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Cavedog Entertainment was a computer game developer based in Bothell, Washington. It was founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day in 1995 as a label and sister company to Humongous Entertainment to work on more mature titles.

The company solely released games in the Total Annihilation franchise, a series of real-time strategy games. The series' creator, Chris Taylor, left the company short after the release of the first game's expansion to set up his own company: Gas Powered Games.

Cavedog Entertainment was working on three more projects: the first-person shooter Amen: The Awakening, the episodic fantasy adventure Elysium and the adventure Good & Evil, but the 3 games were cancelled by the fall of 1999 by parent company GT Interactive. Not long after GT Interactive was purchased by Infogrames, Humongous Entertainment discarded the Cavedog label, releasing their final title Total Annihilation: Kingdoms - Iron Plague in 2000.

Most of the Cavedog developers went on to work at Gas Powered Games and Beep Industries.