{"id":123829,"date":"2022-04-12T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-130109"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:20:00","slug":"vicarious-visions-is-seemingly-no-more-after-it-merges-with-blizzard-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/12\/vicarious-visions-is-seemingly-no-more-after-it-merges-with-blizzard-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicarious Visions Is Seemingly No More After It Merges With Blizzard Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a61a18fdcbbe5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a61a18fdcbbe5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Tony Hawk\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a61a18fdcbbe5\/tony-hawk.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a61a18fdcbbe5\/tony-hawk.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Tony Hawk\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Activision\/Blizzard<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vicarious Visions, known for its work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/crash_bandicoot_n_sane_trilogy\">Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/tony_hawks_pro_skater_1_plus_2\">Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 1+2<\/a>, will merge with Blizzard Entertainment and work solely on Blizzard games moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard Entertainment is known for franchises such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/diablo_prime_evil_collection\">Diablo<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>World of Warcraft<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_legendary_edition\">Overwatch<\/a>, and <strong>Hearthstone<\/strong>. It&#8217;s unknown at this time exactly which of these the old Vicarious Visions team will work on, but it&#8217;s likely it will be utilised across the entire Blizzard catalogue.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;ve officially merged with Blizzard Entertainment. Our development team will remain in Albany, NY and fully dedicated to Blizzard games. We invite you to follow us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blizzard_Ent?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Blizzard_Ent<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Vicarious Visions (@VvisionsStudio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VvisionsStudio\/status\/1513875152920100867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This move effectively means that Vicarious Visions is no more. The brand will be defunct going forwards, and we can&#8217;t expect the team to work on franchises like <strong>Spryo the Dragon<\/strong>, <strong>Crash Bandicoot<\/strong>, or <strong>Tony Hawk<\/strong>. Whether this move will remain in place once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/01\/microsoft-buys-activision-blizzard-now-owns-call-of-duty-and-crash-bandicoot\">Activision\/Blizzard&#8217;s sale to Microsoft is finalised<\/a> remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of the apparent &#8220;death&#8221; of Vicarious Visions? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Activision\/Blizzard Vicarious Visions, known for its work on Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 1+2, will merge with Blizzard Entertainment and work solely on Blizzard games moving forward. Blizzard Entertainment is known for franchises such as Diablo, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone. It&#8217;s unknown at this time exactly which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}