Vicarious Visions, Inc. was an American video game developer founded in Albany, New York. The studio was obtained by Activision in January 2005 as a subsidiary to Activision, and was later moved by Activision Blizzard from a subsidiary of Activision to a subsidiary of Blizzard Entertainment on January 22, 2021.[1] The acquired company was then merged into Blizzard in April 2022, becoming Blizzard Albany.
When they were Vicarious Visions, the former company was commonly known for developing handheld games and porting console games to handheld platforms and Nintendo consoles but the company has made quality titles on various home consoles as well.
Guitar Hero games developed by Vicarious Visions[]
- For a full list of games developed by Vicarious Visions, see: Vicarious Visions § Games developed on Wikipedia
Vicarious Visions has developed several Guitar Hero games for portable devices, most notably the On Tour series for Nintendo DS. They have also developed Wii ports of the main Guitar Hero games.
- Guitar Hero: On Tour (2008) - Nintendo DS
- Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades (2008) - Nintendo DS
- Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits (2009) - Nintendo DS
- Band Hero (2009) - Nintendo DS
- Guitar Hero (iOS) (2010) - iOS
DJ Hero 3D(cancelled 2010) - Nintendo 3DSGuitar Hero 7(cancelled 2011)[2] - PlayStation 3, Xbox 360[3]
Guitar Hero games ported by Vicarious Visions[]
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (2007) - Wii
- Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (2007) - Wii
- Guitar Hero World Tour (2008) - Wii
- Guitar Hero 5 (2009) - Wii
- Band Hero (2009) - Wii
- Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (2010) - Wii
External links[]
- Blizzard Albany's official website - https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/albany?
- Vicarious Visions' former URL - https://www.vvisions.com (redirects to the above)
Trivia[]
- One of the employees of Vicarious Visions, Anton Struyk, was the developer of the Guitar Hero-inspired game Freetar (also known as Freetar Game and formerly Freetar Hero) and its Freetar Editor note chart-editing program.[4] Struyk discontinued Freetar and its song editing program after acquiring a job there. He was involved in the development of Guitar Hero: On Tour for Nintendo DS released in 2008 and was a UI designer for the cancelled Guitar Hero 7 video game.[3]
References[]
- ↑ GamesIndustry.biz — Vicarious Visions Merged into Blizzard, article posted by Brendan Sinclair on January 22, 2021.
- ↑ Guitar Hero 7 Was Going To Have Six-String Guitars, No Drums, No Singing. Was Cancelled In 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Professional Work blog on Anton Struyk's House Of Blog
- ↑ "January 28, 2007 - Ch-ch-ch-changes" blog post on the Freetar website (archived)
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