Vigil Games is no more, the team says goodbye

El33tonline writes:

"By now you’ll know that THQ was yesterday dissolved while its studios and intellectual properties were sold to various publishers. There were, however, some studios that weren’t bought in the auction.

Vigil Games is one of these studios."

[majiebeast]

I bought both Darksiders 1 and Darksiders 2(Death edition) for pc. They could have done a better job of the pc port of DS2 it was incredibly bad. Hope they land on their feet.

[OliverKO]

That's unfortunate, Darksiders 2 was fantastic on consoles ;(

Definitely, it would be great to see the whole of Vigil put back together again, or at the very least have someone pick up the Darksiders license and hire the leads.

[Numphie]

It would be great to see the Darksiders franchise picked up, but I really do hope that the development team from Vigil Games is given the opportunity to continue their work on the series.

[PS4isKing_82]

I'm sure Nintendo and platinum would love to have them.
Darksiders always felt like a mature darker, grittier version of zelda to me.

[OliverKO]

That's a very interesting proposition... that would be a great fit, I think!

[PS4isKing_82]

Exactly. Just imagine darksiders 3 as a wiiU exclusive if Nintendo snatched them up next like they did with bayonetta.

[Numphie]

Definitely a great fit.

[animegamingnerd]

nintendo please do what you did with bayonetta 2

[Bimkoblerutso]

Maybe the members will reform under another name and could eventually be picked up by Nintendo, but Vigil, in it's original form, effectively dissolved when they were not "acquired" during THQ's auction.

[BanBrother]

Sad. Loved Darksiders franchise. Hopefully someone picks it up, as long as it remains multi-plat. Wonder why even so called 'hardcore' gamers never picked this up. Guess too many people just want to blow heads off in a FPS year after year.

[Hanso]

PG is interested in Darksiders

[OliverKO]

It would make sense, too - Vigil had a great admiration for Platinum's combat mechanics in Bayonetta and Vanquish. Image Darksiders was as tight as Platinum's games?

A little bit of drool just escaped...

[animegamingnerd]

come on PG your our only hope

[MiloGarret]

Huh. I would have figured that they'd be one of the first to be picked up. Weird.

[Ck1x]

Actually if Nintendo did pick this franchise up, it would be the perfect series to bestow on Retro Studios, since everyone is dying for them to make a Zelda game. This could be the closest thing we ever see to them actually making one anytime soon!

[OliverKO]

I'm liking this idea more and more - get the leads and talent from Vigil and let Retro work on it... Dreams hopefully can still come true... ;)

[Styxoric]

That is one hugely talented studio, i hate to see this happen to them..

[animegamingnerd]

still am trying to figure out why someone would buy the rights to homefront over darksiders

[NYC_Gamer]

Crytek bought Homefront because they were already working on the sequel..

[Numphie]

That, and they got it at a good bargain price I think.

[Garrison]

Homefront, even thou it's an fps was quite an original title and awesome game that just needed more time and content to be more compelling. The darksiders franchise while being great games are just generic god of war/devil may cry clones.

[Themba76]

another studio dies because of COD this has got to end or all we will have soon is Activision.

I got friends online that play nothin but COD for the last 6 years that franchise is not even that good. it's kinda stale now actually.

[NYC_Gamer]

What does this have to do with COD?THQ ruined themselves by wasting funds on bad investments...

[ab5olut10n]

^thank you

[abzdine]

the past 6 years i've been playing everything else than COD.

[kesvalk]

although as a gamer i am sad that i will prolly not see the end of the darksiders franchise in the near future, my whises go to all these ppl that lost their job and that they find new places to work again very soon.

[BananaEatingSquid]

Wow, this is incredibly sad. Hopefully everyone who lost their job will find new ones quickly.