Cavedog Entertainment Announces New Development Focus; First-Person Shooter Amen: The Awakening Cancelled.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2000 Studio to Shift Efforts to Total Annihilation Total Annihilation (abbr. TA) is a futuristic RTS (real-time strategy) PC game, created by Chris Taylor and Cavedog Entertainment and released on September 30, 1997<ref name="Gamespot Total Annihilation" /> by GT Interactive. (TM) Franchise and Boneyards Boneyards was the massive online server created for the Total Annihilation series of computer games by Cavedog Entertainment, allowing thousands of players to compete in organised battle over the internet. (TM) Online Community Cavedog Entertainment Cavedog Entertainment, or Cavedog, was a computer game developer based in Bothell, Washington. Cavedog released the real-time strategy games Total Annihilation; its two expansion packs ( and Battle Tactics); and , and its expansion pack today announced the decision to refocus internal product development. As part of the restructuring, the company plans to cease development of the first-person action game Amen: The Awakening(TM), which despite positive first impressions has fallen significantly behind schedule. Cavedog Entertainment's direction includes a greater focus on core products in the international award-winning Total Annihilation(TM) franchise of real-time strategy A real-time strategy (RTS) video game is one that is distinctly not turn-based. The phrase real-time is used to distinguish such games within the broader genre of strategic wargames, which has a longer history both inside and outside of video gaming. games as well as the company's popular Boneyards(TM) online gaming See gaming. community. The change in development direction will allow Cavedog Entertainment to successfully grow its better-established brands and provide an opportunity to create highly anticipated products, such as Total Annihilation 2, the third title in the Total Annihilation franchise. Garnering more than 50 awards of excellence, including Game of the Year and Greatest Game of All Time, Total Annihilation burst upon the gaming scene as Cavedog Entertainment's debut title in 1997. Cavedog Entertainment's commitment to providing players with quick and easy access to new worlds of online gaming fun was introduced with the creation of the Boneyards online gaming community in 1998. Designed for players of Cavedog Entertainment products, Boneyards provides personalized and scalable arenas for chatting, opportunities to challenge opponents and initiate multi-player battles, a deep ladder and ranking system, company-sponsored tournaments and much more. The Total Annihilation series was expanded once again with the development of the fantasy real-time strategy game Total Annihilation: Kingdoms(TM), which debuted at the No. 1 spot on PC Data's best selling charts in 1999. The company is currently putting the finishing touches finishing touches finish npl the finishing touches → der letzte Schliff finishing touches npl → ultimi ritocchi mpl on The Iron Plague(TM), the official expansion to Total Annihilation: Kingdoms. Scheduled for March release in more than 45 countries, The Iron Plague introduces a fifth civilization that will battle for control of the mythical land of Darien. In 2000 and beyond, Cavedog Entertainment plans to continually explore the Total Annihilation universe with innovative new concepts and projects. Cavedog Entertainment Cavedog Entertainment, based in the Seattle area, was created in 1995 by Ron Gilbert Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. , Shelley Day Shelley Day was a producer of children's video games. After leaving LucasArts, she founded Humongous Entertainment with colleague Ron Gilbert. She created the famous Putt-Putt character as a bedtime story for her son, which became a series of popular children's video games. , and a team of the game industry's leading designers, programmers and artists to explore interactive gaming and create new standards of fun. Cavedog Entertainment can be found on the Internet at www.cavedog.com. GT Interactive Headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , GT Interactive Software Corp. (Nasdaq:GTIS GTIS Government Telecommunications and Informatics Services (Canada) GTIS Global Trade Information Services GTIS GOES Tap Imaging System GTIS Government Technical Information Services (Canada) ) is a leading global developer, publisher and distributor of interactive consumer software. The company maintains seven internal development studios: Humongous Entertainment, Cavedog Entertainment, SingleTrac, WizardWorks, Oddworld, Legend Entertainment and Reflections. The company has publishing operations throughout the world with offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Holland and Australia. GT Interactive's ecommerce system provides secure online transactions through each of the studios' Web sites and www.gtstore.com. 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