In January 2021, Vicarious Visions became part of Activision's sister company Blizzard Entertainment and was merged into it in April 2022.

[1] In the late 1990s, Vicarious Visions appointed Michael Marvin, an Albany-based investor and entrepreneur, and founder and former CEO of MapInfo Corporation; and Charles S. Jones, investor, who sat on the boards of various software and industrial companies including Geac and PSDI, to its board of directors.

Under their leadership, a sale of the company was negotiated to Activision, earning the original investors over 20x their initial investment.

It follows Raven Software, another Activision Blizzard subsidiary, whose QA team voted to unionize earlier in the year.

They became known as a leading developer of handheld games breaking ground by the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, developing Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS titles in the franchise's main series as well as one spin off.

Vicarious Visions developed for the Guitar Hero series on the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms.