TROY, N.Y. â After a successful mid-pandemic shift to an all-remote format last year, GameFest â the digital-gaming festival organized by the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute â will again be held completely virtually this year.
GameFest 2021 will take place on Sansar, a multiuser online virtual platform, beginning at 1:30 p.m. on May 8. It will also stream live on YouTube beginning at 2 p.m. A full schedule is available on the GameFest 2021 website, https://gamefest.rpi.edu/. The event is free and open to the public.
Calm before the Blizzard: Vicarious Visions studio head looks forward to ‘bright future’ after merger | The Daily Gazette
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Colonie Simon Ebejer and his team at Vicarious Visions have always admired the community surrounding Blizzard Entertainment and its games.
As an estimated $72 billion game developer, Blizzard is responsible for multi-million dollar franchises like World Of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft and Overwatch, and has built up an international reputation of creating expansive multiplayer experiences over the years. But now, another major player is grabbing a controller to join Blizzard’s team: Colonie-based Vicarious Visions.
“The future that we have at Blizzard is so bright,” Ebejer said. “And I’m just stoked, frankly, to be part of this next chapter of Vicarious Visions’ story and I’m humbled and honored to have the opportunity to be the studio head of the company during this time. I’m just super excited.”
Vicarious Visions merged into Blizzard, basically stripped of creative freedom
No more Crash Bandicoot or Tony Hawk from those guys
Developer Vicarious Visions, which is owned by Activision Blizzard, has been merged into Blizzard, per a report from GamesIndustry.biz. From this point forward, the approximately 200 people in Vicarious Visions will be Blizzard employees “fully dedicated to existing Blizzard games and initiatives.” In other words, Vicarious Visions is finished leading game development projects like
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy or the
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 remake. It will just be supporting Blizzard on its own franchises now, which would include the likes of
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