Snowblind Studios

Snowblind Studios was the video game developer based in Washington that developed and released The Lord of the Rings: War in the North in 2011 - the company since then became a part of Monolith Productions, the makers of the later RPG Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.

History
Snowblind Studios was founded in Bothell, Washington in 1997, and for a decade they developed eight video games (such as Baldur's Gate) for many different platforms. In 2009, as War in the North was in the works, Snowblind became a part of the mass media company Time Warner. The Studios' headquarters were last based in Kirkland, Washington, until in 2010, it was relocated to Monolith Productions, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (a division of Time Warner).

Once War in the North was released - for Mac OS X, Play Station 3, Xbox 360, and Windows - the studio became wholly merged into Monolith - thus Snowblind Studios is considered "defunct" as of 2012. On their website, there is no recent, dated news since 2010.