entertainment predecessor iron lore entertainment founded massachusetts u.s. february 18 2008 2008 02 18 headquarters massachusetts u.s. key people arthur bruno products grim dawn number of employees 10 1 website http www.crateentertainment.com crate entertainment is an independent video game developer based in massachusetts . the company was publicly announced on february 18 2008 by former members of iron lore entertainment . 2 3 history edit following iron lore entertainment s failure to secure funding for its next project it was announced on february 18 2008 that former members of iron lore had created a new company . several days later it was announced that the company would be working as a contractor for fellow massachusetts based demiurge studios providing art and design leadership on one of the company s projects . 4 several months later on august 19 2008 crate announced the acquisition of the black legion intellectual property that has been in development at iron lore entertainment before that studio closed . iron lore had attracted significant interest from publishers while pitching black legion in late 2007 but had not been able to survive long enough to close a publishing deal . crate had hoped to pick up on the momentum that black legion had gained but due to the u.s. economic recession publishers opted to pass on a large project from the studio . 4 after nearly a year of silence crate announced on july 27 2009 that the company had acquired licensing to use iron lore s titan quest game engine for their new action role playing game project . 4 on january 21 2010 crate announced that the name of their new project would be grim dawn . 5 6 7 in an update provided to the grim dawn kickstarter project on april 18 2012 crate revealed that the core of the company consists of only two full time employees with additional work being provided by former iron lore employees when needed . 8 after the strong success of the kickstarter campaign where they received nearly double their funding target in pledges crate were able to hire additional staff several of whom were former employees of the failed 38 studios . this allowed crate to significantly increase the rate of development and on may 15 2013 the grim dawn alpha build 8 was released . on november 5 2013 the game was released on steam early access . in june 2015 crate announced that they had hired eric sexton former artist and designer at blizzard north stating that his role primarily involved world building and the development of lore . grim dawn was released in february 25 2016 and received high critical praise . 9 references edit about . crate entertainment . crate entertainment llc . retrieved 4 july 2014 . crate entertainment website news archive . retrieved 2010 04 21 . joystiq news article defunct titan quest dev lives on as crate entertainment . retrieved 2010 04 21 . a b c crate entertainment website news archive . retrieved 2010 04 21 . crate entertainment website . retrieved 2010 04 21 . worth playing news article grim dawn announced . retrieved 2010 04 21 . joystiq news article former titan quest devs announce grim dawn . retrieved 2010 04 21 . grim dawn by crate entertainment answers to questions do you have a publisher how big is crate how far along is grim dawn kickstarter . retrieved 2012 04 26 . grim dawn for pc reviews . metacritic . cbs interactive . retrieved june 30 2016 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crate entertainment & oldid 727674851 categories companies based in massachusettscompanies established in 2008video game companies of the united statesvideo game development companies 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 add links this page was last modified on 30 june 2016 at 14 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view