SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. was an American

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. It was founded in 1994 by Michael Ryder, Todd Kelly, and Michael Bartholomew, who were former employees of

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, bringing their 3D graphics and software engineering skills into the video game industry. Its most famous titles were the ''

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'' and ''

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'' video game series. At its heyday, it was closely associated with

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, with whom they produced the above two series. The company's first two games, '' WarHawk'' and ''

'', were major critical and commercial successes, leading publisher

to contract two further games from SingleTrac. SingleTrac had ambitions of becoming a video game publisher as well as developer. In early 1997, the company signed a deal with

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to enable them to publish PC games, but these plans never came to fruition. Later in 1997, SingleTrac signed on as a developer for the

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, but they ultimately never produced any Nintendo 64 games. After producing the two contracted games for Sony Computer Entertainment, SingleTrac was bought by the

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. It was closed down in 2000 before GT Interactive itself was bought out by

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Lineage

A group of SingleTrac employees broke off and formed the game studio

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in 1999, and went on to make some additional entries in the former SingleTrac franchise ''Twisted Metal'' and a sequel to SingleTrac's first game '' WarHawk'', both for Sony Computer Entertainment. In 2009, most of the team members left Incognito to form

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and

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rendering Incognito defunct. Both studios would go on to develop the same two former SingleTrac franchises Incognito made entries in - Eat Sleep Play developed a PS3 entry in the ''

'' series and LightBox Interactive developed a spiritual successor to the Warhawk series, ''

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''. Eat Sleep Play transitioned to mobile development right before releasing its PS3 entry in the ''Twisted Metal'' series and shutting down in 2017. LightBox Interactive's contract with Sony expired right after the release of ''Starhawk'' and is considered defunct since 2012.

Developed games

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