

 

746

 

  

-92.3

%

    


  


  


      

Net loss

  

$

(44,980

)

  

$

4,370

 

  

$

(49,350

)

  

-1129.3

%

    


  


  


      

 

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Seven Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Seven Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

                  

Changes


 
    

Seven Months Ended


    

Fiscal 2003

Versus

Fiscal 2002


 
    

March 31, 2003


    

March 31, 2002


    

$


    

%


 

Net revenues

  

$

101,589

 

  

$

160,188

 

  

$

(58,599

)

  

-36.6

%

Cost of revenue

  

 

76,507

 

  

 

62,891

 

  

 

13,616

 

  

21.7

%

    


  


  


      

Gross profit

  

 

25,082

 

  

 

97,297

 

  

 

(72,215

)

  

-74.2

%

    


  


  


      

Operating expenses

                                 

Marketing and selling

  

 

32,295

 

  

 

30,132

 

  

 

2,163

 

  

7.2

%

General and administrative

  

 

24,549

 

  

 

25,165

 

  

 

(616

)

  

-2.4

%

Research and development

  

 

25,392

 

  

 

23,133

 

  

 

2,259

 

  

9.8

%

Restructuring charges

  

 

4,824

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

4,824

 

  

0.0

%

Impairment on building held for sale

  

 

2,146

 

  

 

—  

 

  

 

2,146

 

  

0.0

%

    


  


  


      

Total operating expenses

  

 

89,206

 

  

 

78,430

 

  

 

10,776

 

  

13.7

%

    


  


  


      

(Loss) earnings from operations

  

 

(64,124

)

  

 

18,867

 

  

 

(82,991

)

  

-439.9

%

    


  


  


      

Other income (expense)

                                 

Interest expense, net

  

 

(4,073

)

  

 

(5,301

)

  

 

1,228

 

  

-23.2

%

Loss on early retirement of debt

  

 

—  

 

  

 

(1,221

)

  

 

1,221

 

  

NA

 

Other income (expense)

  

 

201

 

  

 

(843

)

  

 

1,044

 

  

-123.8

%

    


  


  


      

Total other expense

  

 

(3,872

)

  

 

(7,365

)

  

 

3,493

 

  

-47.4

%

    


  


  


      

(Loss) earnings before income taxes

  

 

(67,996

)

  

 

11,502

 

  

 

(79,498

)

  

-691.2

%

Income tax benefit

  

 

(191

)

  

 

(944

)

  

 

753

 

  

-79.8

%

    


  


  


      

Net (loss) earnings

  

$

(67,805

)

  

$

12,446

 

  

$

(80,251

)

  

-644.8

%

    


  


  


      

 

Net Revenue

 

Net revenue is derived primarily from shipping interactive entertainment software to customers. Our software functions on dedicated game platforms, including Sony’s PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 1, Microsoft’s Xbox, as well as Nintendo’s GameCube and Game Boy Advance. We record revenue net of a provision for price concessions and returns, as discussed above under “Critical Accounting Policies.

 

 

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Summarized below is information about our gross revenue by game console for the three and seven months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002. Please note that the numbers in the schedule below do not include the effect of provisions for price concessions and returns because we do not track them by game console. Accordingly, the numbers presented may vary materially from those that we would disclose were we able to present the information net of provisions for price concessions and returns.

 

      

Three Months Ended


      

Seven Months Ended


 
      

March 31, 2003


      

March 31, 2002


      

March 31, 2003


      

March 31, 2002


 

Cartridge-based software:

                                   

Nintendo Game Boy

    

3

%

    

10

%

    

4

%

    

8

%

      

    

    

    

Subtotal for cartridge-based software

    

3

%

    

10

%

    

4

%

    

8

%

      

    

    

    

Disc-based software:

                                   

Sony PlayStation 2: 128-bit

    

65

%

    

54

%

    

64

%

    

57

%

Sony PlayStation 1: 32-bit

    

1

%

    

6

%

    

3

%

    

7

%

Microsoft Xbox: 128-bit

    

19

%

    

11

%

    

15

%

    

8

%

Nintendo GameCube: 128-bit

    

10

%

    

18

%

    

13

%

    

19

%

      

    

    

    

Subtotal for disc-based software

    

95

%

    

89

%

    

95

%

    

91

%

      

    

    

    

PC software

    

2

%

    

1

%

    

1

%

    

1

%

      

    

    

    

Total

    

100

%

    

100

%

    

100

%

    

100

%

      

    

    

    

 

Summarized below is information about our software franchises that represented 5% or more of gross revenue for the three and seven months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002:

 

           

Three Months Ended


      

Seven Months Ended


 

Software Franchise


  

Platform


    

March 31, 2003


      

March 31, 2002


      

March 31, 2003


      

March 31, 2002


 

All Star Baseball

  

Multiple

    

19

%

    

29

%

    

8

%

    

15

%

ATV

  

Multiple

    

17

%

    

2

%

    

7

%

    

2

%

Vexx

  

Multiple

    

14

%

    

—  

 

    

5

%

    

—  

 

Legends of Wrestling

  

Multiple

    

8

%

    

8

%

    

11

%

    

8

%

Burnout

  

Multiple

    

7

%

    

6

%

    

20

%

    

12

%

Dakar Rally

  

Multiple

    

6

%

    

1

%

    

2

%

    

2

%

Crazy Taxi

  

Multiple

    

4

%

    

3

%

    

4

%

    

8

%

Mary-Kate & Ashley

  

Multiple

    

2

%

    

5

%

    

5

%

    

5

%

BMX XXX

  

Multiple

    

2

%

    

—  

 

    

9

%

    

—  

 

Turok

  

Multiple

    

2

%

    

—  

 

    

8

%

    

—  

 

18 Wheeler

  

Multiple

    

1

%

    

5

%

    

1

%

    

5

%

Shadowman

  

Multiple

    

1

%

    

9

%

    

—  

 

    

4

%

Extreme G3

  

Multiple

    

—  

 

    

5

%

    

1

%

    

5

%

Supercross

  

Multiple

    

—  

 

    

6

%

    

1

%

    

5

%

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, net revenue of $28.0 million decreased by $38.9 million, or 58%, from $66.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2002. The decrease was caused by a $13.3 million decrease in gross revenue and a $25.6 million increase in the net provision for price concessions and returns.

 

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The $13.3 million decrease in gross revenue was primarily attributable to sequel titles generating lower gross revenues during fiscal 2003 than the earlier versions generated in the same period of the prior year due to a reduction in the average domestic selling price per unit as well as lower unit quantities shipped for certain sequel products. The $25.6 million increase in the estimated amount of price concessions and returns for fiscal 2003 was primarily due to an increase in the estimated amount of price concessions and returns for the fiscal 2003 product shipments that will be provided to major retailers because of the general decrease in retail channel sell through rates of our products caused by greater competition in the marketplace, the general lack of market acceptance of platform, genre, games, as well as lower consumer acceptance of games released for the GameCube platform.

 

Sales of software titles for the top three game systems accounted for 94% of gross revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2003 compared to 83% for the three months ended March 31, 2002. We achieved the greatest level of sales from software titles released for PlayStation 2 which to date has the highest installed base of the three game systems.

 

Products developed by our internal studios generated 54% of our gross revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2003 as compared to 67% for the three months ended March 31, 2002.

 

Seven Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Seven Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, net revenue of $101.6 million decreased by $58.6 million, or 37%, from $160.2 million for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. The decrease was caused by a $16.1 million decrease in gross revenue and a $42.5 million increase in the net provision for price concessions and returns.

 

The $16.1 million decrease in gross revenue was primarily attributable to sequel titles generating lower gross revenues during fiscal 2003 than the earlier versions generated in the same period of the prior year due to a reduction in the average domestic selling price per unit as well as lower unit quantities shipped for certain sequel products. The $42.5 million increase in the net provision for price concessions and returns was primarily due to a $25.7 million increase in the estimated amount of price concessions and returns for fiscal 2003 product shipments that will be provided to major retailers because of the general decrease in retail channel sell through rates of our products caused by greater competition in the marketplace, the general lack of market acceptance of platform, genre, games, as well as lower consumer acceptance of games released for the GameCube platform.

 

 

 

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In addition, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002, we released the software titles Turok: Evolution and Aggressive Inline which we anticipated would be significant revenue drivers and valuable additions to our product catalog. The market reception to these products, as evidenced by the retail sell-through rates to consumers in the first quarter of fiscal 2003 and subsequently, fell significantly below our expectations. As a result of the poor retail sell-through, significant quantities of these products remained in the retail channel as of September 30, 2002. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002 we provided for price concessions more rapidly after the initial release date than was our historical practice and recorded a $17.9 million provision for price concessions on these products that we believed would have resulted in additional sell-through to our retail customers through the holiday season. During the seven months ended March 31, 2003, while the price concessions we offered our retail customers did increase the retail sell-through rate, the reduction of retail channel inventory fell below the level we had originally estimated and consequently, we also experienced significantly more returns of these two products from our retail customers than we originally had estimated. Additionally, the market for GameCube products, after the 2002 holiday season softened, which required us to provide price concessions on our products for that platform to lower prices than originally estimated and the actual retail sell-through rates of Legends of Wrestling and BMX were less than the projected retail sell-through rates we had used in our previous estimates of allowances, which were based on historical experience, and actual sell-through rates for those products through August 31, 2002. As a result of these events, we will need to provide our customers additional price concessions. The resulting $14.4 million increase to the provision for price concessions and returns negatively impacted net revenues for the seven months ended March 31, 2003.

 

Sales of software titles for the top three game systems accounted for 92% of gross revenue for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 compared to 84% for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. We achieved the greatest level of sales from software titles released for PlayStation 2 which to date has the highest installed base of the three game systems.

 

Products developed by our internal studios generated 39% of our gross revenue for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 as compared to 54% for the seven months ended March 31, 2002.

 

Gross Profit

 

Gross profit is derived from net revenue after deducting cost of revenue. Cost of revenue primarily consists of product manufacturing costs (primarily disc and manufacturing royalty costs), amortization of capitalized software development costs and fees paid to third-party distributors for games sold overseas. Our gross profit is significantly affected by the:

 

    level of our provision for price concessions and returns which directly affects our net revenue (please see discussion of “Net Revenue”),

 

    level of capitalized software development costs for specific game titles,

 

    level of inventory write downs to the lower of cost or market and

 

    fees paid to third-party distributors for software sold overseas.

 

 

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Gross profit as a percentage of net revenue for foreign game software sales to third-party distributors are generally one-third lower than those on sales we make directly to foreign retailers.

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, we had a gross loss of $9.6 million (34% of net revenue) compared to gross profit of $37.9 million (57% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2002, a decrease of $47.5 million. The decreased gross profit was primarily due to a:

 

    $6.0 million increase in amortization of capitalized software development costs due primarily to the releases of Vexx, All Star Baseball 2004 and Legends of Wrestling II,

 

    $25.6 million increase in the provision for price concessions and returns (please see “Net Revenue”),

 

    $12.0 million decrease in revenue due to lower selling prices per unit primarily related to a multi-tiered pricing strategy for newly released and catalog software titles under which certain software titles were sold at lower price points during the three months ended March 31, 2003 than in the same period of the prior year, and a

 

    $3.9 million write down of excess inventory to its expected net realizable value.

 

These matters combined with lower gross revenue and lower than historical average selling prices for the 2003 quarter caused the gross loss for the period.

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, amortization of capitalized software development costs amounted to $10.0 million as compared to $4.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2002.

 

Seven Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Seven Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, gross profit of $25.1 million (25% of net revenue) decreased by $72.2 million from $97.3 million (61% of net revenue) for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. The decreased gross profit was primarily due to a:

 

    $10.5 million increase in amortization of capitalized software development costs due primarily to the releases of Vexx, All Star Baseball 2004 and Legends of Wrestling II and a

 

    $42.5 million increase in the provision for price concessions and returns (please see “Net Revenue”) and a

 

    $19.2 million decrease in revenue due to lower selling prices per unit related to a multi-tiered pricing strategy whereby certain software titles were sold at lower price points during the seven months ended March 31, 2003 than in the same period of the prior year, and a

 

    $3.9 million write down of excess inventory to its expected net realizable value.

