games interactive entertainment founded march 1998 headquarters marin county california website official website nstigate games formerly nihilistic software is an american video game developer based in novato california . contents 1 history 2 games 3 references 4 external links history edit nihilistic was founded in march 1998 by ray gresko robert huebner and steve tietze . gresko and huebner had formerly worked at lucasarts and tietze had worked at rogue entertainment . many of nihilistic s employees were drawn from lucasarts working on games such as jedi knight . the first game produced by nihilistic was vampire the masquerade redemption set in the a role playing world created by white wolf . released in 2000 vampire the masquerade redemption was published by activision for microsoft windows and apple macintosh computers . for their next project nihilistic began to develop starcraft ghost supervised by starcraft creator blizzard entertainment . in mid 2004 nihilistic ceased working on starcraft ghost although the circumstances behind this are not entirely clear . the project was taken up by swingin ape studios which was later bought by blizzard . finally in march 2006 blizzard entertainment announced that starcraft ghost was placed on indefinite hold . meanwhile in 2005 nihilistic completed development on marvel nemesis rise of the imperfects a fighting game based on marvel comics various superheroes . marvel nemesis rise of the imperfects was published by electronic arts for the playstation 2 xbox and nintendo gamecube . nihilistic released their first next gen title conan for both the playstation 3 and xbox 360 game consoles . according to a preview article in the march 2007 issue of game informer conan is an action adventure game based on robert e. howard s famous sword and sorcery hero conan the barbarian . this title was released by the publisher thq on october 23 2007 . in the fall of 2009 konami publishes nihilistic software s first downloadable game zombie apocalypse on xbox live for the xbox 360 and on the playstation network for the playstation 3 . zombie apocalypse is multiplayer arcade style dual stick shooter with zombies as the opponent . they developed playstation move heroes for the playstation 3 for the playstation move which was released in march 2011 . 1 on may 29 2012 nihilistic released resistance burning skies for the playstation vita . 2 on october 17 2012 nihilistic reorganized their business to focus on mobile gaming changing their name to nstigate . 3 on november 13 2012 nstigate released call of duty black ops declassified for the vita . 4 the game was widely panned critically for poor design and crippling technical problems . games edit game title release platform metacritic notes vampire the masquerade redemption 2000 microsoft windows apple macintosh 74 100 marvel nemesis rise of the imperfects 2005 playstation 2 xbox nintendo gamecube 53 100 ps2 58 100 xbox 54 100 gamecube conan 2007 playstation 3 xbox 360 69 100 zombie apocalypse 2009 playstation network xbox live 61 100 psn 66 100 xbla playstation move heroes 2011 playstation move playstation 3 53 100 resistance burning skies 2012 playstation vita 60 100 call of duty black ops declassified 2012 playstation vita 33 100 references edit sony computer entertainment staff . heroes on the move games & media . playstation.com . sony computer entertainment . retrieved 16 june 2010 . james ransom wiley . resistance ngp being developed by nihilistic isn t a port . joystiq . aol inc. retrieved 27 january 2011 . call of duty black ops declassified developer nihilistic reorganizing to focus on online and mobile games . polygon . vox media inc. retrieved 15 november 2012 . moriarty colin . call of duty s vita developer has been revealed . ign . external links edit official website this united states video game corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php 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