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Vicarious Visions, the developer of the recent Tony Hawk remakes, will now be exclusively working on titles for Blizzard moving forward.

Vicarious Visions has been collaborating with Blizzard—the developer behind the World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch game series—for some time, and according to a statement shared with...

Vicarious Visions is an Activision studio that has worked on a wide range of projects. Most recently, the team developed the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake. Activision announced today that Vicarious Visions is being merged into Blizzard Entertainment. This means the team will now work on Blizzard games and will no longer be a lead developer. Update, January 22 (7:05 ET): Bloomberg reports that Blizzard quietly dissolved Team 1 that worked on classic games, while Vicarious Visions is developing a Diablo 2 remake. Vicarious Visions has worked with Activision for decades, being in acquired ...

The publisher today told GamesIndustry.biz that effective today, it is merging Vicarious Visions into Blizzard Entertainment. Going forward, the Vicarious Visions team of about 200 people will be employees of Blizzard and "fully dedicated to existing Blizzard games and initiatives," which means the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 studio will no longer be creating games as the lead developer. "After collaborating with Vicarious Visions for some time and developing a great relationship, Blizzard realized there was an opportunity for [Vicarious Visions] to provide long-term support," a representativ...

Tony Hawk devs merge with World of Warcraft devs The studios which made World of Warcraft and the modern Tony Hawk and Crash Bandicoot remakes are now one and the same. Activision has announced that it is merging Vicarious Visions into Blizzard Entertainment, where it will support “existing Blizzard games and initiatives”, and no longer develop games on its own. “After collaborating with Vicarious Visions for some time and developing a great relationship,” an Activision rep tells GamesIndustry.biz, “Blizzard realized there was an opportunity for [Vicarious Visions] to provide long-t...