video game industry fate acquired by mumbojumbo assets acquired by iplay.com founded 1996 defunct 2007 headquarters dallas texas united states website www.ritual.com ritual entertainment was a video game developer established in 1996 by robert atkins mark dochtermann jim dos richard levelord gray michael hadwin harry miller and tom mustaine . based in dallas texas ritual entertainment was formerly known as hipnotic interactive during which period they began development of their signature video game sin . members of the ritual entertainment development team have contributed game assets to other titles such as american mcgee s alice medal of honor airborne tomb raider legend and 25 to life and are also the creators of bertools for id tech 3 which has been licensed for a number of other games . on january 24 2007 developer mumbojumbo announced the acquisition of ritual entertainment . 1 with this acquisition ritual s focus on traditional action oriented games was changed to casual games essentially stalling ritual s latest game series sin episodes after releasing only one episode out of a planned nine . the purchase followed months of departures of several key employees including chief executive officer steve nix who became director of business development at id software 2 vice president and co founder tom mustaine who left to found escalation studios . several months after the acquisition community relations manager steve hessel left the company to join splash damage . 3 prior to the announcement on december 6 2006 ritual announced the appointment of ken harward as the company s new studio director . 4 contents 1 games developed 1.1 unreleased 2 references 3 external links games developed edit quake mission pack no. 1 scourge of armagon expansion pack 1997 pc developed as hipnotic interactive sin 1998 pc windows and linux linux on powerpc both linux versions ported by hyperion entertainment heavy metal f.a.k.k. 2000 pc windows and linux mac mac os and mac os x dreamcast linux version ported by loki software mac os classic version ported by contraband entertainment mac os x version ported by the omni group blair witch volume 3 the elly kedward tale 2000 pc sin gold port 2000 mac ported by contraband entertainment counter strike condition zero pc ritual entertainment was working on the title in 2002 after gearbox software and before turtle rock studios took over in mid 2003 star trek elite force ii 2003 pc legacy of kain defiance 2003 playstation 2 xbox pc external collaboration with crystal dynamics delta force black hawk down team sabre expansion 2004 pc sin episodes emergence 2006 pc unreleased edit the lord of the rings the two towers pc cancelled sin ii publisher demo 2003 pc ritual entertainment made a game demo to show potential publishers . legacy of kain the dark prophecy 2004 cancelled sin episode 2 cancelled references edit ritual entertainment acquired by casual games developer january 24th 2007 archived september 5 2008 at the wayback machine . id software welcomes new member planet quake friday december 1 2006 ritualistic ritual entertainment s online community hub ritual apparently not exploded announces new studio director ritualistic forums external links edit ritualistic ritual s online community hub v t e ritual entertainment sin series sin sin episodes legacy of kain series legacy of kain defiance legacy of kain the dark prophecy canceled other games heavy metal f.a.k.k. blair witch volume 3 the elly kedward tale star trek elite force ii the lord of the rings the two towers canceled 25 to life american mcgee s alice counter strike condition zero transfered expansions quake mission pack scourge of armagon delta force black hawk down team sabre retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ritual entertainment & oldid 743419508 categories video game companies of the united statescompanies based in dallascompanies established in 1996companies disestablished in 2007defunct video game companiesvideo game development companieshidden categories articles with wayback machine links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa olfran aisitaliano suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 15 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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