Editing Cavedog Entertainment (section)

=== Early days ===
Cavedog Entertainment was a label created in 1995<ref name="Eurogamer: Obituary">{{cite web |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/cavedog_rip |title=Let Sleeping Dogs Die |author=Gestalt |date=February 28, 2000 |website=[[Eurogamer]]}}</ref> by [[Humongous Entertainment]], a developer of children's video games founded by [[Ron Gilbert]] and [[Shelley Day]], to pursue the creation of mainstream games.<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807085133/http://www.gamespot.com/features/totalstory/ |archivedate=August 7, 2007 |year=2007 |accessdate=January 8, 2011 |url=http://www.gamespot.com/features/totalstory/ |publisher=gamespot.com |first=Geoffrey |last=Keighley |title=The Total Annihilation: The Story So Far}}</ref> Humongous Entertainment was originally independent, but was purchased in 1996 by [[GT Interactive]].<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970530194653/http://www.cavedog.com/press/release1.html |title=GT INTERACTIVE LAUNCHES CAVEDOG ENTERTAINMENT, A NEW INTERNAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT STUDIO |archivedate=May 30, 1997 |date=February 5, 1997 |accessdate=January 7, 2011 |url=http://www.cavedog.com/press/release1.html |publisher=gtinteractive.com |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the same year [[Square (video game company)|Squaresoft]] closed its office in [[Redmond, Washington|Redmond]], many of their former developers were hired for Cavedog, notably game [[music composer]] [[Jeremy Soule]] and [[Graphic designer|graphics designer]] Clayton Kauzlaric, who created the [[logo]] for Cavedog.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/articles/cavedog_a.shtm |accessdate=March 31, 2011 |publisher=GameSpy |first=John |last=Keefer III |title=Cavedog: Annihilation, Aggravation and Anticipation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310174040/http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/articles/cavedog_a.shtm |archive-date=March 10, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ton-of-clay.blogspot.com/2006/10/by-spring-of-1997-total-annihilation.html |title=TA-ncient History #4: Dogs, Yaks & Boron |first=Clayton |last=Kauzlaric |date=October 2, 2006 |accessdate=March 26, 2011 |publisher=Ton of Clay}}</ref> After two years of development on Cavedog's first product, ''Total Annihilation'', it was presented at the 1997 [[Electronic Entertainment Expo|E3]] in Atlanta, and published on September 30, 1997.