Castaway Entertainment was a video game developer

Video game developer

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. It was established by former employees of Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce and currently owned by French company Activision Blizzard...

's Blizzard North

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 division, the studio responsible for creating Diablo and Diablo II

Diablo II

Diablo II is a dark fantasy/horror-themed hack and slash, with elements of the role playing game and dungeon crawl genres. It was released for Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment, and was developed by Blizzard North. It is a direct sequel to the 1996 hit PC game, Diablo.Diablo II...

. It is based in Redwood City, California

Redwood City, California

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. The company signed a publishing agreement with Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

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 in March 2004, but has yet to produce any products.

Former Blizzard North

Blizzard North

Blizzard North was the Bay Area division of Blizzard Entertainment, known for the Diablo series. The studio was originally based in Redwood City, and then moved a short distance away to San Mateo, with Blizzard proper being based in Irvine .-History:Blizzard North was originally an independent...

 members who joined Castaway Entertainment include Michael Scandizzo

Michael Scandizzo

Michael Scandizzo is the president and project lead of Castaway Entertainment, a company formed out of former Blizzard North employees in 2003. He is also responsible for programming on Diablo II and the development of the Battle.net game server network...

, Stefan Scandizzo, Alan Ackerman, Steven Woo, Rick Seis, Ted Bisson, Bruno Bowden, Peter Brevik, Michael Huang, Kelly Johnson (artist), Michio Okamura

Michio Okamura

Michio Okamura is a computer game developer and artist. He was the lead artist for the popular computer game Diablo, and senior artist on Diablo II. He designed many of the game's characters, including the title character. He is currently the Creative Director at U.I...

, Tom Ricket (Shirt Guy Tom, of Sluggy Freelance

Sluggy Freelance

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 fame), and Fredrick Vaught (after whom the halls of Vaught in Diablo II

Diablo II

Diablo II is a dark fantasy/horror-themed hack and slash, with elements of the role playing game and dungeon crawl genres. It was released for Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment, and was developed by Blizzard North. It is a direct sequel to the 1996 hit PC game, Diablo.Diablo II...

 were named).

Other notable employees include game designer Bill Dunn and art director Rick Macaraeg.

On April 4, 2008, Michael Scandizzo announced that Castaway is suspending operations due to financial problems.

As of at least July 6, 2008, their website is a Russian Linux based forum.