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.
Releases TimeGate Studios' debut
real-time strategy game,
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, received several awards including "Strategy Game of the Year" in 2001 by
Computer Gaming World,
PC Gamer, and
Computer Games Magazine. Further sequels were hinted upon by TimeGate, stating in 2010, "...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 titled
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 25 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.
Bankruptcy 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. ==Games==