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, amortization of capitalized software development costs amounted to $17.1 million as compared to $6.6 million for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. Capitalized software development costs, net, amounted to $6.6 million as of March 31, 2003 and $15.1 million as of August 31, 2002.

 

Gross profit in fiscal 2004 will depend in large part on the rate of growth of the software market for 128-bit game consoles (Sony’s PlayStation 2, Nintendo’s GameCube and Microsoft’s Xbox) and our ability to identify, develop and timely publish, in accordance with our product release schedule, software that sells through at projected levels at retail. See “Factors Affecting Future Performance: Our Ability to Meet Cash Requirements and Maintain Necessary Liquidity Rests in Part on the Cooperation of Our Primary Lender and Vendors, and Our Ability to Achieve Our Projected Revenue Levels and Reduce Operating Expenses.”

 

Operating Expenses

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, operating expenses of $34.0 million (121% of net revenue) increased by $2.5 million, or 8%, from $31.4 million (47% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31,

 

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2002. For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, operating expenses of $89.2 million (88% of net revenue) increased by $10.8 million, or 14%, from $78.4 million (49% of net revenue) for the seven months ended March 31, 2002.

 

Marketing and Selling

 

Marketing and selling expenses consist primarily of personnel, advertising, cooperative advertising, trade shows, promotions, sales commissions and licensing costs.

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, marketing and selling expenses of $9.6 million (34% of net revenue) decreased by $2.2 million, or 18%, from $11.8 million (18% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2002. The decrease resulted from a $2.2 million decrease in marketing and advertising expenditures that were curtailed to bolster short-term liquidity (please see discussion under “Liquidity and Capital Resources”) and a $0.7 million reduction in sales commissions due to the reduction in net revenue, partially offset by a $0.7 million increase in licensing costs. The increase in licensing costs resulted from a $1.1 million recovery of previously paid licensing costs in the same period of the prior year.

 

Seven Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Seven Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, marketing and selling expenses of $32.3 million (32% of net revenue) increased by $2.2 million, or 7%, from $30.1 million (19% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2002. The increase was primarily due to a $4.0 million increase in licensing costs, partially offset by a $1.8 million decrease in marketing and advertising expenditures that were curtailed to improve short-term liquidity (please see discussion under “Liquidity and Capital Resources”). The increase in licensing costs resulted from a $4.4 million reduction of accrued expenses for obligations that ceased under certain expired intellectual property agreements in the same period of the prior year. Excluding such reduction, licensing costs would have decreased by $0.4 million for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 compared to the same period of the prior year.

 

General and Administrative

 

General and administrative expenses consist of employee-related expenses of executive and administrative departments, fees for professional services, non-studio occupancy costs and other infrastructure costs.

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, general and administrative expenses of $10.9 million (39% of net revenue) increased by $0.2 million, or 2%, from $10.7 million (16% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2002. The increase resulted from higher insurance and legal expenses totaling $0.9 million partially offset by savings in employee related expenses of $0.7 million. The 23% increase in general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net revenue resulted from decreased net revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2003 as compared to the same period last year.

 

Seven Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Seven Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, general and administrative expenses of $24.5 million (24% of net revenue) decreased by $0.6 million, or 2%, from $25.2 million (16% of net revenue) for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. The decrease resulted from savings in employee related expenses of $1.0 million and consulting fees of $0.4 million partially offset by higher insurance and accounting expenses of $0.8 million. The 8% increase in general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net revenue resulted from decreased net revenue in the seven months ended March 31, 2003 as compared to the same period last year.

 

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Administrative employee headcount was approximately 160 as of March 31, 2003 as compared to 230 as of August 31, 2002 reflecting an approximate 44% reduction. The decrease in headcount resulted from the business restructuring we implemented during the seven months ended March 31, 2003 in order to lower our operating expenses and increase our future operating cash flows. Please see “Restructuring Charges,” and “Liquidity and Capital Resources” as well as Note 11 (Accrued Restructuring Charges) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

Research and Development

 

Research and development expenses consist of employee-related and occupancy costs associated with our internal studios as well as contractual external software development costs.

 

Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, research and development expenses of $11.0 million (39% of net revenue) increased by $2.0 million, or 23%, from $9.0 million (13% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2002. The increase was primarily due to a $4.8 million decrease in the amount of software development costs capitalized in the 2003 period because costs incurred related to software titles under development that met the test of technological feasibility were lower in 2003 as compared to 2002 (please see discussion of “Capitalized Software Development Costs” under “Critical Accounting Policies”). These decreases were partially offset by a

 

    $1.5 million decrease in internal software development costs driven by the closing of our Salt Lake City software development studio (please see “Restructuring Charges”) and a

 

    $1.3 million decrease in external software development costs.

 

Seven Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Seven Months Ended March 31, 2002

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, research and development expenses of $25.4 million (25% of net revenue) increased by $2.3 million, or 10%, from $23.1 million (14% of net revenue) for the seven months ended March 31, 2002.

 

The increase was primarily due to a:

 

    $2.1 million write-off of software development costs related to several software titles for which we ceased development primarily because they were no longer considered economically viable,

 

    $2.0 million increase in employee related costs associated with certain internal development studios, and a

 

    $1.0 million decrease in the amount of software development costs capitalized because costs incurred related to software titles under development that met the test of technological feasibility were lower in 2003 as compared to 2002 (please see discussion of “Capitalized Software Development Costs” under “Critical Accounting Policies”).

 

The above noted increases were partially offset by a:

 

    $2.0 million decrease in employee related costs associated with the closing of our Salt Lake City studio (please see “Restructuring Charges”) and a

 

    $0.3 million decrease in external development costs.

 

Restructuring Charges

 

Restructuring charges consist of severance and other termination benefits, lease commitment costs, net of estimated sub-lease rental income, asset write-offs and other incremental costs associated with restructuring activities.

 

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In December 2002 and January 2003, we restructured our operations in order to lower our operating expenses and improve our operating cash flows. Under the plan, we closed our software development studio located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and reduced global administrative headcount. The studio closing was designed to achieve financial efficiencies through consolidation of all our domestic internal product development into our Austin, Texas studio. The closure of the development studio and reduction of global administrative headcount reduced our overall headcount by approximately 100 employees and resulted in restructuring charges of $4.5 million during the month of December 2002 and another $0.3 million during the quarter ended March 31, 2003. The restructuring charges include accruals for employee termination costs, the write-off of certain fixed assets and leasehold improvements and the development studio lease commitment, which is net of estimated sub-lease rental income. The development studio lease commitment expires in May 2007 and the severance agreements expire at various times through April 2004.

 

No restructuring charges were incurred for the three and seven months ended March 31, 2002.

 

The following table presents the components of restructuring charges incurred for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 and the change in accrued restructuring charges from August 31, 2002 to March 31, 2003.

 

(in thousands)

      

Beginning balance as of August 31, 2002

  

$

—    

 

Severance and other employee termination benefits

  

 

3,783

 

Lease commitment, net of estimated sub-lease rental income

  

 

567

 

Asset write-offs

  

 

436

 

Other costs

  

 

38

 

    


Restructuring charges incurred and expensed

  

 

4,824

 

Less: costs paid

  

 

(2,525

)

    


Ending balance as of March 31, 2003

  

$

2,299

 

    


 

Impairment on Building Held for Sale

 

In February 2003, we recorded an impairment charge of $2.1 million for a building which is being held for sale in the United Kingdom, to adjust its net carrying value to its fair value of $5.4 million, net of expected selling costs. We expect the building to be sold within a year.

 

Other Income and Expense

 

Interest Expense, Net

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, interest expense, net, of $1.9 million (7% of net revenue) increased by $0.2 million, from $1.7 million (2% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2002. The increase was due primarily to noncash charges of $0.3 million associated with issuances of our common stock and warrants to two of our executive officers (please see discussion under “Liquidity and Capital Resources”) and interest incurred on cash advances received from our primary lender under our North American credit agreement, partially offset by reduced interest expense relating to our 10% convertible subordinated notes, which were repaid in March 2002.

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, interest expense, net, of $4.1 million (4% of net revenue) decreased by $1.2 million, or 23%, from $5.3 million (3% of net revenue) for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. The decrease was primarily due to reduced interest expense relating to our 10% convertible subordinated notes, which were repaid in March 2002.

 

Loss on Early Retirement of Debt

 

During the three months ended March 31, 2002, we recorded a loss of $1.2 million when we issued a total of 4,209,420 shares of our common stock with a fair value of $14.5 million for the early retirement of $12.7 million

 

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in principal amount of our 10% convertible subordinated notes and the repayment of $0.6 million in accrued interest.

 

Other Income (Expense)

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, other income (expense) amounted to income of $0.4 million (1.5% of net revenue) as compared to expense of $31,000 (0.1% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2002. The primary component of the expense decrease is a $0.7 million increase in net foreign currency transaction gains associated with our international operations.

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, other income (expense) amounted to income of $0.2 million as compared to expense of $0.8 million (0.5% of net revenue) for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. The $1.0 million expense decrease resulted primarily from a $1.0 million penalty we paid to investors in the seven months ended March 31, 2002 relating to the July 2001 private placement because of a delay in the effectiveness of the registration statement we filed to register the issued common stock.

 

Income Taxes

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, income tax benefit of $0.1 million (0.2% of net revenue) decreased by $0.7 million, or 92%, from $0.8 million (1% of net revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2002. The higher income tax benefit for the three months ended March 31, 2002 resulted from a one-time foreign tax credit we received in connection with tax returns filed in prior years.

 

As of March 31, 2003, we had a U.S. tax net operating loss carryforward of approximately $240.0 million, which expires in fiscal years 2011 through 2023.

 

Net (Loss) Earnings

 

For the three months ended March 31, 2003, we reported a net loss of $45.0 million, or $0.49 per diluted share (based on weighted average diluted shares outstanding of 92,665,000), as compared to net earnings of $4.4 million, or $0.05 per diluted share (based on weighted average diluted shares outstanding of 90,114,000) for the three months ended March 31, 2002.

 

For the seven months ended March 31, 2003, we reported a net loss of $67.8 million, or $0.73 per diluted share (based on weighted average diluted shares outstanding of 92,568,000), as compared to net income of $12.4 million, or $0.14 per diluted share (based on weighted average diluted shares outstanding of 86,011,000) for the seven months ended March 31, 2002.

 

Seasonality

 

Our business is seasonal, with higher revenue and operating income typically occurring during the periods we released titles for the holiday selling season. The timing of when we deliver software titles and release new products can cause material fluctuations in quarterly revenue and earnings, which can cause operating results to vary from the seasonal patterns of the industry as a whole. Please see “Factors Affecting Future Performance: Revenue Vary Due to the Seasonal Nature of Video and Computer Game Software Purchases.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

As of March 31, 2003, cash and cash equivalents were $4.5 million. During the seven months ended March 31, 2003, cash and cash equivalents decreased by $46.5 million compared to a net decrease of $8.7 million for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. The primary contributor to the increased use of cash in the seven months ended March 31, 2003 as compared to the same period in the prior year were changes in cash flows

 

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used in and provided by financing activities. During the seven months ended March 31, 2003, we repaid a net $23.4 million of short-term bank loans compared to the seven months ended March 31, 2002 when we received net proceeds of $1.8 million from short-term bank loans. Also during the seven months ended March 31, 2002, we repaid $12.2 million in convertible notes and received $21.5 million in proceeds from the issuance of common stock.

 

As of March 31, 2003, the working capital deficit of $63.6 million increased by $56.2 million over the $7.3 million working capital deficit as of August 31, 2002. The $56.2 million increase in the working capital deficit during the seven months ended March 31, 2003 resulted primarily from the $67.8 million net loss in the period.

