games 1998 2013 type private industry video game industry interactive entertainment founded may 1998 headquarters redmond washington usa key people chris taylor products dungeon siege dungeon siege ii supreme commander supreme commander 2 demigod chris taylor s kings and castles number of employees 130 parent wargaming 2013 present website wargaming.com wargaming seattle formerly known as gas powered games is a video game developer located in redmond washington . the development studio was started in may 1998 by chris taylor creator of total annihilation and several other ex cavedog entertainment employees . 1 in 2013 they became the seattle studio of wargaming.net . contents 1 history 2 gpgnet 3 games 4 references 5 external links history edit gas powered games logo the studio formed in 1998 as gas powered games with their launch title being the 2002 3d role playing video game dungeon siege published by microsoft game studios . apart from its custom graphics engine it also featured simple and innovative rpg rules and mechanics that made it stand out from a market already crowded with sword & sorcery fantasy role playing games . in 2003 gas powered released a stand alone expansion pack for the game dungeon siege legends of aranna . the expansion was co developed by mad doc software and again published by microsoft game studios . in august 2005 gas powered released its sequel to dungeon siege dungeon siege ii . in march 2006 take two interactive purchased the full publishing rights of the dungeon siege series ending the four year microsoft partnership with gas powered games . 2 3 gpg released supreme commander supcom a real time strategy game in february 2007 published by thq . announced in the august 2005 issue of pc gamer magazine chris taylor touted supcom as the spiritual successor to total annihilation as ta remains the intellectual property of atari . as a stand alone expansion supreme commander forged alliance was announced in june 2007 for a november release . 4 in may 2007 gas powered games announced a partnership with sega to work on an original rpg . on july 6 2007 the original rpg was announced as space siege . the game was released on august 12 2008 to generally middling reviews . 5 in january 2008 gpg announced a new project demigod to be released sometime in early 2009 . 6 it is an action rpg rts hybrid inspired by the warcraft iii mod defense of the ancients . demigod was released on 14 april 2009 in the usa . 7 on november 12 2008 square enix announced that it would be partnering with gas powered games to create supreme commander 2 . 8 the game was released in march 2010 for the pc and xbox 360 with a version for mac os x following in september 2010 . on february 24 2011 it was announced that gas powered games would be taking over development on the upcoming rts game age of empires online replacing robot entertainment on the project . 9 gas powered games has also announced plans to create a real time strategy game named kings and castles which will use the game engine from supreme commander 2 . 10 on jan 4 2013 it was noted in an age of empires online blog post 11 that gpg would no longer be supporting the game . approximately two weeks prior to this announcement gpg put up a teaser web site announcement for a project w 12 on jan 14 2013 gas powered games announced the kickstarter project wildman declared to be an evolutionary action rpg 13 four days later on january 18 gpg had to lay off roughly 40 employees with the ultimate fate of the company riding on the kickstarter campaign . 14 on feb 11 2013 gas powered games canceled their kickstarter project wildman four days before it was due to finish announcing that they wanted to focus their attention on other ways to keep gas powered games running 15 three days later wargaming.net announced that they were in talks to buy gas powered games . 16 later gas powered games was absorbed into wargaming.net to become wargaming seattle which ended gas powered games as an independent studio . gpgnet edit gpgnet was an online gaming service run by the company . it was used with supreme commander supreme commander forged alliance dungeon siege dungeon siege ii and space siege . games edit title year platform dungeon siege 2002 pc mac dungeon siege legends of aranna 2003 pc dungeon siege ii 2005 pc dungeon siege ii broken world 2006 pc supreme commander 2007 pc xbox 360 supreme commander forged alliance 2007 pc space siege 2008 pc demigod 2009 pc supreme commander 2 2010 pc mac xbox 360 age of empires online 2011 2012 pc kings and castles on hold wildman cancelled 17 pc references edit keighley geoffrey 2007 . the total annihilation the story so far . gamespot . archived from the original on 2007 08 07 . retrieved 2011 01 08 . new dungeon siege titles coming from 2k games . retrieved 2009 04 28 . 2k grabs deeds to dungeon siege . retrieved 2009 04 28 . thq announces supreme commander tm forged alliance for windows pc coming in november 2007 . butts steve 2008 08 12 . space siege review . ign . retrieved 2011 03 27 . demigod revealed . 1up . com . 2008 01 03 . retrieved 2008 01 04 . demigod released stardoc . square enix orders supreme commander 2 . retrieved 2009 04 28 . age of empires online swaps devs . pc gamer . 2011 02 24 . retrieved 2011 03 27 . gas powered games announces chris taylor s kings and castles press release . 2010 02 15 . retrieved 2010 02 17 . age of empires blog post . develop online gas powered ends age of empires online support . gas powered games wildman kickstarter page . schreier jason . massive layoffs crush gas powered games just days after launch of 1.1 million kickstarter update . kotaku . schreier jason . with four days to go chris taylor cancels wildman kickstarter . kotaku . narcisse evan . world of tanks company buys gas powered games . kotaku . sliwinksi alexander . wildman kickstarter canceled by gas powered games . joystiq . external links edit wargaming seattle s official website 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