In January 2005, Vicarious Visions was acquired by publisher Activision.
Under their leadership, a sale of the company was negotiated to Activision, earning the original investors over 20x their initial investment. Jones, investor, who sat on the boards of various software and industrial companies including Geac and PSDI, to its board of directors. 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.
The studio was founded by brothers Karthik and Guha Bala in 1991 while they were in high school.