 

Please see “Factors Affecting Future Performance: Our Ability to Meet Cash Requirements and Maintain Necessary Liquidity Rests in Part on the Cooperation of our Primary Lender and Vendors, and Our Ability to Achieve Our Projected Revenue Levels and Reduce Operating Expenses.”

 

Short-Term Liquidity

 

At August 31, 2002, our independent auditors’ report, as prepared by KPMG LLP and dated October 17, 2002, which appears in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 2002, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the substantial doubt as to the ability of Acclaim to continue as a going concern due to a working capital deficit as of August 31, 2002 and the recurring use of cash in operating activities. For the seven months ended March 31, 2003 we had a net loss of $67,805 and used $20,694 of cash in operating activities. As of March 31, 2003 we have a stockholders’ deficit of $46,158, a working capital deficit of $63,496 and $4,495 of cash and cash equivalents. These factors have continued to raise substantial doubt as to the ability of Acclaim to continue as a going concern. Based on management’s plans described below, the accompanying financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.

 

Our short-term liquidity is being supplemented with borrowings under our North American and International credit facilities with our primary lender. To enhance our short-term liquidity, during the seven months ended March 31, 2003 we implemented targeted expense reductions through a business restructuring under which we reduced fixed and variable expenses, closed our Salt Lake City software development studio, redeployed various assets, eliminated certain marginal titles under development, reduced staff and staff related expenses and lowered marketing expenditures. Additionally, on March 31, 2003, our primary lender advanced us a supplemental discretionary loan of up to $11.0 million through May 31, 2003, and $5,000 through September 29, 2003. In May 2003, two of our executive officers, referred to as the Affiliates, each committed to our Board of Directors to prepay a portion of their outstanding loans due to us, in the amount of $2.0 million each. Please see “Related Party Transactions” and note 16 (Related Party Transactions) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on our cash resources, including the $11.0 million supplemental discretionary loan provided by our primary lender and assuming that our primary lender consents, based upon our existing collateral, to provide us supplemental financing during the second half of fiscal 2004, although we can provide no assurance to our investors that we will be able to receive such consents, and the $4.0 million cash commitment from the Affiliates, and assuming we achieve our sales forecast by successfully meeting our product release schedule as provided in our business operating plan, and giving effect to the continued realization of savings from our implemented expense reductions, and provided we continue to enjoy the support of our primary lender and vendors, we expect to have sufficient cash resources to meet our projected cash and operating requirements through the next twelve months. The Company continues to pursue financing and investment arrangements with outside investors.

 

In the event that we do not achieve the product release schedule, sales assumptions or continue to derive expense savings from our implemented expense reductions, or our primary lender does not consent, based upon our existing collateral, to provide us supplemental financing during the second half of fiscal 2004, we cannot assure investors that our future operating cash flows will be sufficient to meet our operating requirements, our debt service requirements or repay our indebtedness at maturity, including without limitation, repayment of the supplemental discretionary loan. In any such event, our operations and liquidity will be materially and adversely affected and we could be forced to cease operations.

 

During the seven months ended March 31, 2003, we repaid net advances of $23.4 million under short-term bank loans.

 

 

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In order to meet our debt service obligations, at various times we may depend on obtaining dividends, advances and transfers of funds from our subsidiaries. State and foreign laws regulate the payment of dividends by these subsidiaries, which is also subject to the terms of our North American credit agreement. A significant portion of our assets, operations, trade payables and indebtedness is located among our foreign subsidiaries. The creditors of the subsidiaries would generally recover from these assets on the obligations owed to them by the subsidiaries before any recovery by our creditors and before any assets are distributed to our stockholders.

 

Long-Term Liquidity

 

Our long-term liquidity will be significantly dependent on our ability to (1) timely develop and market new software products that achieve widespread market acceptance for use with the hardware platforms that dominate the market, (2) realize long-term benefits from our implemented expense reductions, as well as (3) continue to enjoy the support of our primary lender and vendors. Please see note 12 (Debt) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

If we do not substantially achieve the overall projected revenue levels and realize any additional benefits from the expense reductions we implemented over the next 12 months as reflected in our business operating plan, or obtain supplemental discretionary financing from our primary lender to fund operations, we will either need to make further significant expense reductions, including, without limitation, the sale of certain assets or the consolidation or closing of certain operations, staff reductions, and/or the delay, cancellation or reduction of certain product development and marketing programs. Additionally, some of these measures may require third party consents or approvals from our primary lender and there can be no assurance that such consents or approvals can be obtained.

 

In the event that we do not achieve the product release schedule, sales assumptions or continue to derive expense savings from our implemented expense reductions, or our primary lender does not consent, based upon our existing collateral, to provide us supplemental financing during the second half of fiscal 2004, we cannot assure investors that our future operating cash flows will be sufficient to meet our operating requirements, our debt service requirements or repay our indebtedness at maturity, including without limitation, repayment of the supplemental discretionary loan. In any such event, our operations and liquidity will be materially and adversely affected and we could be forced to cease operations.

 

Please see discussion regarding our North American credit agreement below as well as in Note 12 (Debt) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Please also see “Factors Affecting Future Performance: Our Ability to Meet Cash Requirements and Maintain Necessary Liquidity Rests in Part on the Cooperation of our Primary Lender and Vendors, and Our Ability to Achieve Our Projected Revenue Levels and Reduce Operating Expenses.”

 

Credit Agreements

 

We established a relationship with our primary lender in 1989 when we entered into our North American credit agreement. The North American credit agreement expires on August 31, 2003. This agreement automatically renews for additional one-year periods, unless our primary lender or we terminate the agreement with 90 days’ prior notice. We and our primary lender are also parties to a factoring agreement that expires on August 31, 2003. The factoring agreement also provides for automatic renewals for additional one-year periods, unless terminated by either party upon 90 days’ prior notice.

 

While we anticipate that we will be able to renew the North American credit and factoring agreements with our primary lender (please see “Factoring Agreement” and “North American Credit Agreement” below) as we have in the past, we cannot provide any assurance of this. If we are unable to renew the North American credit and factoring agreements, we will need to secure financing with another institution. We cannot assure investors that we would be able to secure such an arrangement in a timely and cost effective manner, if at all. If we failed to secure financing with another financial institution, we could become insolvent, liquidated or reorganized, after

 

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payment of the outstanding balances due first to our primary lender and then to our other creditors, leaving insufficient assets remaining for distribution to stockholders.

 

Pursuant to the terms of the North American credit agreement, we are required to maintain specified levels of working capital and tangible net worth, among other financial covenants. As of March 31, 2003, we were not in compliance with those financial covenants. We received waivers from our primary lender regarding our non-compliance. While we anticipate that we will not be in compliance with all of the financial covenants contained in the North American credit agreement in the near term, and we anticipate being able to obtain necessary waivers as we have in the past, we may not be able to obtain waivers of any future covenant violations. If we become insolvent, are liquidated or reorganized, after payment to our creditors, there are likely to be insufficient assets remaining for distribution to stockholders.

 

Factoring Agreement

 

Under the factoring agreement, we assign to our primary lender and our primary lender purchases from us, our U.S. accounts receivable. Our primary lender remits payments to us for the assigned U.S. accounts receivable that are within the financial parameters set forth in our factoring agreement. Those financial parameters include requirements that invoice amounts meet approved credit limits and that the customer does not dispute the invoices. The purchase price of our accounts receivable that we assign to our factor equals the invoiced amount, which is adjusted for any returns, discounts and other customer credits or allowances. Please see Note 2 (Accounts Receivable) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part I of Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

Before our primary lender purchases our U.S. accounts receivable and remits payment to us for the purchase price, it may, in its discretion, provide us cash advances under our North American credit agreement (please see discussion below) taking into account the assigned receivables due from our customers which it expects to purchase, among other things. As of March 31, 2003, our primary lender was advancing us 60% of the eligible receivables due from our customers. As of March 31, 2003, the factoring charge was 0.25% of assigned accounts receivable with invoice payment terms of up to 60 days and an additional 0.125% for each additional 30 days or portion thereof. Under the North American credit agreement, our primary lender generally advances cash to us based on a borrowing formula that primarily takes into account the balance of our eligible U.S. receivables that the primary lender expects to purchase in the future, and 50% of our inventory which is not in excess of 90 days old and equipment and other asset balances.

 

North American Credit Agreement

 

Advances to us under the North American credit agreement bear interest at 1.50% per annum above our primary lender’s prime rate (5.75% as of March 31, 2003).

 

Borrowings that our primary lender may provide us in excess of an availability formula bear interest at 2.00% above our primary lender’s prime rate. Under our North American credit agreement, we may not borrow more than $30.0 million or the amount calculated using the availability formula, whichever is less. Our primary lender has secured all of our obligations under the North American credit agreement with substantially all of our assets.

 

On March 31, 2003, our primary lender and we amended our North American credit agreement to allow for supplemental discretionary loans of up to $11.0 million through May 31, 2003, and $5.0 million through September 29, 2003 above the standard formula for short-term funding. On September 30, 2003, we are required to repay any amounts owed above the standard formula. As a condition for the amendment, the Affiliates pledged an aggregate cash deposit of $2.0 million with our primary lender in order to provide a limited guarantee of our obligations. Our primary lender will return the cash deposit provided by the affiliates within five days following our timely repayment of the supplemental discretionary loans. As consideration to the Affiliates for making the

 

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deposit, and based upon the advice of, and a fairness opinion obtained from an independent financial advisor, on March 31, 2003, the Audit Committed approved and the Board of Directors authorized the issuance to each Affiliate 2,000,000 shares of our common stock with an aggregate market value of $1.6 million and a warrant to purchase 500,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.50 per share with an aggregate fair value of $0.3 million. We are expensing the fair value of the consideration provided to the affiliates as a non-cash financing expense over the period between the date the supplemental loans were advanced and the date by which they are required to be fully repaid. During the seven months ended March 31, 2003, we expensed $0.3 million of the consideration, which is included in interest expense. We have entered into an agreement with each of the Affiliates which stipulates that in the event the deposit is applied by our primary lender to our outstanding supplemental loan obligations and not returned to the Affiliates, we will either repay such amount to the Affiliates or offset such amount, to the extent permitted by applicable law, against the balance of any net amounts due to us by the affiliates. Please see note 12 (Debt) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part I of Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

As additional security for discretionary supplemental loans we received in fiscal 2002 and 2001, the Affiliates personally pledged as collateral an aggregate of 1,568,000 shares of our common stock. If the market value of the pledged stock (based on a ten trading day average reviewed by our primary lender monthly) decreases below $5.0 million while we have a supplemental discretionary loan outstanding and the Affiliates do not deliver additional shares of our common stock to cover the shortfall, then our primary lender is entitled to reduce the outstanding supplemental loan by an amount equal to the shortfall. Our primary lender will release the 1,568,000 shares of pledged common stock to the Affiliates pledged following a 30-day period in which we are not in an overformula position exceeding $1.0 million and are in compliance with the financial covenant requirements in the North American credit agreement.

 

If we do not substantially achieve the overall projected revenue levels, and realize any additional benefits from the expense reductions we plan to implement over the next twelve months as reflected in our business operating plan, or obtain sufficient additional financing to fund operations, our cash and projected cash flow from operations in fiscal 2004 would be insufficient to repay the supplemental discretionary loan when due and we would be required to restructure our indebtedness. We cannot guarantee that we would be able to restructure or refinance our debt on satisfactory terms, if at all, or obtain permission to do so under the terms of our existing indebtedness as some of these measures may require third party consents or approvals from our primary lender. Our failure to meet those obligations could result in defaults being declared by our primary lender, and our primary lender seeking its remedies, including immediate repayment of the debt and/or foreclosure on collateral, which could force us to become insolvent or cease operations.

 

Advances outstanding under the North American credit agreement within the standard borrowing formula amounted to $4.2 million as of March 31, 2003 and $42.3 million as of August 31, 2002. Discretionary supplemental loans outstanding amounted to $11.0 million as of March 31, 2003. No discretionary supplemental loans were outstanding as of August 31, 2002. We repaid net advances of $23.4 million in the seven months ended March 31, 2003, and received net proceeds of $1.8 million in the seven months ended March 31, 2002 under the North American credit agreement.

