Barking Dog Studios was a video game company founded in May 1998 by several former students and/or employees of Relic Entertainment and other game companies. Their first game was titled Global Operations.

Barking Dog, with publishing assistance by Sierra Studios , moved on to produce a sequel to the 1999 PC Magazine Game of the Year Homeworld entitled Homeworld: Cataclysm. Homeworld had been developed by Relic Entertainment but Sierra chose instead to use Barking Dog to develop the game, which angered much of the fanbase.

Barking Dog was also retained by Valve Software for minor finishing touches on an early beta version of the popular first-person shooter Counter-Strike. Their legacy can be seen on the Counter-Strike map de_train where their cartoon dog logo can be seen on the side of a railcar.

Barking Dog also produced other games such as TransWorld Skateboarding and Treasure Planet but merged with another company based in Vancouver, Rockstar Vancouver who mostly produced first-person shooters and action games for the PlayStation 2 platform.