The Collective (company)

The Collective, Inc. was an American video game development company located in Newport Beach, California. The company has created several games based on movies and television shows since its founding in 1997.

History
The Collective, Inc. was founded by three former Virgin Interactive employees, Douglas Hare, Gary Priest, and Richard Hare, in 1997. The company's first projects were to port Men in Black: The Game Windows game to the PlayStation. The developer predominantly worked on titles of licensed movies and TV series. The Collective, Inc. created their own game engine called Slayer, first used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all later titles. In 2004, the company had grown to 90 employees.

On March 29, 2005, The Collective, Inc. merged with Backbone Entertainment to form their parent company, Foundation 9 Entertainment, and remain its subsidiaries. In 2007, however, Foundation 9 Entertainment relocated The Collective, Inc. to Irvine, California and merged it with Shiny Entertainment to form Double Helix Games.