All 200 of the studio’s employees will help with games like “Overwatch.”
Game publisher Activision is collapsing one of its most established help studios into Blizzard. On Friday, the organization disclosed to GamesIndustry.biz every one of the 200 colleagues of Vicarious Visions is currently representatives of Blizzard. Furthermore, pushing ahead, 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 own 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 an Infinity Ward or Treyarch, Vicarious Visions actually had a significant influence on Activision’s business. After Activision gained the designer in 2005, it proceeded to work games like Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro for the PlayStation 2, and ported a considerable lot of Activision’s most mainstream establishments like Guitar Hero and Skylanders to versatile stages. It likewise chipped away at the 2017 Crash Bandicoot N. Normal Trilogy remaster.
In the event that there’s a silver coating 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 ordinary.