Crate Entertainment

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Crate Entertainment
PredecessorIron Lore Entertainment
FoundedMassachusetts, U.S. (February 18, 2008 (2008-02-18))
HeadquartersMassachusetts, U.S.
Key people
Arthur Bruno
ProductsGrim Dawn
Number of employees
13[1]
Websitehttp://www.crateentertainment.com

Crate Entertainment is an American

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

Following

which?][4]

On August 19, 2008, Crate announced the acquisition of the

U.S. economic recession publishers opted to pass on a large project from the studio.[4]

On July 27, 2009, Crate announced that it acquired a license 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]

On April 18, 2012, Crate gave an update on the Grim Dawn Kickstarter page, where it 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 defunct

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 on February 25, 2016 and received high critical praise.[9] On August 3, 2016, one of the Kickstarter goals - a survival mode - was released entitled "The Crucible" where players battle waves of foes across multiple arenas. An expansion for the game entitled "Ashes of Malmouth" was released on 11 October 2017 adding two more Acts to the game as well as two more masteries: Inquisitor and Necromancer. On March 5, 2018 Crate announced a second expansion for the game entitled "Forgotten Gods" which was released on March 27, 2019.[10]

In a live dev stream on Twitch on 19 April 2019 Crate announced that Forgotten Gods had sold over 100,000 copies and collectively between all of the DLCs and the base game Grim Dawn had sold over 3 million copies.[11]

On 11 January 2021, Crate announced their next project would be a town-building game entitled Farthest Frontier, which the company anticipated would be released as an early access game on Steam some time in 2021.[12][13]

On 3 December 2021 Crate released the Grim Dawn Definitive Edition on Xbox.[14]

On 25 February 2022 Crate announced that the game and DLC's had sold 7 million copies.[15]

On 9 August 2022 Crate's town building game Farthest Frontier went into early access on Steam.

On 29 August 2023 in a live dev stream Crate announced a 3rd expansion for Grim Dawn entitled Fangs of Asterkarn provisionally planned to release in 2024. https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/announcing-fangs-of-asterkarn/129879

Games

References

  1. ^ "About". Crate Entertainment. Crate Entertainment, LLC. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Crate Entertainment Website - News Archive". Archived from the original on 2010-04-02. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  3. ^ "Joystiq News Article: "Defunct Titan Quest dev lives on as Crate Entertainment"". Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  4. ^ a b c "Crate Entertainment Website - News Archive". Archived from the original on 2010-04-02. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  5. ^ "Crate Entertainment Website". Archived from the original on 2010-04-29. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  6. ^ "Worth Playing News Article: "'Grim Dawn' Announced"". Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  7. ^ "Joystiq News Article: "Former Titan Quest devs announce Grim Dawn"". Retrieved 2010-04-21.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. CBS Interactive
    . Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  10. ^ "Forgotten Gods is coming March 27th!". 8 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Forthcoming Forgotten Gods expac - what we know so far Part II". 28 July 2018. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  12. ^ "City Builder Farthest Frontier Announced by Grim Dawn Developer". TechRaptor. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  13. ^ "Farthest Frontier – Crate Entertainment". www.farthestfrontier.com. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  14. ^ "Grim Dawn: Definitive Edition now available on Xbox!". 3 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Happy 6th Birthday Grim Dawn!". 25 February 2022.
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