 

International Credit Facility and Factoring Agreement

 

We, through Acclaim Entertainment, Ltd., our U.K. subsidiary, and GMAC Commercial Credit Limited, our U.K. bank and an affiliate of our primary lender, are parties to a seven-year term secured credit facility we entered into in March 2000, related to our purchase of a building in the U. K. Our borrowings under that international facility, which may not exceed $5.8 million (£3.8 million), bear interest at LIBOR plus 2.00%. Our U.K. bank has secured all obligations under this facility with substantially all of our subsidiaries’ assets including the building. We and several of our foreign subsidiaries have guaranteed the obligations of Acclaim Entertainment, Ltd. under this facility and the related agreements. As of March 31, 2003, the building with which the credit facility was secured was being held for sale and, accordingly, we reclassified the building as held for

 

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sale and the associated mortgage payable of $4.6 million (£2.9 million) under the international facility as a separate component of current liabilities. Please see note 6 (Building Held for Sale) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part I of Item 1 on this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

Several of our international subsidiaries are parties to international receivable factoring facilities with our U.K. bank. Under the facilities, our international subsidiaries assign the majority of their accounts receivable to the U.K. bank, on a full recourse basis. Under the facilities, upon receipt by the U.K. bank of confirmation that our subsidiary has delivered product to our customers and remitted the appropriate documentation to the U.K. bank, the U.K. bank remits payments to our subsidiary, net of discounts and administrative charges.

 

Under the international receivable facilities, we can obtain financing of up to the lesser of approximately $18.0 million or 60% of the aggregate amount of eligible receivables from our international operations. The amounts we borrow under the international facility bear interest at 2.00% per annum above LIBOR (5.17% as of March 31, 2003). This international facility has a term of three years, which automatically renews for additional one-year periods thereafter unless either our U.K. bank or we terminate it upon 90 days’ prior notice. Our U.K bank has secured the international facility with the accounts receivable and assets of our international subsidiaries that participate in the facility. We had an outstanding balance under the international facility of $4.1 million as of March 31, 2003 and $0.8 million as of August 31, 2002.

 

Commitments

 

We generally purchase our inventory of Nintendo software by opening letters of credit when placing the purchase order. As of March 31, 2003, we had $.8 million outstanding under letters of credit. Approximately $.4 million as of March 31, 2003 of our trade accounts payable balances were collateralized under outstanding letters of credit. Other than such letters of credit and operating lease commitments, as of March 31, 2003, we did not have any significant operating or capital expenditure commitments.

 

As of March 31, 2003, our future contractual cash obligations were as follows:

 

    

Payments Due Within


Contractual Obligations


  

Total


  

1 year


  

2-3 years


  

4-5 years


         

(In thousands)

    

Debt

  

$

30,063

  

$

30,063

  

$

—  

  

$

—  

Capital lease obligations

  

 

1,489

  

 

804

  

 

674

  

 

11

Operating leases

  

 

8,950

  

 

3,188

  

 

4,832

  

 

930

    

  

  

  

Total contractual cash obligations

  

$

40,502

  

$

34,055

  

$

5,506

  

 

941

    

  

  

  

 

New Accounting Pronouncements

 

In June 2002, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB or the “Board”) issued SFAS No. 146 “Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities.” This statement supercedes Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) Issue No. 94-3, “Liability Recognition for Certain Employee Termination Benefits and Other Costs to Exit an Activity (including Certain Costs Incurred in a Restructuring).” SFAS No. 146 requires that a liability for a cost associated with an exit or disposal activity be recognized when the liability is incurred. Under EITF 94-3, a liability is recognized at the date an entity commits to an exit plan. SFAS No. 146 also establishes that the liability should initially be measured and recorded at fair value. We implemented the provisions of SFAS No. 146 during the three months ended March 31, 2003 in connection with our restructuring activities. Please see note 11.

 

In November 2002, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 45 (FIN 45), “Guarantor’s Accounting and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others, an interpretation of FASB Statements No. 5, 57, and 107 and Rescission of FASB Interpretation No. 34.” FIN 45

 

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clarifies the requirements of FASB Statement No. 5, “Accounting for Contingencies,” relating to the guarantor’s accounting for, and disclosure of the issuance of certain types of guarantees. The disclosure provisions of the Interpretation are effective for financial statements of interim or annual reports that end after December 15, 2002. The provisions for initial recognition and measurement are effective on a prospective basis for guarantees that are issued or modified after December 31, 2002, irrespective of the guarantor’s year-end. Implementation of this standard during the three months ended March 31, 2003 had no effect on our statement of financial position or results of operations.

 

In December 2002, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 148, (SFAS 148), “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosure”, amending FASB Statement No. 123 (SFAS 123), “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.” SFAS 148 provides alternative methods of transition for a voluntary change to the fair value method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation as originally provided by SFAS No. 123. Additionally, SFAS 148 amends the disclosure requirements of SFAS 123 to require prominent disclosure in both the annual and interim financial statements about the method of accounting for stock-based compensation and the effect of the method used on reported results. The transitional requirements of SFAS 148 are effective for all financial statements for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2002. We adopted the disclosure portion of this statement for the current fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2003. The application of the disclosure portion of this standard will have no impact on our consolidated financial position or results of operations. The FASB recently indicated that they will require stock-based employee compensation to be recorded as a charge to earnings beginning in 2004. We will continue to monitor their progress on the issuances of this standard as well as evaluate our position with respect to current guidelines.

 

In January 2003, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 46, (FIN 46) “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities.” The objective of Interpretation No. 46 is to improve financial reporting by companies involved with variable interest entities. The Interpretation requires variable interest entities to be consolidated by a company if that company is subject to a majority of the risk of loss from the variable interest entity’s activities or is entitled to receive a majority of the entity’s residual returns or both. We do not currently have any variable interest entities and, therefore, the adoption of FIN 46 will not affect our financial statements.

 

Related Party Transactions

 

Fees For Services

 

We pay sales commissions to a firm, which is owned and controlled by an Affiliate, who is also a director and a principal stockholder. The firm earns these sales commissions based on the amount of our software sales the firm generates. Commissions earned by the firm amounted to $102,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2003, $310,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2002, $279,000 for the seven months ended March 31, 2003 and $315,000 for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. We owed the firm $498,000 as of March 31, 2003 and $385,000 as of August 31, 2002.

 

During previous fiscal years, we received legal services from two law firms of which two members of our Board of Directors are partners. We incurred fees from one of those firms of $279,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and $528,000 for the seven months ended March 31, 2003. We incurred fees from both firms of $170,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2002 and $318,000 for the seven months ended March 31, 2002. We owed fees of $353,000 as of March 31, 2003 and $200,000 as of August 31, 2002 to one of the firms.

 

Notes Receivable

 

In October 2002, we loaned a senior executive $300,000 under a promissory note for the purpose of purchasing a new residence. Our Compensation Committee approved the terms and provisions of the loan in April of 2002. The promissory note bears interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum. Security for the repayment of the

 

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promissory note is a mortgage on the executive’s principal residence. The maturity date of the note is November 1, 2005. The loan shall be forgiven by us 50% in May 2003 and 25% in each of October 2004 and October 2005 so long as the executive remains employed with Acclaim. If the executive voluntarily leaves the employment of Acclaim or is terminated for cause, at any time prior to the maturity date of the note, the executive must repay a pro-rata portion of the unpaid principal balance of the loan plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon. We are recording compensation expense for the unpaid principal balance of the loan over the periods that each portion will be forgiven. Accordingly, during the three and seven months ended March 31, 2003, we expensed $133,000 of the unpaid principal balance. As of March 31, 2003, the unpaid principal balance and related accrued interest under the loan was $167,000, which was included in other receivables.

 

In February 2002, relating to an officer’s employment agreement, we loaned one of our executive officers $300,000 under a promissory note for the purpose of purchasing a new residence. The promissory note bore interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum, which was due by December 31st of each year the promissory note remained outstanding. In January 2003, in connection with terminating the officer’s employment and in accordance with the officer’s employment agreement, we forgave and expensed as compensation the unpaid principal balance and related accrued interest of $302,000. As of August 31, 2002, the unpaid principal balance, included in other assets, was $300,000, and the related accrued interest, included in other receivables, was $8,000

 

In October 2001, we issued a total of 1,125,000 shares of our common stock to the Affiliates when they exercised their warrants with an exercise price of $3.00 per share. For the shares we issued, we received cash of $23,000 for their par value and two promissory notes totaling $3,352,000 for the unpaid portion of the exercise price of the warrants. The principal amount and accrued interest are due and payable on the earlier of (i) August 31, 2003 and (ii) to the extent of the proceeds of any warrant share sale, the third business day following the date upon which the respective executive sells any or all of the warrant shares. The terms and provisions of the notes will not be materially modified or amended, nor will the term be extended or renewed. The notes provide us full recourse against the officers’ assets. The notes bear interest at our primary lender’s prime rate plus 1.50% per annum. Other receivables includes accrued interest receivable on the notes of $324,000 as of March 31, 2003 and $202,000 as of August 31, 2002. The notes receivable have been classified as a contra-equity balance in additional paid-in capital. The Affiliates have each agreed to prepay $2.0 million of their outstanding loans due to us.

 

In July 2001, we issued a total of 1,500,000 shares of our common stock to the Affiliates when they exercised their warrants with an exercise price of $2.42 per share. For the shares issued, we received cash of $30,000 for their par value and two promissory notes totaling $3,595,000 for the unpaid portion of the exercise price of the warrants. The principal amount and accrued interest are due and payable on the earlier of (i) August 31, 2003 and (ii) to the extent of the proceeds of any warrant share sale, the third business day following the date upon which the respective executive sells any or all of the warrant shares. The terms and provisions of the notes will not be materially modified or amended, nor will the term be extended or renewed. The notes provide us full recourse against the officers’ assets. The notes bear interest at our primary lender’s prime rate plus 1.50% per annum. Other receivables includes accrued interest receivable on the notes of $426,000 as of March 31, 2003 and $294,000 as of August 31, 2002. The notes receivable have been classified as a contra-equity balance in additional paid-in capital.

 

In August 1998, relating to an officer’s employment agreement, we loaned one of our officers $500,000 under a promissory note. We reduced the note balance by $50,000 in August 1999, relating to the officer’s employment agreement, and by $200,000 in January 2000 relating to the employee’s termination. The note bears no interest and must be repaid on the earlier to occur of the sale or transfer of the former officer’s personal residence or August 11, 2003. The balance outstanding under the loan was $250,000 as of March 31, 2003 and August 31, 2002 and was included in other receivables.

 

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annum. The balance outstanding under the loan, included in other receivables, was $302,000 as of March 31, 2003 (including accrued interest of $102,000) and $262,000 as of August 31, 2002 (including accrued interest of $62,000) and was repaid in April 2003.

 

Warrant Grants and Other Equity Transactions

 

In October 2001, we issued to the Affiliates warrants to purchase a total of 1,250,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $2.88 per share, the fair market value of our common stock on the grant date. We issued the warrants to the Affiliates in consideration for their services and personal pledge of 1,250,000 shares of our common stock to our primary lender, as additional security for our supplemental discretionary loans.

 

In March 2001, relating to a loan participation between our primary lender and junior participants, we issued investors in the junior participation five-year warrants to purchase an aggregate of 2,375,000 shares of our common stock exercisable at a price of $1.25 per share, which included a total of 1,375,000 warrants we issued to some of our executive officers and to one of the directors of our Board. For information regarding the junior participation, please see Note 12 (Debt) of the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2002, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fair value of the warrants of $1,751,000, based on the Black-Scholes option pricing model, was recorded as a deferred financing cost. We are amortizing the balance as a non-cash financing expense evenly over two and one-half years through August 31, 2003, the date on which the North American credit agreement terminates.

