Crave Entertainment

Crave Entertainment
Subsidiary
Industry
Fate Dissolved, due to bankruptcy
Founded 1997 (1997)
Founder Nima Taghavi
Defunct 2012 (2012)
Headquarters Newport Beach, California, United States
Key people
  • Nima Taghavi (CEO)
  • Vincent Bitetti (President)[1]
Parent HandlePoint Corp, LLC
Website CraveGames.com (archived version)

Crave Entertainment was an American video game company that went bankrupt in 2012. It was founded in 1997 by Nima Taghavi. Its headquarters was in Newport Beach, California. It was acquired by Handleman Company in 2005 in a deal valued up to $95,000,000 but was then sold to Fillpoint LLC in early 2009 for only $8,100,000 due to Handleman's bankruptcy and pending liquidation. During its lifetime it published games for Dreamcast, Wii, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox, and Xbox 360. Crave mainly focused on budget titles, and imported games such as Kaido Battle.

Crave's old logo 2004-2011

Games published and/or developed by Crave Entertainment

Cancelled games

  • H20verdrive
  • Jeanette Lee's Virtual Pool
  • Man vs. Wild (DS and PSP versions)
  • Pilot Academy
  • Powershot Pinball
  • Pro Bull Riders: Out of the Chute (Xbox 360 version)
  • Project Cairo (Nintendo 64 DD, developed by Craveyard)[2]
  • Savage Safari Hunt
  • SnoCross 2 Featuring Blair Morgan (Xbox version)
  • Supershot Golf Robot
  • Jet Ion GP (released in Europe in 2002, the U.S. release was cancelled)
  • The Lost (PAL regions only)
  • UFC: Tapout (Dreamcast version)
  • World Championship Poker All In
  • Wave Runner (Dreamcast version)
  • Infinity (Game Boy Color, developed by Affinix Software)

References

  1. ↑ "Crave Gets New President". IGN. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.ign.com/articles/1997/11/20/details-on-crave-rpg-uncovered
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