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Vicarious Visions, Inc. was an American video game developer and is a division of Blizzard Entertainment known as Blizzard Albany, based in Albany, New York. Founded in 1991, the studio was acquired by Activision in January 2005.
Apr 12, 2022 · The merger isn't a surprise: Activision turned Vicarious Visions into a full-time Blizzard support studio in early 2021, after the release of the outstanding Tony Hawk 1 + 2, and reports...
- Andy Chalk
- Overview
- Partnership With Bungie
- Helsom Memorial
- References
(VV), now known as Blizzard Albany, is an American video game developer based in Albany, New York. The company ported Destiny 2 to PC and helped create the following Destiny 2 releases: Curse of Osiris, Warmind, Season of the Forge, and Season of Opulence.
On December 8, 2016, Vicarious Visions announced that they were partnering with Bungie through Activision to work on the Destiny franchise.
In May 2017, it was confirmed that VV was working on Destiny 2's PC port. A month later, it was announced that the PC port was being delayed and would launch 46 days after the console version.
Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg said in a June 2017 interview about Destiny 2 and other games. In it, he explained that Activision wasn't satisfied with Destiny's content droughts, which is why they were bringing Vicarious Visions and High Moon Studios in to help Bungie create Destiny 2 content.
In addition to working on Destiny 2's PC port, VV also helped Bungie develop the Curse of Osiris expansion. Bungie announced in April 2018 that Vicarious Visions had helped Bungie create Destiny 2's newest expansion, Warmind, and in the creation of the Rasputin ARG.
In September 2020, Bungie announced that they had created a tribute in Destiny 2 to honor a Vicarious Visions employe who had passed away in 2019, Matt Holsom:
On September 22, Destiny 2 players logged in to find a new message from Ana Bray, asking them to investigate a signal on Mars at a Golden Age Research Station that just came online. Players made their way to the Mindlab area, and about halfway there, discovered an open office door. Inside was a work station with a glass of water, a sticky note that said “Hot Dog!,” a sticker that indicated "no snakes," a red keyboard, and a datapad that had "MH" displayed on it. Upon investigating the datapad, players were asked to visit Ana, who shared information about Helsom through in-game lore:
"I can't believe you found this," Ana says. "It's Helsom's journal."
"Helsom was a xenoarchaeologist during the Golden Age. He believed there were instances of contact between extrasolar species and humanity, long before the Traveler."
"By all accounts, Helsom was a cigar smoking, whiskey-drinking explorer who hated flying. He'd refused to use jumpships for planetary exploration. Would just hop in a rover and drive halfway across Mars to do his research."
"In spite of all that, every log entry I've ever heard made it sound like he was the happiest guy in the room. His laugh was just…"
SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula is a 2001 platform action video game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by THQ for the Game Boy Color handheld game console. It is the first video game to be based on SpongeBob SquarePants.
Diablo II: Resurrected ' s development began around 2019, as a joint effort between Blizzard's Diablo team (Team 3) and Vicarious Visions, at the time a subsidiary under Blizzard's corporate sibling Activision.
Oct 27, 2021 · Vicarious Visions to drop its name and fully merge with Blizzard, sources say. The merger was announced earlier in 2021, but workers were told Wednesday about the name change
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Apr 12, 2022 · The merger of Vicarious Visions with Blizzard comes as Activision Blizzard is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $68.7 billion. In other news, Activision Blizzard just announced...
