BreakAway Games is a video game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States, established in 1998. Their executive staff is composed of several veterans from companies such as MicroProse, Origin Systems, Atari and Acclaim Entertainment.
Since 1998, BreakAway has distinguished itself as a developer of award winning simulation games in a variety of genres in partnership with companies such as Electronic Arts, Sierra Online, Hasbro, The Walt Disney Company and ABC Sports.
BreakAway Games first established themselves in the strategy game market with titles such as Sid Meier's Antietam! (1998), the 2000 expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile for Pharaoh, Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle (2001), Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory, the Paradise Island expansion for Tropico, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (2002), and the 2003 expansion Civilization III: Conquests. EA Los Angeles tasked them with the development of two expansion packs for their games: The Rise of the Witch-king for The Battle for Middle-Earth II in 2006 and Kane's Wrath for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars in 2008.