thq industry computer and video games founded 2005 founder joe madureira and david l. adams defunct january 23 2013 headquarters austin texas key people david adams general manager owner thq website official website vigil games was an austin texas based game development company owned by thq . it was formed by comic artist joe madureira and david l. adams . history edit vigil games was founded in 2005 by joe madureira david adams marvin donald and ryan stefanelli . vigil games became a part of the thq family in 2006 and was located in austin texas . vigil games was housed in four points centre where thq leased 33 000 square feet . although much of thq s assets were sold in an auction as part of bankruptcy hearings vigil itself received no bids . in a letter written by thq s ceo brian farrell it was stated that vigil would remain part of the chapter 11 case and that thq would still try to find a suitable buyer for the properties not sold in the auction but that there would be immediate job losses in the affected entities . 1 at the time of bankruptcy vigil was developing warhammer 40 000 dark millennium . in a posting on twitter platinumgames producer atsushi inaba expressed interest in acquiring the darksiders franchise from thq . 2 in the end nordic games acquired the darksiders franchise along with the red faction and mx vs. atv franchises . 3 while crytek planned to bid for vigil due to its past work owner cevat yerli ultimately decided not to because he felt that their current projects would not fit with the company s strategy . however following vigil s closure crytek would establish a new u.s. subsidiary known crytek usa led by david adams and employing many of its former staff . 4 other former vigil employees have gone to work for retro studios 5 battlecry studios certain affinity and many others . many of the staff also joined gunfire games a company set up in 2014 by the studio s founder david l. adams and airship syndicate formed by co founder joe madureira in 2015 . 6 games developed edit year title platform s ps3 wii u win x360 onlive 2010 darksiders yes no yes yes yes 2012 darksiders ii yes yes yes yes yes references edit thq dissolved saints row company of heroes darksiders devs acquired . ign . retrieved 23 january 2013 . platinum games boss expresses interest in buying darksiders on twitter . polygon . retrieved 24 january 2013 . darksiders red faction mx vs atv purchased by nordic games . retrieved april 23 2013 . how crytek hired the ex vigil team and formed a new studio based on one meeting . venturebeat . retrieved 3 april 2013 . http gonintendo.com mode viewstory & id 195054 andrew reiner 2015 02 22 . former darksiders developers form airship syndicate . game informer . retrieved 2015 02 23 . v t e thq inc. licensee of games workshop nickelodeon wwe former franchises company of heroes darksiders de blob destroy all humans drawn to life homefront juiced metro 2033 mx vs. atv red faction saints row warhammer 40 000 dawn of war former subsidiaries big huge games blue tongue entertainment heavy iron studios helixe incinerator studios kaos studios locomotive games outrage entertainment paradigm entertainment relic entertainment thq digital studios uk thq studio australia thq digital phoenix universomo volition inc. vigil games v t e darksiders video games darksiders darksiders ii related articles joe madureira vigil games this united states video game corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this thq related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vigil games & oldid 738603173 categories thqvideo game development companiescompanies based in austin texasvideo game companies of the united statesdefunct video game companiescompanies disestablished in 2013companies established in 2005united states video game company stubsthq stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olfran aispolskiportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 23 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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