Barking Dog Studios

Barking Dog Studios was a video game company founded in May . Homeworld had been developed by Relic Entertainment but Sierra chose instead to use Barking Dog to develop the game, which angered much of the fanbase.

Barking Dog was also retained by Valve Software for minor finishing touches on an early Development_stage#Beta version of the popular first-person shooter Counter-Strike. Their legacy can be seen on the Counter-Strike map de_train where their cartoon dog logo can be seen on the side of a railcar.

Barking Dog also produced other games such as Global Operations, TransWorld Skateboarding and Treasure Planet. They were acquired by Rockstar Games in August 2002, and became known as Rockstar Vancouver.

Many Barking Dog employees later split off to form their own companies, such as Kerberos Productions and Ironclad Games.