Vicarious Visions Fully Absorbed By Blizzard, Will Get A New Name

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Vicarious Visions is not any extra. The developer behind Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 1 and a couple of that additionally labored on the current Diablo 2: Resurrected for Blizzard has now been totally absorbed by Blizzard and can not stick with it with its earlier identify.

The merger was introduced in January however phrase of the identify drop was solely introduced to shocked workers on Wednesday, in what one described as a “mild and fast” assembly. The studio will obtain a brand new identify, which Polygon assumes will merely be one thing like “Blizzard Albany.” The main target of the studio might be to shift to “long-term help” of Blizzard’s titles.

In different Blizzard-related name-change information, the cowboy hero from Overwatch has formally acquired his identify change in-game. “Jesse McCree” is now “Cole Cassidy” in all textual content and visible results, a change that was announced late last week and went into impact on Tuesday.

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