Relic Entertainment
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | May 1997 |
| Founder |
Alex Garden Luke Moloney |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Products |
Dawn of War series Company of Heroes series |
| Owner | Sega Sammy Holdings |
| Parent | Sega Games Co., Ltd. |
| Website | relic.com |
Relic Entertainment is a Canadian video game developer founded in 1997. The studio specializes in PC real-time strategy games and is known for series such as Homeworld, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, and Company of Heroes. Acquired by THQ in 2004, the company was sold to Sega on January 22, 2013 as part of THQ's bankruptcy.
Relic was started in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Alex Garden and Luke Moloney in 1997. Their first title, Homeworld, was released on September 28, 1999 to critical acclaim and successful sales. Though they did not immediately continue working on the franchise (Sierra Entertainment, the game's publisher, owned the rights), the game did have a spin-off, Homeworld: Cataclysm, developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by Sierra.
Their next title was Impossible Creatures, released by Microsoft on January 7, 2003. It focused on a fictional environment during the 1930s, allowing players to design units from different anatomical parts of animals. The game was successful, though it did not receive the same attention as Homeworld.
Homeworld 2 was released on September 16, 2003. Although it boasted improved graphics and features and changed some elements of gameplay from the original, reviews cited some issues and did not score it as highly as its predecessor.
On April 27, 2004, publisher THQ announced it was acquiring Relic for close to US$10 million in an all-cash transaction, completed around early May, 2004.
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