 

 

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FACTORS AFFECTING FUTURE PERFORMANCE

 

Our future operating results depend upon many factors and are subject to various risks and uncertainties. The known material risks and uncertainties which may cause our operating results to vary from anticipated results or which may negatively affect our operating results and profitability are as follows:

 

Our Ability to Meet Cash Requirements and Maintain Necessary Liquidity Rests in Part on the Cooperation of our Primary Lender and Vendors, and Our Ability to Achieve Our Projected Revenue Levels and Reduced Operating Expenses

 

Our short-term liquidity has been supplemented with borrowings under our North American and International credit facilities with GMAC Commercial Credit LLC, our primary lender. To enhance our short-term liquidity, during the seven months ended March 31, 2003, we implemented targeted expense reductions through a business restructuring. In connection with the restructuring, we reduced our fixed and variable expenses, closed our Salt Lake City, Utah software development studio, redeployed various company assets, eliminated certain marginal software titles under development, reduced our staff and staff related expenses and lowered our overall marketing expenditures. Additionally, on March 31, 2003, our primary lender advanced to us a supplemental discretionary loan of up to $11,000,000 through May 31, 2003, and $5,000,000 through September 29, 2003. In May 2003, two of our executive officers, referred to as the Affiliates, each committed to our Board of Directors to prepay a portion of their outstanding loans due to us in the amount of $2,000,000 each. Based on our cash resources, including the $11,000,000 supplemental discretionary loan provided by our primary lender and assuming our primary lender consents, based upon our existing collateral, to provide us supplemental financing during the second half of fiscal 2004, although we can provide no assurance to our stockholders that we will be able to receive such consent, and the $4,000,000 cash commitment from the Affiliates, and assuming we achieve our sales forecast by successfully meeting our product release schedule as provided in our business operating plan, and giving effect to the continued realization of savings from our implemented expense reductions, and provided we continue to enjoy the support of our primary lender and vendors, we expect to have sufficient cash resources to meet our projected cash and operating requirements through the next twelve months. The Company continues to pursue financing and investing arrangements with outside investors. In order to meet our debt service obligations, at various times we may depend on obtaining dividends, advances and transfers of funds from our subsidiaries. State and foreign laws regulate the payment of dividends by these subsidiaries, which is also subject to the terms of our North American credit agreement. A significant portion of our assets, operations, trade payables and indebtedness is located among our foreign subsidiaries. The creditors of the subsidiaries would generally recover from these assets on the obligations owed to them by the subsidiaries before any recovery by our creditors and before any assets are distributed to our stockholders.

 

Our long-term liquidity will significantly depend on our ability to (1) timely develop and market new software products that achieve widespread market acceptance for use with the current hardware platforms dominating the market and (2) realize long-term benefits from our implemented expense reductions, as well as (3) continue to enjoy the support of our primary lender and vendors. If we do not substantially achieve the overall projected revenue levels nor realize any additional benefits from the expense reductions we

have implemented, as reflected in our business operating plan, nor are able to obtain supplemental discretionary financing from our primary lender to fund operations, we will either need to make further significant expense reductions, including, without limitation, the sale of certain assets or the consolidation or closing of certain operations, staff reductions, and/or the delay, cancellation or reduction of certain product development and marketing programs. Additionally, some of these measures may require third party consents or approvals from our primary lender and there can be no assurance that such consents or approvals can be obtained. See “If Cash Flows from Operations Are Not Sufficient To Meet Our Operational Needs, We May Be Forced To Sell Assets, Refinance Debt, or Further Downsize Our Operations”.

 

In the event that we do not achieve the product release schedule, sales assumptions or continue to derive expense savings from our implemented expense reductions, or our primary lender does not consent, based upon our existing collateral, to provide us supplemental financing during the second half of fiscal 2004,

 

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we cannot assure investors that our future operating cash flows will be sufficient to meet our operating requirements, our debt service requirements or repay our indebtedness at maturity, including without limitation, repayment of the supplemental discretionary loan. In any such event, our operations and liquidity will be materially and adversely affected and we could be forced to cease operations.

 

Failing to substantially achieve our projected revenue levels for fiscal 2004 will also result in a default under our credit agreement with our primary lender. If a default were to occur under our credit agreement and it is not timely cured by us or waived by our lender, or if this were to happen and our debt could not be refinanced or restructured, our lender could pursue its remedies, including: (1) penalty rates of interest; (2) demand for immediate repayment of the debt; and/or (3) the foreclosure on any of our assets securing the debt. If this were to happen and we were liquidated or reorganized, after payment to our creditors, there would likely be insufficient assets remaining for any distribution to our stockholders.

 

As of December 1, 2002 and March 31, 2003, we received waivers from GMAC with respect to those financial covenants contained in the credit agreement for which we were not in compliance. If waivers from GMAC are necessary in the future, we cannot be assured that we will be able to obtain waivers of any future covenant violations, as we have in the past. During fiscal 2003 we implemented significant expense reductions. We cannot however assure our stockholders and investors that we will achieve the overall projected sales levels based on our planned product release schedule, achieve profitability or achieve the cash flows necessary to avoid further expense reductions in fiscal 2004. See “Factors Affecting Future Performance: If Cash Flows from Operations Are Not Sufficient to Meet Our Operational Needs, We May Be Forced To Sell Assets, Refinance Debt, or Further Downsize Our Operations”, and “Industry Trends, Platform Transitions and Technological Change May Adversely Affect Our Revenue and Profitability.

 

Going Concern Consideration

 

At August 31, 2002, our independent auditors’ report, as prepared by KPMG LLP and dated October 17, 2002, which appears in our 2002 Form 10-K, includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the substantial doubt as to the ability of Acclaim to continue as a going concern due to a working capital deficit as of August 31, 2002 and the recurring use of cash in operating activities. For the seven months ended March 31, 2003 we had a net loss of $67,805 and used $20,694 of cash in operating activities. As of March 31, 2003 we have a stockholders’ deficit of $46,158, a working capital deficit of $63,496 and $4,495 of cash and cash equivalents. These factors have continued to raise substantial doubt as to the ability of Acclaim to continue as a going concern. Based on management’s plans described below, the accompanying financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.

 

If Cash Flows from Operations Are Not Sufficient to Meet Our Operational Needs, We May Be Forced To Sell Assets, Refinance Debt, or Further Downsize Our Operations

 

During fiscal 2003, we implemented certain expense reduction initiatives that have begun to reduce our operating expenses during fiscal 2003 and which reductions we plan to continue in fiscal 2004. Our operating plan for fiscal 2004 focuses on (1) maintaining our lowered fixed and variable expenses worldwide, (2) continuing to limit and eliminate non-essential marketing expenses and (4) maintaining our reduced employee related expenses. Although we believe the actions we are taking should return our operations to profitability, we cannot assure our stockholders and investors that we will achieve the sales necessary to achieve sufficient liquidity and avoid further expense reduction actions such as selling assets or consolidating operations, further reducing staff, refinancing debt and/or otherwise further restructuring our operations. See “Industry Trends, Platform Transitions and Technological Change May Adversely Affect Our Revenue and Profitability” below and “Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources.”

 

A Violation of our Financing Agreements Could Result in GMAC Declaring a Default and Seeking Remedies

 

If we violate the financial or other covenants contained in our credit agreement with GMAC, we will be in default under the credit agreement. If a default occurs under the credit agreement and is not timely cured by us or waived by GMAC, GMAC could seek remedies against us, including: (1) penalty rates of interest; (2) immediate repayment of the debt; and/or (3) the foreclosure on any assets securing the debt.

 

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Pursuant to the terms of the credit agreement, we are required to maintain specified levels of working capital and tangible net worth, among other covenants. As of December 1, 2002 and March 31, 2003, we received waivers from GMAC with respect to those financial covenants contained in the credit agreement for which we were not in compliance. If waivers from GMAC are necessary in the future, we cannot be assured that we will be able to obtain waivers of any future covenant violations, as we have in the past. If Acclaim is liquidated or reorganized, after payment to the creditors, there are likely to be insufficient assets remaining for any distribution to our stockholders.

 

Revenue and Liquidity are Dependent on Timely Introduction of New Titles

 

The timely shipment of a new title depends on various factors, including the development process, debugging, approval by hardware licensors and approval by third-party licensors. It is likely that some of our titles will not be released in accordance with our operating plans. Because net revenue associated with the initial shipments of a new product generally constitute a high percentage of the total net revenue associated with the life of a product, a significant delay in the introduction of one or more new titles would negatively affect or limit sales (as was the case in the first and third quarters of fiscal 2002) and would have a negative impact on our financial condition, liquidity and results of operations. We cannot assure stockholders that our new titles will be released in a timely fashion in accordance with our business plan.

 

The average life cycle of a new title generally ranges from three months to upwards of twelve to eighteen months, with the majority of sales occurring in the first thirty to one hundred twenty days after release. Factors such as competition for access to retail shelf space, consumer preferences and seasonality could result in the shortening of the life cycle for older titles and increase the importance of our ability to release new titles on a timely basis. Therefore, we are constantly required to introduce new titles in order to generate revenue and/or to replace declining revenue from older titles. In the past, we experienced delays in the introduction of new titles, which have had a negative impact on our results of operations. The complexity of next-generation systems has resulted in higher development expenditures, longer development cycles and the need to carefully monitor and plan the product development process. If we do not introduce titles in accordance with our operating plans for a period, our results of operations, liquidity and profitability in that period could be negatively affected.

 

We Depend On A Relatively Small Number of Franchises For A Significant Portion Of Our Revenue And Profits

 

A significant portion of our revenue is derived from products based on a relatively small number of popular franchises each year. In addition, many of these products have substantial production or acquisition costs and marketing budgets. In fiscal 2003, 58% of our gross revenue was derived from five franchises. In fiscal 2002, five franchises accounted for 61% of our gross revenue. In fiscal 2001, four franchises accounted for 53% of our gross revenue. We expect that a limited number of popular brands will continue to produce a disproportionately large amount of our revenue. Due to this dependence on a limited number of brands, the failure of one or more products based on these brands to achieve anticipated results may significantly harm our business and financial results. For example, during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002, our failure to achieve our projected revenue from two titles, Turok: Evolution and Aggressive Inline, due to lower than anticipated consumer acceptance of the products, resulted in a net loss for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2002 and continued to contribute to losses during fiscal 2003.

 

Industry Trends, Platform Transitions and Technological Change May Adversely Affect Our Revenue and Profitability

 

The life cycle of existing game systems and the market acceptance and popularity of new game systems significantly affects the success of our products. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to predict accurately the life cycle or popularity of each system. If we (1) do not develop software for games consoles that achieve significant market acceptance; (2) discontinue development of software for a system that has a longer-than-expected life cycle;

 

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(3) develop software for a system that does not achieve significant popularity; or (4) continue development of software for a system that has a shorter-than-expected life cycle, our revenue and profitability may be negatively affected and we could experience losses from operations.

 

When new platforms are announced or introduced into the market, consumers typically reduce their purchases of software products for the current platforms, in anticipation of new platforms becoming available. During these periods, sales of our software products can be expected to slow down or even decline until the new platforms have been introduced and have achieved wide consumer acceptance. Each of the three current principal hardware producers launched a new platform in recent years. Sony made the first shipments of its PlayStation 2 console system in North America and Europe in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2000. Microsoft made the first shipments of its Xbox console system in North America in November 2001 and in Europe and Japan in the first quarter of calendar 2002. Nintendo made the first shipments of its Nintendo GameCube console system in North America in November 2001 and in Europe in May 2002. Additionally, in June 2001, Nintendo launched its Game Boy Advance hand held device. On occasion the video and computer games industry is affected, in both favorable and unfavorable ways, by a competitor’s entry into, or exit from, the hardware or software sectors of the industry. For example, in early 2001, Sega exited the hardware business, ceased distribution and sales of its Dreamcast console and re-deployed its resources to develop software for multiple consoles. More recently, the entry of Microsoft (which traditionally had only produced software and hardware for personal computers) into the video game console market with the Xbox has benefited us and other video game publishers by expanding the total size of the market for video games. The effects of this type of entry or exit can be significant and difficult to anticipate.

