Monolith Productions is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington. It was founded in October 1994 by Brian Goble, Garrett Price, Paul Renault, Toby Gladwell, Brian Waite, and Jace Hall. The company is known for their games Blood, the No One Lives Forever series, F.E.A.R, and Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor. Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine LithTech, which has been used for most of their games and premiered with Shogo Mobile Armor Division in September 1998 they also used Brian Goble's Windows Animation Package 32 engine for their 2D games. Between 1997 and 1999, Monolith also published games – some developed by the studio, some by third parties. In 2004, Monolith Productions was acquired by Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner.