Volition (company)

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Volition (Volition Games, LLC; formerly Volition, Inc. and Deep Silver Volition, LLC) was an American video game developer based in Champaign, Illinois. It is best known for its Red Faction and Saints Row series. Mike Kulas founded the company in November 1996 when he and Matt Toschlog split up Parallax Software, the developer they had founded in June 1993. At Parallax Software, Kulas and Toschlog had developed Descent (1995) and Descent II (1996) for Interplay Entertainment, which Volition followed with Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War (1998) and FreeSpace 2 (1999), while Toschlog's Outrage Entertainment developed Descent 3 (1999). Volition's Descent 4 was canceled and reworked into Red Faction (2001). The game, as well as Summoner (2000), was published by THQ, which acquired the studio in August 2000. Following its 2004 move to downtown Champaign, Volition expanded rapidly from 80 employees to 175 by November 2006. With this increased headcount, the studio created the Saints Row series...

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