David L. Adams

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David Adams
Born (1975-01-03) January 3, 1975 (age 44)
Occupation Game designer

David Lionel Adams (born January 3, 1975) is an American video game designer best known for his work on Darksiders and Warhammer 40k Online . [1]

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<i>Darksiders</i> Video game

Darksiders is a hack and slash action-adventure video game developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ. The game takes its inspiration from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with the player taking the role of the horseman War. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on January 5, 2010 in North America, January 7 in Australia, January 8 in Europe, and March 18 in Japan. The Microsoft Windows version was released in North America and Australia on September 23, and in Europe on September 24. A parallel sequel, Darksiders II, was released on August 14, 2012.

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Biography

In 1997 David Adams founded Stone Jackal Studios in Gilbert, Arizona and developed and released his first title Crush! Deluxe, via publisher MegaMedia Corp. Crush! was received as a popular niche game, and is considered a "Top Dog" by The Underdogs. [2] He left Stone Jackal Studios to co-found Realm Interactive to pursue the development of a new game based on the popular BBS door game Trade Wars . Named Trade Wars: Dark Millennium, Realm Interactive generated interest in the industry around the nostalgia of the old game. [3] NCSoft initially decided to publish Trade Wars, but later decided that since the game had changed significantly it should be renamed as Exarch. [4] [5]

Gilbert, Arizona Town in Arizona, United States

Gilbert is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, located southeast of Phoenix, within the Phoenix metropolitan area. Once known as the "Hay Shipping Capital of the World", It is the sixth-largest municipality in Arizona, and the fifth-largest in the Metropolitan Phoenix Area.

Trade Wars is a series of popular computer games dating back to the early days of personal computing. Inspired by Hunt the Wumpus, the board game Risk, and the original space trader game Star Trader, Trade Wars was the first multiplayer game of the space trader genre. During the height of its popularity in the early 1990s, Trade Wars was the preeminent BBS game, played by tens of thousands of users around the world.

NCSoft South Korea-based online, video and mobile game development company

NCSoft is a South Korean video game developer. The company has produced Lineage, City of Heroes, WildStar, Guild Wars, Aion, Blade & Soul, Exteel and Master X Master.

Later NCSoft decided to purchase Realm Interactive, and moved the then Mesa, Arizona based development studio to their offices in Austin, Texas.

Mesa, Arizona City in Arizona, United States

Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is a suburb located about 20 miles (32 km) east of Phoenix in the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by Tempe on the west, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler and Gilbert on the south along with Queen Creek, and Apache Junction on the east.

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In 2005 David Adams left NCSoft, to found Vigil Games with other former NCSoft employees, where they began work on Darksiders: Wrath of War . In March 2006, Vigil was acquired by THQ. [6] In 2007 [7] Games Workshop, selected THQ to develop their Massively Multiplayer Online version of their popular Warhammer 40k series dubbed Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online , THQ then gave Vigil Games the project to do the actual development.

Vigil Games

Vigil Games was an American game development company owned by THQ. It was formed by comic artist Joe Madureira and David L. Adams and based in Austin, Texas.

THQ video game publisher

THQ Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher based in Agoura Hills, California. Founded in April 1990 by Jack Friedman, the company developed products for home video game consoles and handhelds, personal computers and mobile devices.

Games Workshop company

Games Workshop Group PLC is a British miniature wargaming manufacturing company based in Nottingham, England. Games Workshop is best known as developer and publisher of the tabletop wargames Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40,000,The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game and The Hobbit Strategy Battle Game. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

As a part of THQ's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Vigil was closed on January 23, 2013. Just days later, Adams became CEO of a new Austin-based branch of Crytek, known as Crytek USA. The studio hired many of Vigil's former employees as well, based purely off their work under his leadership. [8] After the re-construction of Crytek, He left Crytek and formed a new independent studio called Gunfire Games.

Crytek German video game development company

Crytek GmbH is a German video game developer and software developer based in Frankfurt. Founded by the Yerli brothers in Coburg in September 1999 and moved to Frankfurt in 2006, Crytek also operates further studios in Kiev and Istanbul. Its former studios included Crytek Black Sea in Sofia, Crytek UK in Nottingham, and Crytek USA in Austin, Texas. The company is best known for developing the first instalment of the Far Cry series and the Crysis series, the open world nature of their games which showcase the company's CryEngine, and for pushing the limits on PC specifications to achieve advanced graphics and gameplay.

Crytek USA Corp. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas, and a subsidiary of Crytek. The studio was led by David L. Adams, who was formerly the CEO of Vigil Games; a studio that had been acquired by THQ, but was shut down as part of THQ's Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 23, 2013. Adams was personally courted by Crytek's founder Cevat Yerli due to Vigil's work on the Darksiders series, and the trust and leadership of his studio's former staff—many of whom had also joined him at the studio.

Gunfire Games is an American video game development studio founded by David L. Adams in 2014 consisting former employees from Vigil Games and its successor, Crytek USA.

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<i>Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning</i> video game

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<i>Darksiders II</i> 2012 computer and video game

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  8. ↑ Grubb, J (2013) How Crytek hired the ex-Vigil team (and formed a new studio) based on one meeting | GamesBeat | Games | by Jeff Grubb. https://venturebeat.com/2013/02/04/how-crytek-ceo-cevat-yerli-decided-to-hire-the-ex-vigil-team-based-on-a-single-meeting/
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