David Adams is an American video game designer best known for his work on ''

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'' and '' Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium''. In 2014, Adams founded Gunfire Games

Biography

David Adams co-founded Realm Interactive to create ''Trade Wars: Dark Millennium'', a sequel of the classic BBS game Trade Wars 2002. Realm Interactive generated interest in the industry around the nostalgia of the old game. NCSoft initially decided to publish ''Trade Wars'', but later decided that since the game had changed significantly it should be renamed as ''Exarch''. In 2005, Adams founded Vigil Games with

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. In 2006, Vigil Games was acquired by

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. As a part of THQ's

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, 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 Crytek USA Corp. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas, and a subsidiary of Crytek. The studio was led by David Adams (video game designer), David Adams, who was formerly the CEO of Vigil Games; a studio that had been acqu ...

. The studio hired many of Vigil Games' former employees, based purely off their work under his leadership. Adams later left Crytek.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, David 1975 births Living people American video game designers Place of birth missing (living people)