Editing Cavedog Entertainment (section)

{{short description|Defunct video game company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Cavedog Entertainment
| logo = Cavedog Entertainment Logo.jpg
| type = [[Division (business)|Division]]
| industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| fate = [[Dissolution (law)|Dissolved]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|1995}}
| founders = {{Unbulleted list|[[Shelley Day]]|[[Ron Gilbert]]}}
| defunct = {{End date and age|2000|02|11}}<ref name="Eurogamer: Obituary" />
| hq_location_city = [[Bothell, Washington]]
| hq_location_country = US
| key_people = Ron Gilbert ([[creative director]])<br />[[Chris Taylor (video game designer)|Chris Taylor]] (TA's creator)
| num_employees = ≈20<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gameslice.com/interview/ta/ta-team.html |title=TA-Team |accessdate=March 26, 2011 |publisher=gameslice.com |first=Geoff |last=Keighley |date=June 9, 1997 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19980121165535/http://www.gameslice.com/interview/ta/ta-team.html |archivedate=January 21, 1998}}</ref>
| num_employees_year = 1997
| products = ''[[Total Annihilation]]'' series<br />''[[Total Annihilation: Kingdoms]]'' series
| parent = [[Humongous Entertainment]]
}}

'''Cavedog Entertainment''' was a [[video game developer|PC game developer]] and publisher based in [[Bothell, Washington]]. Founded in 1995 as a [[Division (business)|division]] of [[edutainment]] game developer [[Humongous Entertainment]], Cavedog was known for the 1997 release of ''[[Total Annihilation]]''—which won several accolades, such as multiple ''[[List of Game of the Year awards|Game of the Year]]'' honors<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/features/awards97/game.html |title=Game of the Year |work=Best & Worst Awards 1997 |publisher=GameSpot |date=January 31, 1998 |accessdate=June 22, 2010}}</ref>—considered one of the "greatest games of all time" in 2004 by ''[[GameSpot]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/greatestgames/p-43.html |title=Armed to the Core: Total Annihilation |first=Greg |last=Kasavin |work=The Greatest Games of All Time |publisher=GameSpot |date=March 26, 2004 |accessdate=June 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308095557/http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/greatestgames/p-43.html |archivedate=March 8, 2013}}</ref>