Vicarious Visions is set to be fully merged into Blizzard, with parent company Activision Blizzard dropping the company’s name entirely.Sources told Polygon that employees at Vicarious Visions were informed on Wednesday (October 27) that the studio would lose its name.
The move is said to be part of the ongoing repositioning of the developer within the larger business, which has seen the studio entrenched as a support team for Blizzard projects including Diablo II: Resurrected.Founded in 1991 by brothers Karthik Bala and Guha Bala, Vicarious Visions became well known for its work on handheld ports of console games, including bringing the 2000 Spider-Man to Game Boy Color and early entries in Neversoft’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series to Game.
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