By the time the sequel was completed, Toschlog had relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan, with some employees to operate a satellite studio for Parallax.

Volition found a new publisher in THQ, which acquired the studio in August 2000 and released the game shortly thereafter.

In the subsequent proceedings, Volition and the Saints Row intellectual property (IP) were sold to Koch Media (now Plaion) and became part of the company's Deep Silver label.

Volition reconnected with these IPs when Koch Media was acquired by Nordic Games' parent company (later known as Embracer Group) in February 2018.

[3] To reach a lower cost-of-living, Toschlog moved from Boston to Champaign, Illinois, where Kulas resided, and the two launched Parallax Software.

[3] Shortly thereafter, Apogee dropped the project after it had been in development for seven months, though leaving Parallax with an already funded, functional prototype.

[3] Subsequently, while the studio was slowly running out of money, they produced a demo reel of the game and set it as a VHS tape to various publishers.

[3] As Interplay's funds had also dried up, Parallax refused to ask them for more, not wanting to show signs of weakness.

[3] Interplay wished for the studio to develop a "CD-enhanced" version of the game, which would include high-resolution textures, cutscenes and Red Book-quality audio, as well as several new levels.

[3] During the development of Descent II, he and three designers moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to open a second office for Parallax.

[3] As he drew a connection between this definition and the act of software development, he chose "Volition" to be the new company name.

[3] The team were later provided with a development kit for the PlayStation 2, and were tasked with making Summoner a launch title for the console.

[11][12] Following a troubled development cycle, Summoner eventually hit the intended release date in October 2000, but shipped in a flawed state that resulted from the technical discrepancies between personal computers and PlayStation 2, between which the studio had to port the game.

[3] Following Red Faction, Volition developed Summoner 2, aiming at fixing all flaws made in the first game.

[3] The publisher suggested that they would create a game around Marvel Comics character Punisher, who had a movie coming up, which the studio agreed to.

[3] The development team had excursed to Marvel's film studios and were on set, talking to stage designers and witnessing some of the scenes being shot.

[3] At one point, Volition held a design exercise, inviting staff members to submit ideas for a new game.

[3] One such idea was a hybrid between a first-person shooter and a "gang simulator", a genre unexplored by most games at the time.

[3] Volition imposed several rules on the game, such as the exclusion of children and the inability to kill the police, so to not generate too much controversy.

[3] The team shifted away from developing in wide arrays of genres, instead focusing the entire studio's talent on one design principle: open world.

[3] Saints Row 2 differed from its predecessor in that it was more sandbox-oriented and more infused with humor, which the first game almost completely lacked.

[3] Kulas had wished to return to developing a game centered around destruction, either through Red Faction or through a new intellectual property, now that console hardware had been advanced enough to handle such gameplay.

[17] del Toro later revealed that Insane would become a trilogy, with total development time spanning one decade.

[19] In April 2011, it was announced that Kulas was retiring from the company, effective on May 2, with Cermak taking over his position as general manager.

[20][21] The new company went to develop a spiritual successor to Descent named Overload, which was funded through a crowdfunding campaign held on Kickstarter and released in May 2018.

[26] As the sale closed, Volition and the Saints Row IP were sold to Koch Media for a total of $22,312,925, and became part of its Deep Silver division.

[32] With the purchase of Koch Media by THQ Nordic (now Embracer Group) in February 2018, Volition and their IPs were reunited under one company;[33] responsibility for the Red Faction franchise would be moved directly into Deep Silver in May 2020.

[40] Jim Boone, who had been part of Parallax in 1994, succeeded Cermak as studio development director in October.

[21] According to Kulas, his time as an indie developer at Revival helped him "come up to speed on all kinds of stuff".

[45] In November 2022, after the Saints Row reboot was met with a mixed and "polarized" response from fans, Embracer announced that it would transfer Volition from Deep Silver to Gearbox (which it acquired in 2021) to leverage its resources and expertise.