Vigil Games
Moby ID: 11310
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Vigil Games was a game development studio based in Austin, Texas (USA). It was founded by comic artist Joe Madureira, David Adams, Marvin Donald and Ryan Stefanelli in 2005. The company was acquired by THQ Inc. in 2006.
Vigil's first release was the action hack-and-slash game Darksiders (2010). The sequel Darksiders II was released in 2012. The studio also contributed to Homefront (2011).
In December 2012 parent company THQ filed for Chapter 11. All of its studios and assets were up for sale, but Vigil was the only one that was not picked up and closed down when the auction ended on 22nd January 2013. Before its closure the studio had been working on Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium. Originally revealed in 2007, it was confirmed afterwards that development had been halted in March 2012. In a goodbye message on the website NeoGAF lead combat designer Ben Cureton revealed that the studio had been working on a project codenamed Crawler.
Following the closure, Atsushi Inaba, producer at Platinum Games, expressed an interest in acquiring the Darksiders franchise. On 28th January 2013 Crytek GmbH announced to open the new studio Crytek USA Corp., headed by Vigil co-founder David Adams and 35 Vigil developers, making it the spiritual continuation of Vigil, but without taking along the Darksiders franchise. When Crytek USA was downscaled at the end of July 2014 and its project HUNT: Horrors of the Gilded Age was moved to the Crytek Frankfurt studio, Adams quit and took along a core group of former Vigil Games developers to establish the independent studio Gunfire Games.
Credited on 6 Games from 2010 to 2016
Darksiders: Warmastered Edition (2016 on Windows, Wii U, PlayStation 4...) |
Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition (2015 on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One...) |
Darksiders II (2012 on Wii U) |
Darksiders II (2012 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
Homefront (2011 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3...) |
Darksiders (2010 on Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3...) |
History +
- 2006
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The company is acquired by THQ.
Trivia +
Address and contact information in 2009:
Vigil Games HQ
6011 West Courtyard Drive
Austin, TX 78730
United States
Phone: +1 512-329-9006
Secondary Phone: +1 818-871-5078
Related Web Sites +
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Vigil Games
official site
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 5 games with Valve Corporation
- 4 games with THQ Inc.
- 4 games with THQ Nordic GmbH
- 4 games with Nanjing Winking Entertainment Ltd.
- 3 games with FXVille, LLC
- 3 games with Babel Media Ltd.
- 3 games with HP Enterprise Services, LLP
- 3 games with PCB Productions
- 2 games with Computer Games Distribution, s.r.o.
- 2 games with Relic Entertainment Inc
- 5 games with Keith Arem
- 5 games with Marvin A. Donald
- 5 games with Paul DeMeo
- 5 games with Clark Crawford
- 5 games with Kay Gilmore
- 5 games with John Mueller
- 5 games with Jessica Suzanne Straus
- 5 games with Danny Bilson
- 5 games with Joe Olson
- 5 games with Mark Cook
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