All 200 of the studio’s employees will help with games like “Overwatch.”
Game publisher Activision is merging one of its most established help studios into Blizzard. On Friday, the organization disclosed to GamesIndustry that every one of the 200 colleagues of Vicarious Visions is currently a representative of Blizzard. Furthermore, moving forward, they’ll be “completely committed to existing Blizzard games and activities.”
That implies Vicarious Visions, which chipped away at a year ago’s amazing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 remaster, won’t make its games any longer. All things being equal, it will help Blizzard with projects like Overwatch and World of Warcraft. “After collaborating with Vicarious Visions for some time and developing a great relationship, Blizzard realized there was an opportunity for [the studio] to provide long-term support,” a spokesperson for Activision told the publication.
While it didn’t have the cachet of Infinity Ward or Treyarch, Vicarious Visions had a significant influence on Activision’s business. After Activision gained the designer in 2005, it proceeded to work on games like Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro for the PlayStation 2 and ported a considerable number of Activision’s most mainstream titles, like Guitar Hero and Skylanders, to portable platforms. It likewise chipped away at the 2017 Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy remaster.
If there’s a silver lining to the present news, it’s that the group won’t need to move their families to California; the studio is waiting in Albany, New York. Furthermore, they will chip away at games millions of individuals love to play.
