TimeGate Studios: История американского разработчика игр

American video game developer

TimeGate Studios was an American video game developer based in Sugar Land, Texas. The company, which was founded in 1998, released eight titles before closing in 2013.

TimeGate Studios was founded in 1998 by Alan and Adel Chaveleh, who respectively served as chairman and president of the studio. The company had worked with industry publishers such as Vivendi Games, Take Two Interactive, Atari, Ubisoft, SouthPeak Games, and Gamecock Media Group.

TimeGate Studios' debut real time strategy game, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, won positive critical reception receiving several awards including “Strategy Game of the Year” in 2001 by Computer Gaming World, PC Gamer, and Computer Games Magazine. Further sequels have been hinted upon by TimeGate stating, " it has never been our intent for it to be a one product franchise," in reference to Section 8. On April 20, 2011, TimeGate released a digital downloadable sequel to the game called Section 8: Prejudice. In late 2012, TimeGate were involved in the development of the much hyped science fiction first person shooter, Aliens: Colonial Marines. The game was outsourced to TimeGate by Borderlands developer Gearbox Software, who were originally assigned by publisher Sega to work on the Alien game. However, due to troubled development, the game was released in a rushed, incomplete state and received mostly negative reviews. Most issues were resolved with a post release patch. Nevertheless, the state of the game upon initial release led to TimeGate laying off twenty five members of its staff after its release. In 2013, it was announced that TimeGate was developing a new free to play game, titled Minimum, expected to be released at the end of the year.

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013, TimeGate Studios filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas Southern Bankruptcy Court, according to court documents obtained by Polygon.