Floodgate Entertainment

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{{Infobox company
| name = Floodgate Entertainment, LLC
| type = [[Subsidiary]] of [[Zynga]]
| foundation= 2000
| defunct = 2014
| successor = [[OtherSide Entertainment]]
| location = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| key_people = [[Paul Neurath]], Creative Director<ref name=companypage>{{cite web | url=http://www.floodg.com/company.html | title=About Floodgate | publisher=Floodgate Entertainment | accessdate=March 24, 2009 }}</ref>, Matthew Bellows, [[Steve Meretzky]], [[Heather Wilde (author)|Heather Wilde]]
| industry = [[Video game industry]]
| products = [[Video game]]s
| parent = [[Zynga]]
| revenue =
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| homepage = [http://www.floodg.com/ floodg.com]
}}
'''Floodgate Entertainment''' was a [[Boston]]-based [[video game developer]], founded by [[Paul Neurath]] in 2000. Many of the company's employees are former [[Looking Glass Studios]] employees.<ref name=pressrelease />

Floodgate co-developed ''[[Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide]]'' alongside [[BioWare]],<ref name=pressrelease>{{cite web | url=http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/press_releases/nwnxp1/ | title=BioWare and ATARI announce ''Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide'' | publisher=[[BioWare]] | date=November 27, 2002 | accessdate=March 24, 2009 }}</ref> and ''[[Dark Messiah of Might and Magic]]'' alongside [[Arkane Studios]].<ref name=floodg>{{cite web | url=http://www.floodg.com/darkmessiah.html | title=''Dark Messiah of Might and Magic'' | publisher=Floodgate Entertainment | accessdate=March 24, 2009 }}</ref> In 2006, they signed a deal with [[Sony BMG Music Entertainment]] to distribute their game ''Mo-Pets''.<ref name=pressrelease2>{{cite web | url=http://games.sonybmg.com/news/mopets_110206.html | title=Mo-Pets will host cat, dog, ferret and monkey talent shows on US phones | publisher=[[Sony BMG]] | date=November 2, 2006 | accessdate=March 24, 2009 }}</ref> Recently, the company has focused on [[casual game|casual]] [[mobile games]]. In 2014, Zynga closed Floodgate Entertainment.

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