David Adams (video game designer)

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David Adams
Adams in 2015
Born	(1975-01-03) January 3, 1975 (age 46)
Occupation	Video game designer

David Adams (born January 3, 1975)^{[citation needed]} is an American video game designer best known for his work on Darksiders and Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium.

Biography[]

In 1997, Adams founded Stone Jackal Studios in Gilbert, Arizona, and developed his first game, Crush! Deluxe, via publisher MegaMedia Corp.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} Named Trade Wars: Dark Millennium, Realm Interactive generated interest in the industry around the nostalgia of the old game.^[1] NCSoft initially decided to publish Trade Wars, but later decided that since the game had changed significantly it should be renamed as Exarch.^[2] NCSoft later purchased Realm Interactive and moved its team from Mesa, Arizona, to their offices in Austin, Texas.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, 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 Games was acquired by THQ.^{[citation needed]} As a part of THQ's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Vigil Games was closed on January 23, 2013. Just days later, Adams became the CEO of a new Austin-based branch of Crytek, known as Crytek USA. The studio hired many of Vigil Games' former employees, based purely off their work under his leadership.^[3] Adams left Crytek USA 18 months thereafter to found an independent studio, Gunfire Games.^{[citation needed]}

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