former type defunct industry video games founded 1996 defunct 2000 headquarters bothell washington usa key people ron gilbert 1 chris taylor products total annihilation series number of employees approx . 20 1997 2 parent division of humongous entertainment website cavedog.com archived version 1998 04 28 cavedog.com archived version approx . 2000 cavedog entertainment or cavedog was a video game developer based in bothell washington . cavedog gained the attention of gamers and the gaming press alike with the 1997 release of total annihilation ta winning many accolades such as multiple game of the year honors 3 or being one of the greatest games of all time . 4 history edit cavedog entertainment was a label created in 1996 by humongous entertainment a developer of children s computer games founded by ron gilbert and shelley day to pursue the creation of mainstream games . 5 humongous entertainment was originally independent but was purchased in 1996 by gt interactive 1 a video game publisher later acquired by infogrames in 1999 later renamed to atari . in the same year squaresoft closed its office in redmond so many of their former developers were hired for cavedog notably game music composer jeremy soule and graphics designer clayton kauzlaric who created the logo for cavedog . 6 7 after two years of development on cavedog s first product total annihilation it was presented at the e3 at atlanta 1997 and published on september 30 1997 . the game s creator chris taylor left the company shortly before the release of the total annihilation core contingency expansion pack to found his own development house gas powered games . despite this loss cavedog released one more expansion pack total annihilation battle tactics as well as many freely downloadable enhancements and patches and built strong community support with their own online service boneyards now shut down that matched opponents and provided a continuing game campaign . in 1999 cavedog released the eagerly anticipated total annihilation kingdoms . ta kingdoms largely reused the ta game engine citation needed replacing the science fiction theme with one of fantasy . ta kingdoms did not resonate as well with critics or fans of the original title . one expansion pack was released the iron plague . the closure of cavedog came as the game industry began to experience a downturn in sales to which parent company gt interactive was no exception . besides the ta franchise cavedog had three ambitious 8 games in development but only total annihilation and ta kingdoms made it to store shelves and their sales were much smaller than their user base . citation needed the unfinished projects were amen the awakening a first person shooter ; elysium a fantasy adventure title and good & evil an adventure title from ron gilbert . with gt interactive spiraling into debt and no ship dates in sight all three were discontinued by the fall of 1999 . gt interactive was purchased by infogrames and the cavedog label was discarded by humongous entertainment in 2000 which renewed its focus on children s games . cavedog declared bankruptcy in 2000 . humongous entertainment was shut down in 2005 by infogrames now called atari . cavedog s developers have played significant roles at gas powered games and beep industries . references edit a b gt interactive launches cavedog entertainment a new internal software development studio . gtinteractive.com . 1997 02 05 . archived from the original on 1997 05 30 . retrieved 2011 01 07 . keighley geoff 1997 06 09 . ta team . gameslice.com . archived from the original on 1998 01 21 . retrieved 2011 03 26 . game of the year . best & worst awards 1997 . gamespot . 1998 01 31 . retrieved 2010 06 22 . kasavin greg 2004 03 26 . armed to the core total annihilation . the greatest games of all time . gamespot . retrieved 2010 06 22 . keighley geoffrey 2007 . the total annihilation the story so far . gamespot.com . archived from the original on 2007 08 07 . retrieved 2011 01 08 . keefer iii john . cavedog annihilation aggravation and anticipation . gamespy . retrieved 2011 03 31 . kauzlaric clayton 2006 10 02 . ta ncient history 4 dogs yaks & boron . ton of clay . retrieved 2011 03 26 . bye john june 25 2001 . the death of the celebrity studio . eurogamer . retrieved november 27 2007 . one by one their other projects were cancelled as it became obvious that the games were simply far too ambitious until in february 2000 the company was closed down entirely and its remaining staff absorbed into parent company humongous . external links edit cavedog entertainment profile on mobygames cavedog entertainment at dmoz v t e total annihilation video games total annihilation series total annihilation the core contingency battle tactics kingdoms the iron plague supreme commander series supreme commander forged alliance supreme commander 2 related boneyards spring engine zero k planetary annihilation authority control worldcat identities viaf 312731528 isni 0000 0001 0674 5765 bnf cb14040885z data retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cavedog entertainment & oldid 737107160 categories defunct companies based in bothell washingtonvideo game companies established in 1996companies disestablished in 2000defunct video game companiesking county washingtonvideo game companies of the united statesvideo game development companieshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2008articles with unsourced statements from october 2012articles with dmoz linkswikipedia articles with viaf identifierswikipedia articles with isni identifierswikipedia articles with bnf identifiers 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 deutschfran aispolskiportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 31 august 2016 at 20 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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