Ben Cureton, Lead Combat Designer at Vigil Games, posted on NeoGAF about his experiences at the Darksiders developer after it was announced the studio did not find a buyer at the THQ auction. There, he confirmed a new project the developer was working on (codenamed: Crawler), though it may never see the light of day.
“Did I like coming to work Yes. Was I proud of the work that I did Yes. More importantly, was I proud of the work that WE did Absolutely. I knew, without a shadow of the doubt, that the project we were working on was going to blow people away,” posted Cureton. “In fact, it DID blow people away. We did, in TWO months, what many companies haven’t done in a year. The pride of knowing that no one was doing anything like us was so satisfying, it kept us coming to work and giving 100 percent every single day, even through the dark times.”
Platinum Games executive director Atsushi Inaba did tweet, “In THQ studio and IP selling off auction, Darksiders is unsold [We] wanna buy it . . . on the cheap” according to Kotaku. However, such acquisition would likely not involve Vigil itself, putting the developer in the exact same position it is in right now.
