Liquid Entertainment

Type	Private
Industry	Video game industry
Founded	February 1999
Founder(s)	Ed Del Castillo, Mike Grayford
Headquarters	Pasadena, California, United States
Key people	Ed Del Castillo, Holly Newman
Products	Battle Realms, LotR: War of the Ring, D&D: Dragonshard, Desperate Housewives: The Game, Rise of the Argonauts
Website	http://www.liquidentertainment.net

Liquid Entertainment is a video game developer based in Pasadena, California. Liquid was co-founded in 1999 by Ed Del Castillo and Michael Grayford.^[1]

Overview

Ed Del Castillo and Michael Grayford worked on a number of high profile computer games prior to founding Liquid Entertainment. Aside from his work with Liquid, Del Castillo is best known as the producer for the Command & Conquer series. Michael Grayford's game credits include programming for Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate, Legend of Kyrandia: Malcom's Revenge, Monopoly: CD-ROM, Lands of Lore II, and Blade Runner.

Battle Realms, released by Crave and Ubisoft in November, 2001, is a real-time strategy PC game for Windows that features an unconventional approach to resource management and unit development. It was well received by reviewers, many of whom praised its at-the-time state of the art 3D engine and East Asian-inspired setting and aesthetics.

A stand-alone expansion pack, Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf, followed in April, 2002. Winter of the Wolf was received with less enthusiasm than Battle Realms by the gaming community;^[3] some reviewers compared it unfavorably to 2002's blockbuster real-time strategy titles such as Warcraft III and Age of Mythology.

Since the release of Winter of the Wolf, Liquid has developed two real-time strategy PC games based on intellectual property licenses. In November, 2003, Sierra released The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, based on Vivendi Universal's license to Tolkien's literary works. Atari released the licensed Dungeons & Dragons PC game Dragonshard in October, 2005.

In October, 2006, Buena Vista Games released Desperate Housewives: The Game, Liquid's lifestyle simulation computer game adaptation of the popular television series Desperate Housewives.

Codemasters released Rise of the Argonauts, a Greek mythology-themed action role-playing game for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in December 2008.^[5]

Games developed

• Battle Realms (2001), published by Crave Entertainment and Ubisoft
• Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf (2002), published by Crave Entertainment and Ubisoft
• The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring (2003), published by Sierra Entertainment
• Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard (2005), published by Atari
• Desperate Housewives: The Game (2006), published by Buena Vista Games
• Rise of the Argonauts (2008), published by Codemasters
• Thor (PlayStation3 & Xbox 360; 2011), published by SEGA