Vicarious Visions is a video game developer. It was founded by Karthik and Guha Bala in the 1990s. Developers of Terminus, it won them an Independent Game Festival Award in 1999 and they became known as a leading developer of handheld games breaking ground by porting the Tony Hawk series to Game Boy Advance. They're also known for Crash Nitro Kart and successful ports of Jedi Knight II/III as well as Id software's Doom 3. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... Terminus is a space-flight role-playing/action computer game by Vicarious Visions. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written. ... Anthony Frank (Tony) Hawk (born May 12, 1968 in Carlsbad, CA) is widely regarded as the most famous skateboarder of all time, and is considered the pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding. ... The Game Boy Advance (often shortened to GBA) is a handheld video game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo. ... Crash Nitro Kart is a video game for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox consoles. ... Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (aka JK2) is a Star Wars computer game released in 2002. ... id Software is a computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ... Doom 3 is a sci-fi horror first-person shooter computer game developed by id Software and published by Activision. ...

In 2003, VV acquired the assets of failing middleware tools provider Intrinsic Graphics, folding the technology into its own production suite.

In January 2005, Vicarious Visions was acquired by publisher Activision. Activision, Inc. ...

External links

• Official site