 

We believe the next hardware transition cycle will occur sometime during 2005 and 2006. Delays in the launch, shortages, technical problems or lack of consumer acceptance of these platforms could adversely affect our sales of products for these platforms.

 

Our Future Success Depends On Our Ability To Release Popular Products

 

The life of any one software product is relatively short, in many cases less than one year. It is therefore important for us to be able to continue to develop new products that are favorably received by consumers. If we are unable to do this, our business and financial results may be negatively affected. We focus our development and publishing activities principally on products that are, or have the potential to become, franchise brand properties. Many of these products are based on intellectual property and other character or story rights acquired or licensed from third parties. These license and distribution agreements are limited in scope and time, and we may not be able to renew key licenses when they expire or to include new products in existing licenses. The loss of a significant number of our intellectual property licenses or of our relationships with licensors would have a material adverse effect on our ability to develop new products and therefore on our business and financial results.

 

Profitability is Affected by Research and Development Expenditure Fluctuations Due to Platform Transitions and Development for Multiple Platforms

 

Our cash outlays for product development for the seven months in fiscal 2003 (a portion of which were expensed and the remainder of which were capitalized), were higher than the same period last year and our product development cash outlays may increase in the future as a result of releasing more games across multiple platforms, delayed attainment of technological feasibility and the complexity of developing games for the 128-bit game consoles, among other reasons. We anticipate that our profitability will continue to be impacted by the levels of research and development expenditures relative to revenue, and by fluctuations relating to the timing of development in anticipation of future platforms.

 

During fiscal 2003, we focused our development efforts and costs on the development of tools and engines necessary for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. Our fiscal 2003 release schedule was developed around PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox and Game Boy Advance. The release schedule for fiscal 2004 continues to support these same platforms.

 

 

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If Price Concessions and Returns Exceed Allowances, We May Incur Losses

 

In the past, particularly during platform transitions, we have had to increase our price concessions granted to our retail customers. Coupled with more competitive pricing, if our allowances for price concessions and returns are exceeded, our financial condition and results of operations will be negatively impacted, as has occurred in the past. We grant price concessions to our key customers (major retailers which control market access to the consumer) when we deem those concessions are necessary to maintain our relationships with those retailers and continued access to their retail channel customers. If the consumers’ demand for a specific title falls below expectations or significantly declines below previous rates of retail sell-through, then a price concession or credit may be requested by our customers to spur further sales.

 

Management makes significant estimates and assumptions regarding allowances for estimated price concessions and product returns in preparing the financial statements. Management establishes allowances at the time of product shipment, taking into account the potential for price concessions and product returns based primarily on: market acceptance of products in retail and distributor inventories; level of retail inventories and retail sell-through rates; seasonality; and historical price concession and product return rates. Management monitors and adjusts these allowances quarterly to take into account actual developments and results in the marketplace. We believe that our allowances for price concessions and returns are adequate, but we cannot guarantee the adequacy of our current or future allowances.

 

If We are Unable to Obtain or Renew Licenses from Hardware Developers, We Will Not be Able to Release Software for Popular Systems

 

 

We are substantially dependent on each hardware developer (1) as the sole licensor of the specifications needed to develop software for its game system; (2) as the sole manufacturer (Nintendo and Sony software) of the software developed by us for its game systems; (3) to protect the intellectual property rights to their game consoles and technology; and (4) to discourage unauthorized persons from producing software for its game systems.

 

Substantially all of our revenue has historically been derived from sales of software for game systems. If we cannot obtain licenses to develop software from developers of popular interactive entertainment game platforms or if any of our existing license agreements are terminated, we will not be able to release software for those systems, which would have a negative impact on our results of operations and profitability. Although we cannot assure stockholders that when the term of existing license agreements end we will be able to obtain extensions or that we will be successful in negotiating definitive license agreements with developers of new systems, to date we have always been able to obtain extensions or new agreements with the hardware companies.

 

Our revenue growth may also be dependent on constraints the hardware companies impose. If new license agreements contain product quantity limitations, our revenue, cash flows and profitability may be negatively impacted.

 

In addition, when we develop software titles for systems offered by Sony and Nintendo, the products are manufactured exclusively by that hardware manufacturer. Since each of the manufacturers is also a publisher of games for its own hardware system, a manufacturer may give priority to its own products or those of our competitors in the event of insufficient manufacturing capacity. We could be materially harmed by unanticipated delays in the manufacturing and delivery of products.

 

Inability to Procure Commercially Valuable Intellectual Property Licenses May Prevent Product Releases or Result in Reduced Product Sales

 

Our titles often embody trademarks, trade names, logos, or copyrights licensed by third parties, such as the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and their respective players’ associations, and/or individual athletes or celebrities.

 

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The loss of one or more of these licenses would prevent us from releasing a title and limit our economic success. We cannot assure stockholders that our licenses will be extended on reasonable terms or at all, or that we will be successful in acquiring or renewing licenses to property rights with significant commercial value.

 

License agreements relating to these rights generally extend for a term of two to three years and are terminable upon the occurrence of a number of factors, including the material breach of the agreement by either party, failure to pay amounts due to the licensor in a timely manner, or a bankruptcy or insolvency by either party.

 

We Depend On Skilled Personnel

 

Our success depends to a significant extent on our ability to identify, hire and retain skilled personnel. The software industry is characterized by a high level of employee mobility and aggressive recruiting among competitors for personnel with technical, marketing, sales, product development and management skills. We may not be able to attract and retain skilled personnel or may incur significant costs in order to do so. If we are unable to attract additional qualified employees or retain the services of key personnel, our business and financial results could be negatively impacted.

 

Competition for Market Acceptance and Retail Shelf Space, Pricing Competition, and Competition With the Hardware Manufacturers Affects Our Revenue and Profitability

 

The interactive entertainment software industry is intensely competitive and new interactive entertainment software products and platforms are regularly introduced. Our competitors vary in size from small companies to very large corporations with significantly greater financial, marketing and product development resources than we have. Due to these greater resources, certain of our competitors can undertake more extensive marketing campaigns, adopt more aggressive pricing policies, pay higher fees to licensors for desirable motion picture, television, sports and character properties and pay more to third party software developers than we can. Only a small percentage of titles introduced in the market achieve any degree of sustained market acceptance. If our titles are not successful, our operations and profitability will be negatively impacted.

 

Competition in the video and computer games industry is based primarily upon:

 

    availability of significant financial resources;

 

    the quality of titles;

 

    reviews received for a title from independent reviewers who publish reviews in magazines, websites, newspapers and other industry publications;

 

    publisher’s access to retail shelf space;

 

    the success of the game console for which the title is written;

 

    the price of each title;

 

    the number of titles then available for the system for which each title is published; and

 

We compete primarily with other publishers of personal computer and video game console interactive entertainment software. Significant third party software competitors currently include, among others: Activision; Capcom; Eidos; Electronic Arts; Atari;

Interplay Entertainment; Konami; Namco; Midway Games; Sega; Take-Two; THQ; 3DO and Vivendi Universal Publishing. In addition, integrated video game console hardware and software companies such as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft compete directly with us in the development of software titles for their respective systems. The hardware developers have a price, marketing and distribution advantage with respect to software marketed by them.

 

 

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As each game system cycle matures, significant price competition and reduced profit margins result, as we experienced in fiscal 2000. In addition, competition from new technologies may reduce demand in markets in which we have traditionally competed. As a result of prolonged price competition and reduced demand as a result of competing technologies, our operations and liquidity have in the past been, and in the future may be, negatively impacted.

 

Revenue Varies Due to the Seasonal Nature of Video and Computer Game Software Purchases

 

The video and computer games industry is highly seasonal. Typically, net revenue is highest in our third fiscal quarter, declines in our fourth fiscal quarter, is lower in the second fiscal quarter and increases again in our first fiscal quarter. The seasonal pattern is due primarily to the increased demand for software during the year-end holiday selling season and the reduced demand for software during the summer months. Our earnings vary significantly and are materially affected by releases of popular products and, accordingly, may not necessarily reflect the seasonal patterns of the industry as a whole. We expect that operating results will continue to fluctuate significantly in the future. See “Factors Affecting Future Performance: Fluctuations in Quarterly Operating Results Lead to Unpredictability of Revenue and Income” below.

 

Fluctuations in Quarterly Operating Results Lead to Unpredictability of Revenue and Earnings

 

The timing of the release of new titles can cause material quarterly revenue and earnings fluctuations. A significant portion of revenue in any quarter is often derived from sales of new titles introduced in that quarter or shipped in the immediately preceding quarter. If we are unable to begin volume shipments of a significant new title during the scheduled quarter, as has been the case in the past (including the third and fourth quarters of fiscal 2001, the first and third quarters of fiscal 2002 and the first fiscal quarter of 2003), our revenue and earnings will be negatively affected in that period. In addition, because a majority of the unit sales for a title typically occur in the first thirty to one hundred twenty days following its introduction, revenue and earnings may increase significantly in a period in which a major title is introduced and may decline in the following period or in a period in which there are no major title introductions.

 

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002, due to domestic retail sales for Turok: Evolution and Aggressive Inline significantly falling below our projections and anticipated rates of product sell-through, our revenue and earnings for that period were substantially below expectations.

 

Quarterly operating results also may be materially impacted by factors, including the level of market acceptance or demand for titles and the level of development and/or promotion expenses for a title. Consequently, if net revenue in a period is below expectations, our operating results and financial position in that period are likely to be negatively affected, as has occurred in the past.

 

Our Software May Be Subject To Governmental Restrictions Or Rating Systems

 

Legislation is periodically introduced at the local, state and federal levels in the United States and in foreign countries to establish a system for providing consumers with information about graphic violence and sexually explicit material contained in interactive entertainment software products. In addition, many foreign countries have laws that permit governmental entities to censor the content and advertising of interactive entertainment software. We believe that mandatory government-run rating systems eventually may be adopted in many countries that are significant markets or potential markets for our products. We may be required to modify our products or alter our marketing strategies to comply with new regulations, which could delay the release of our products in those countries. In the first quarter of fiscal 2003, we released BMX XXX, a software title which is based on BMX bicycle riding, but which contained adult content, partial nudity and adult humor.

 

 

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Due to the uncertainties regarding such rating systems, confusion in the marketplace may occur, and we are unable to predict what effect, if any, such rating systems would have on our business. In addition to such regulations, certain retailers have declined to stock BMX XXX, because they believed that the content of the packaging artwork or the products would be offensive to the retailer’s customer base. While to date these actions have not caused material harm to our business, we cannot assure you that the actions taken by certain retailers and distributors in the future, would not cause material harm to our business.

 

Our Stock Price is Volatile and Stockholders May Not be Able to Recoup Their Investment

 

There is a history of significant volatility in the market prices of securities of companies engaged in the software industry, including Acclaim. Movements in the market price of our common stock from time to time have negatively affected stockholders’ ability to recoup their investment in the stock. The price of our common stock is likely to continue to be highly volatile, and

 

stockholders may not be able to recoup their investment. If our future revenue, cash used in or provided by from operations (liquidity), profitability or product releases do not meet expectations, the price of our common stock may be negatively affected.

 

If Our Securities Were Delisted From the Nasdaq SmallCap Market, It May Negatively Impact the Liquidity of Our Common Stock

 

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000, our securities were delisted from quotation on the Nasdaq National Market. Our common stock is currently trading on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market. No assurance can be given as to our ongoing ability to meet the Nasdaq SmallCap Market maintenance requirements. As of the date of this filing, we currently do not meet the minimum bid nor market capitalization requirements for continued listing on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market.

