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Vorlage:Refimprove Vorlage:Infobox company Vicarious Visions is an American video game developer. Vicarious Visions's games accounted for over 2.5 billion dollars in retail sales and over 40 million units of its software have been sold worldwide. The headquarters of Vicarious Visions is located in Menands, New York.
Studio history
The studio was founded by brothers Karthik and Guha Bala in 1990 while both were in high school.
In the late 1990s, Vicarious Visions appointed Michael Marvin, an Albany based investor and entrepreneur and founder and former CEO of MapInfo; and Charles S. Jones, investor, who sat on the boards of various software and industrial companies including Geac and PSDI, to its board of directors. Under their leadership, a sale of the company was negotiated to Activision, earning the original investors over 20x their initial investment.
In January 2005, Vicarious Visions was acquired by publisher Activision.
Game history
Terminus, an online multiplayer space trading and combat simulation game, won two Independent Games Festival Awards in 1999. They became known as a leading developer of handheld games breaking ground by the Tony Hawk's series, developing every Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS title in the franchise's main series as well as one spin off. They are also well known for many games including Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Ultimate Spider-Man, Crash Nitro Kart, Jedi Knight II, Jedi Academy, and Doom 3 for the Xbox. Vicarious Visions developed for the Guitar Hero series on the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms. For Guitar Hero: On Tour, Vicarious Visions created the "Guitar Grip" peripheral for the Nintendo DS, which emulates the guitar controller for the portable system.
It was revealed on June 10, 2011, that Vicarious Visions was working on the 3DS version of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.[1]
In 2011 it was announced that Vicarious Visions is working on three unknown projects.[2] According to a photo posted on facebook of Vicarious Visions, but it was already deleted, rumors suggest that one of these three unknown projects, maybe a new Crash Bandicoot game,[3] though this was later confirmed to be concept art from a previous Crash Bandicoot cancelled game, definitely showing that Activision abandoned the franchise.[4]
Games developed
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- ↑ Report: Job Losses At Vicarious Visions. Nintendo World Report
- ↑ Eddie Makuch: Vicarious Visions working on Wii U. Gamespot
- ↑ http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/crash-bandicoot-sports-new-look-at-vicarious-visions-16845
- ↑ http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/05/skylanders-swap-force-preview-and-interview-toy-story-3381219/