 

On January 24, 2003 we received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. stating that, because our common stock had not closed at or above the minimum $1.00 per share bid price requirement for 30 consecutive trading days, we had not met the minimum bid price requirements for continued listing as set forth in Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(4), and we have until July 23, 2003 in which to regain compliance. If at any time prior to July 23, 2003 the closing bid price of our common stock is $1.00 or more for a minimum of 10 consecutive trading days, then we will again be in compliance with such rule. The letter also states that if compliance cannot be demonstrated by July 23, 2003, Nasdaq will determine whether we meet the initial listing standards for The Nasdaq SmallCap Market, and if we do meet that criteria we will be granted an additional 180 day grace period in which to demonstrate compliance. If, after July 23, 2003 compliance cannot be demonstrated and we do not meet the initial listing standards then our securities would be subject to delisting. At that time, we may appeal such determination; however, there can be no assurances that such an appeal would be successful.

 

If our common stock was to be delisted from trading on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market, trading, if any, in our common stock may continue to be conducted on the OTC Bulletin Board or in the non-Nasdaq over-the-counter market. Delisting of the common stock would result in, among other things, limited release of the market price of the common stock and limited company news coverage and could restrict investors’ interest in the common stock as well as materially adversely affect the trading market and prices for the common stock and our ability to issue additional securities or to secure additional financing.

 

Infringement Could Lead to Costly Litigation and/or the Need to Enter into License Agreements, Which May Result in Increased Operating Expenses

 

Existing or future infringement claims by or against us may result in costly litigation or require us to license the proprietary rights of third parties, which could have a negative impact on our results of operations, liquidity and profitability.

 

 

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We believe that our proprietary rights do not infringe upon the proprietary rights of others. As the number of titles in the industry increases, we believe that claims and lawsuits with respect to software infringement will also increase. From time to time, third parties have asserted that some of our titles infringed their proprietary rights. We have also asserted that third parties have likewise infringed our proprietary rights. These infringement claims have sometimes resulted in litigation by and against us. To date, none of these claims has negatively impacted our ability to develop, publish or distribute our software. We cannot guarantee that future infringement claims will not occur or that they will not negatively impact our ability to develop, publish or distribute our software.

 

Factors Specific to International Sales May Result in Reduced Revenue and/or Increased Costs

 

International sales have historically represented material portions of our revenue and are expected to continue to account for a significant portion of our revenue in future periods. Sales in foreign countries may involve expenses incurred to customize titles to comply with local laws. In addition, titles that are successful in the domestic market may not be successful in foreign markets due to different consumer preferences. We continue to evaluate our international product development and release schedule to maximize the delivery of products that appeal specifically to that marketplace. International sales are also subject to fluctuating exchange rates.

 

Charter and Anti-Takeover Provisions Could Negatively Affect Rights of Holders of Common Stock

 

Our Board of Directors has the authority to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine their characteristics without stockholder approval. In this regard, in June 2000, the board of directors approved a stockholder rights plan. If the Series B junior participating preferred stock is issued it would be more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of our voting stock.

 

In addition to the Series B preferred stock, the Board of Directors may issue additional preferred stock and, if this is done, the rights of common stockholders may be negatively impacted by the rights of those preferred stockholders.

 

We are also subject to anti-takeover provisions of Delaware corporate law, which may impede a tender offer, change in control or takeover attempt that is opposed by the Board. In addition, employment arrangements with some members of management provide for severance payments upon termination of their employment if there is a change in control.

 

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As of May 24, 2003, we had 96,620,858 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, of which 13,074,111 are “restricted” securities within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Generally, under Rule 144, a person who has held restricted shares for one year may sell such shares, subject to certain volume limitations and other restrictions, without registration under the Securities Act.

 

As of May 24, 2003, 57,277,105 shares of common stock are covered by effective registration statements under the Securities Act for resale on a delayed or continuous basis by certain of our security holders.

 

As of May 24, 2003, a total of 4,351,111 shares of common stock are issuable upon the exercise of warrants to purchase our common stock (not including warrants issued in settlement of litigation).

 

We have also registered on Form S-8 a total of 24,236,000 shares of common stock (issuable upon the exercise of options) under our 1988 Stock Option Plan and our 1998 Stock Incentive Plan, and a total of 2,448,425 shares of common stock under our 1995 Restricted Stock Plan. As of March 31, 2003, options to purchase a total of 14,977,984 shares of common stock were outstanding under the 1988 Stock Option Plan and the 1998 Stock Incentive Plan, of which 11,803,605 were exercisable.

 

In connection with licensing and distribution arrangements, acquisitions of other companies, the repurchase of notes and financing arrangements, we have issued and may continue to issue common stock or securities convertible into common stock. Any such issuance or future issuance of substantial amounts of common stock or convertible securities could adversely affect prevailing market prices for the common stock and could adversely affect our ability to raise capital.

 

Item 3.     Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

 

We have not entered into any financial instruments for trading or hedging purposes.

 

Our results of operations are affected by fluctuations in the value of our subsidiaries’ functional currency as compared to the currencies of our foreign denominated sales and purchases. Our subsidiaries’ results of operations, as reported in U.S. dollars, may be significantly affected by fluctuations in the value of the local currencies in which they transact business. We record the effect of foreign currency transactions when we translate the foreign subsidiaries’ financial statements into U.S. dollars and when foreign subsidiaries record those transactions in their local books of record. The effect on our results of operations of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates depends on the various foreign currency exchange rates and the magnitude of the foreign currency transactions.

 

We had a cumulative foreign currency translation loss of $1.8 million as of March 31, 2003 and August 31, 2002, which is included in accumulated other comprehensive loss in our statements of stockholders’ equity. We recorded net foreign currency transaction gains of $0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and $0.1 million for the seven months ended March 31, 2003. We recorded net foreign currency transaction losses of $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and $0.1 million for the seven months ended March 31, 2002.

 

In addition to the direct effects of changes in exchange rates, which are a changed dollar value of the resulting sales and related expenses, changes in exchange rates also affect the volume of sales or the foreign currency sales price as competitors’ products become more or less attractive.

 

Item 4.     Controls and Procedures.

 

Within 90 days of the filing of this report, under the supervision and with the participation of the Company’s management, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, have evaluated the disclosure controls and procedures of the Company as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13(a)-14(c) and have determined that such controls and procedures are adequate and effective. Since the date of the evaluations, there have been no significant changes in the Company’s internal controls or other factors that could significantly affect these controls.

 

 

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PART II

 

Item 1.     Legal Proceedings.

 

As of May 8, 2003, thirteen class action complaints, containing similar allegations, have been filed against us and certain of our officers and/or directors. Each complaint asserts violations of federal securities laws. The actions are entitled as follows: Purvis, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1270); DMS, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Rodney Cousens and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1322); Nach, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Rodney Cousens and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1363); Baron, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1541); Traube, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1487); Hildal, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1640); Hicks, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Rodney Cousens and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1698); Russo, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1700); Vicino, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1672); Sypes, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1685); Berman, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-1924);Burk, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Gregory Fischbach, Edmond Sanctis, James Scoroposki and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-2030);Brake, et al. v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., Rodney Cousens and Gerard Agoglia filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Central Islip Division (Civil Action No. CV 03-2175).

 

In Purvis, Baron, Traube, Hildal, Russo, Vicino, Sypes, Berman, and Burk, plaintiffs allege that during the purported class period between January 11, 2002 and September 19, 2002 we reported positive earnings statements and gave favorable earnings guidance, but failed to disclose material adverse facts regarding our business, operations and management, thereby causing plaintiffs and other members of the class to purchase our securities at artificially inflated prices. Plaintiffs claim violations under §§ 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 10b-5. In DMS, Nach, Hicks, and Brake, plaintiffs assert that during the class period between January 22, 2002 and September 19, 2002 we committed certain alleged accounting improprieties, thereby causing plaintiffs and other members of the class to purchase our securities at artificially inflated prices. Plaintiffs claim violations under §§ 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and SEC Rule 10b-5. All the complaints seek unspecified damages. The complaints in the Purvis, DMS, Baron, Russo, Vicino, Sypes and Berman actions have been served. In those actions, the parties have agreed to extend defendants’ time to respond to the complaints until after a consolidated amended complaint is served. We intend to defend these actions vigorously.

 

We and other companies in the entertainment industry were sued in an action entitled James, et al. v. Meow Media, et al. filed in April 1999 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Paducah Division, Civil Action No. 5:99 CV96-J.

 

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The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants negligently caused injury to the plaintiffs as a result of, in the case of Acclaim, its distribution of unidentified “violent” video games, which induced a minor to harm his high school classmates, thereby causing damages to plaintiffs, the parents of the deceased individuals. The plaintiffs seek damages in the amount of approximately $110.0 million. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky dismissed this action and the dismissal was then appealed by the plaintiffs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied plaintiffs appeal. The plaintiff filed a petition for a Writ of Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court to challenge the Sixth Circuits decision. The United States Supreme Court denied the petition on January 21, 2003. No further appeals are available to the plaintiffs.

 

We and other companies in the entertainment industry were sued in an action entitled Sanders et al. v. Meow Media, et al., filed in April 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Civil Action No. 01-0728. The complaint purports to be a class action brought on behalf of all persons killed or injured by the shootings which occurred at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. We are a named defendant in the action along with more than ten other publishers of computer and video games. The complaint alleges that the video game defendants negligently caused injury to the plaintiffs as a result of their distribution of unidentified “violent” video games, which induced two minors to kill a teacher related to the plaintiff and to kill or harm their high school classmates, thereby causing damages to plaintiffs. The complaint seeks: compensatory damages in an amount not less than $15,000 for each plaintiff in the class, but up to $20.0 million for some of the members of the class; punitive damages in the amount of $5.0 billion; statutory damages against certain other defendants in the action; and equitable relief to address the marketing and distribution of “violent” video games to children. This case was dismissed on March 4, 2002. Following dismissal, the plaintiffs moved for relief and the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado denied the relief sought by plaintiff. On April 5, 2002, plaintiffs noted an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. On October 3, 2002, the Tenth Circuit took jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ appeal. The plaintiffs subsequently filed a stipulation of dismissal of their appeal with prejudice, and the Tenth Circuit formally dismissed the appeal on December 10, 2002. No further appeals are available to the plaintiffs.

 

We received a demand for indemnification from the defendant Lazer-Tron Corporation in a matter entitled J. Richard Oltmann v. Steve Simon, No. 98 C1759 and Steve Simon v. J. Richard Oltmann, J Richard Oltmann Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Haunted Trails Amusement Parks, and RLT Acquisitions, Inc., d/b/a Lazer-Tron, No. A 98CA 426, consolidated as U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Case No. 99 C 1055. The Lazer-Tron action involves the assertion by plaintiff Simon that defendants Oltmann, Haunted Trails and Lazer-Tron misappropriated plaintiff’s trade secrets. Plaintiff alleges claims for Lanham Act violations, unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, conspiracy, and fraud against all defendants, and seeks damages in unspecified amounts, including treble damages for Lanham Act claims, and an accounting. Pursuant to an asset purchase agreement made as of March 5, 1997, we sold Lazer-Tron to RLT Acquisitions, Inc. Under the asset purchase agreement, we assumed and excluded specific liabilities, and agreed to indemnify RLT for certain losses, as specified in the asset purchase agreement. In an August 1, 2000 letter, counsel for Lazer-Tron in the Lazer-Tron action asserted that our indemnification obligations in the asset purchase agreement applied to the Lazer-Tron action, and demanded that we indemnify Lazer-Tron for any losses which may be incurred in the Lazer-Tron action. In an August 22, 2000 response, we asserted that any losses which may result from the Lazer-Tron action are not assumed liabilities under the asset purchase agreement for which we must indemnify Lazer-Tron. In a November 20, 2000 letter, Lazer-Tron responded to Acclaim’s August 22 letter and reiterated its position that we must indemnify Lazer-Tron with respect to the Lazer-Tron action. No other action with respect to this matter has been taken to date.

 

An action entitled David Mirra v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., CV-03-575 was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on February 5, 2003. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants did not have authorization to utilize Mirra’s name and likeness in connection with a bicycle video game intended for mature audiences. Specifically, Mirra alleges that we engaged in (1) violations of § 1051 et seq. of the Lanham Act; (2) violations of §43(a) of the Lanham Act; (3) breach of the amendment to the license agreement;

 

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(4) unfair competition; (5) tortious interference; (6) injury to business reputation and dilution; (7) deceptive trade practices in violation of General Business Law of New York § 349; (8) false advertising in violation of General Business Law of New York § 350-D; (9) violation of the California Civil Code § 3344; and (10) invasion of privacy - misappropriation of likeness pursuant to California common law; (11) invasion of privacy - false light pursuant to California common law; and (12) and accounting. Mirra claims that he has been harmed by $1.0 million per Counts 1-5 and 7-11, for a total of $10.0 million in actual damages. Mirra is also claiming that our actions were willful and is demanding an additional $20.0 million in punitive damages, plus costs and attorneys’ fees. We denied the factual and legal allegations giving rise to these causes of actions in our answer. Specifically, we have asserted defenses of acquiescence/consent, parole evidence and contract, fair use, waiver/estoppel and others. We have also raised counterclaims for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and non-breach of our License Agreement with Mirra and the Amendment thereto; breach of the License Agreement by Mirra; unfair competition and false designation of origin; and tortious interference with prospective and existing customers and contractual/business relations. Mirra filed a reply to our counterclaims denying any culpability. Neither party has yet to exchange their initial disclosures or to begin formal discovery. We are responding to this litigation vigorously.

 

We are also party to various litigations arising in the ordinary course of our business, the resolution of which, we believe, will not have a material adverse effect on our liquidity or results of operations.

 

Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K.

 

(a) Exhibits:

 

The following exhibits are filed herewith or are incorporated by reference to exhibits previously filed with the SEC. We will furnish copies of the exhibits for a reasonable fee (covering the expense of furnishing copies) upon request:

 

Exhibit No.


  

Description


3.1

  

Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed on April 21, 1989, as amended (Commission File No. 33-28274))

3.2

  

Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed on April 21, 1989, as amended (Commission File No. 33-28274))

3.3

  

Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(d) to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed on May 19, 1995 (Commission File No. 33-59483))

3.4

  

Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 3, 2002)

3.5

  

Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on June 12, 2000)

4.1

  

Specimen form of the Company’s common stock certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 1989, as amended)

4.2

  

Rights Agreement dated as of June 5, 2000, between the Company and American Securities Transfer & Trust, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on June 12, 2000)

4.3

  

Form of Warrant Agreement between the Company and American Securities Transfer & Trust, Inc. as warrant agent, relating to Class D Warrants (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to

 

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Exhibit No.


  

Description


    

the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed on August 23, 1999 (Commission File No. 333-72503))

4.4

  

Form of Warrant Certificate relating to Class D Warrants (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed on August 23, 1999 (Commission File No. 333-72503))

+10.1

  

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (incorporated by reference to the Company’s definitive proxy statement relating to fiscal 1997 filed on August 31, 1998)

+10.2

  

1998 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to the Company’s definitive proxy statement relating to fiscal 1997 filed on August 31, 1998)

+10.3

  

Employment Agreement dated as of September 1, 1994 between the Company and Gregory E. Fischbach; and Amendment No. 1 dated as of December 8, 1996 between the Company and Gregory E. Fischbach (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 1996)

+10.4

  

Employment Agreement dated as of September 1, 1994 between the Company and James Scoroposki; and Amendment No. 1 dated as of December 8, 1996 between the Company and James Scoroposki (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 1996)

+10.5

  

Service Agreement effective January 1, 1998 between Acclaim Entertainment Limited and Rodney Cousens (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 1996)

+10.6

  

Employment Agreement dated as of August 11, 2000 between the Company and Gerard F. Agoglia (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 2000)

+10.7

  

Employment Agreement dated as of October 2, 2000 between the Company and John Ma (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 2001)

+10.8

  

Amendment No. 3, dated August 1, 2000, to the Employment Agreement between the Company and Gregory E. Fischbach, dated as of September 1, 1994 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 2, 2000)

+10.9

  

Amendment No. 3, dated August 1, 2000, to the Employment Agreement between the Company and James Scoroposki, dated as of September 1, 1994 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 2, 2000)

10.10

  

Employment Agreement, dated as of December 20, 2001 between the Company and Edmond Sanctis (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.26 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 2, 2001)

10.11

  

Revolving Credit and Security Agreement dated as of January 1, 1993 between the Company, Acclaim Distribution Inc., LJN Toys, Ltd., Acclaim Entertainment Canada, Ltd. and Arena Entertainment Inc., as borrowers, and GMAC Commercial Credit LLC as successor by merger to BNY Financial Corporation (“GMAC”), as lender, as amended and restated on February 28, 1995 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended February 28, 1995), as further amended and modified by (i) the Amendment and Waiver dated November 8, 1996, (ii) the Amendment dated November 15, 1998, (iii) the Blocked Account Agreement dated November 14, 1996, (iv) Letter Agreement dated December 13, 1986, and (v) Letter Agreement dated February 24, 1997 (each incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Report on Form 8-K filed on March 14, 1997)

 

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Exhibit No.


  

Description


10.12

  

Restated and Amended Factoring Agreement dated as of February 28, 1995 between the Company and GMAC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended February 28, 1995), as further amended and modified by the Amendment to Factoring Agreements dated February 24, 1997 between the Company and GMAC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Report on Form 8-K filed on March 14, 1997)

10.13

  

Amendment to Revolving Credit and Security Agreement and Restated and Amended Factoring Agreement, dated March 14, 2002 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 3, 2002)

10.14

  

Form of Participation Agreement between GMAC and certain junior participants (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended February 28, 1998)

10.15

  

Note and Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated March 30, 2001 between the Company and Triton Capital Management, Ltd. (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on April 16, 2001 (Commission File No. 333-59048))

10.16

  

Note and Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated March 31, 2001 between the Company and JMG Convertible Investments, L.P. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on April 16, 2001 (Commission File No. 333-59048))

10.17

  

Note and Common Stock Purchase Agreement dated April 10, 2001 between the Company and Alexandra Global Investment Fund I, Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on April 16, 2001 (Commission File No. 333-59048))

10.18

  

Note Purchase Agreement dated June 14, 2001 between the Company and Alexandra Global Investment Fund, Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on August 8, 2001 (Commission File No. 333-59048))

10.19

  

Form of Share Purchase Agreement between the Company and certain purchasers relating to the 2001 Private Placement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on September 26, 2001 (Commission File No. 333-70226))

10.20

  

Form of Registration Rights Agreement between the Company and certain purchasers relating to the 2001 Private Placement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on September 26, 2001 (Commission File No. 333-70226))

*10.21

  

License Agreement dated as of December 14, 1994 between the Company and Sony Computer Entertainment of America (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on December 17, 1996)

*10.22

  

Licensed Publisher Agreement dated as of April 1, 2000 between the Company and Sony Computer Entertainment America (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 14, 2001)

*10.23

  

Licensed Publisher Agreement dated as of November 14, 2000 by and between the Company and Sony Computer Entertainment (Europe) Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on November 28, 2001)

*10.24

  

Confidential License Agreement for Nintendo’s N64 Video Game System (Western Hemisphere) between Nintendo of America Inc. and the Company, effective as of February 20, 1997 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended February 28, 1998)

 

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Exhibit No.


  

Description


 

*10.25

  

Confidential License Agreement for Game Boy Advance (Western Hemisphere) between Nintendo of America Inc. and the Company, effective July 11, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.23 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended August 31, 2001)

 

*10.26

  

Xbox Publisher License Agreement dated as of October 10, 2000 between the Company and Microsoft Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.24 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended August 31, 2001)

 

*10.27

  

Confidential License Agreement for Nintendo GameCube by and between the Company and Nintendo of America Inc., dated as of the 15th day of November, 2001 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 4, 2001)

 

10.28

  

Form of Share Purchase Agreement between the Company and certain purchasers relating to the February 2002 Private Placement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on March 15, 2002 (Commission File No. 333-84368))

 

10.29

  

Form of Registration Rights Agreement between the Company and certain purchasers relating to the February 2002 Private Placement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed on March 15, 2002 (Commission File No. 333-84368))

 

10.30

  

Promissory Note executed by Gregory E. Fischbach in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., dated July 2, 2001

 

10.31

  

Promissory Note executed by James R. Scoroposki in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., dated July 2, 2001

 

10.32

  

Promissory Note executed by Gregory E. Fischbach in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., dated October 1, 2001

 

10.33

  

Promissory Note executed by James R. Scoroposki in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., dated October 1, 2001

 

10.34

  

Amendment, dated June 25, 2002, to Promissory Note, dated July 2, 2001, executed by Gregory E. Fischbach in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.

 

10.35

  

Amendment, dated June 25, 2002, to Promissory Note, dated July 2, 2001, executed by James R. Scoroposki in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.

 

10.36

  

Amendment, dated June 25, 2002, to Promissory Note, dated October 1, 2001, executed by Gregory E. Fischbach in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.

 

10.37

  

Amendment, dated June 25, 2002, to Promissory Note, dated October 1, 2001, executed by James R. Scoroposki in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.

 

10.38

  

Promissory Note executed by Simon Hosken in favor of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., dated October 31, 2002.

10.39

  

Amendment and Modification to Revolving Credit and Security Agreement, dated March 31, 2003

10.40

  

Amended and Restated Cash Deposit Agreement between Gregory E. Fischbach and GMAC Commercial Finance, LLC, dated March 31, 2003

10.41

  

Amended and Restated Cash Deposit Agreement between James Scoroposki and GMAC Commercial Finance, LLC, dated March 31, 2003

10.42

  

Amended and Restated Limited Guaranty by Gregory E. Fischbach in favor of GMAC Commercial Finance, LLC, dated March 31, 2003

 

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Exhibit No.


  

Description


10.43

  

Amended and Restated Limited Guaranty by James Scoroposki in favor of GMAC Commercial Finance, LLC, dated March 31, 2003

10.44

  

Letter Agreement, dated March 31, 2003, between the Company’s Audit Committee and Gregory E. Fischbach and James Scoroposki

10.45

  

Form of Warrant Agreement between the Company and Gregory E. Fischbach, dated as of March 31, 2003

10.46

  

Form of Warrant Agreement between the Company and James Scoroposki, dated as of March 31,2003

 99.1

  

Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

99.2

  

Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of theSarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002


*   Confidential treatment has been granted with respect to certain portions of this exhibit, which have been omitted therefrom and have been separately filed with the Commission.
+   Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
  Filed herewith.

 

(b) Current Reports on Form 8-K:

 

1. Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 6, 2002;

 

2. Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 17, 2003;

 

3. Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 17, 2003;

 

4. Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 10, 2003.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

By:

 

/s/    GREGORY E. FISCHBACH


   

Gregory E. Fischbach

Co-Chairman of the Board

and Chief Executive Officer

 

May 20, 2003

 

By:

 

/s/    GERARD F. AGOGLIA


   

Gerard F. Agoglia

Executive Vice President

and Chief Financial Officer

(principal financial and accounting officer)

 

May 20, 2003

 

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CERTIFICATIONS

 

I, Gregory E. Fischbach, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;

 

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:

 

a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;

 

b) evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this quarterly report (the “Evaluation Date”); and

 

c) presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation as of the Evaluation Date;

 

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):

 

a) all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the registrant’s auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and

 

b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal controls; and

 

6. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have indicated in this quarterly report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

 

/s/    GREGORY E. FISCHBACH        


Gregory E. Fischbach

Chief Executive Officer

 

Date: May 20, 2003

 

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CERTIFICATIONS

 

I, Gerard F. Agoglia, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;

 

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:

 

a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;

 

b) evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this quarterly report (the “Evaluation Date”); and

 

c) presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation as of the Evaluation Date;

 

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):

 

a) all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the registrant’s auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and

 

b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal controls; and

 

6. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have indicated in this quarterly report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

 

/s/    GERARD F. AGOGLIA        


Gerard F. Agoglia

Chief Financial Officer

 

Date: May 20, 2003

 

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