Virtuos


Virtuos Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a Singaporean video game developer and a provider of digital entertainment production services for the game and movie industries, founded in 2004. has its headquarter and R&D center in Singapore as well as seven development centers located in Shanghai, Chengdu, Xi'an, Ho Chi Minh City, Paris and in Dublin. Virtuos has offices also in Vancouver, San Francisco, Tokyo and Seoul.
With over 1,500 full-time professionals, Virtuos specializes in game development and AAA art production for consoles, mobile and VR titles. As a video game developer, Virtuos creates both parts of games as well as full game “co-development”, which includes porting and adaptations. Virtuos is a licensed developer on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Virtuos' clients include 18 of the top 20 digital entertainment publishers. Its clients include Activision, Electronic Arts, LucasArts, Microsoft, Sony, Square Enix, Ubisoft and Zynga.
In September 2011, Virtuos acquired Sparx Animation Studios and added a Saigon development center dedicated to 3D animation, digital production for film and TV and game cinematics.
In March 2018, Virtuos has announced the successful completion of a USD 15 million funding round, plus the set-up of a new headquarters and R&D center in Singapore.

Games co-developed by Virtuos

History of Virtuos

As a prominent game outsourcing company, Virtuos has occasionally found itself at the center of the debate about outsourcing’s impact on game-industry jobs in the west.
When asked about the issue by gaming industry website Gamasutra in 2006, Gilles Langourieux, the CEO of Virtuos pointed to the extra number of man-months required to produce titles on new-gen platforms and the larger number of platforms to cover as the main reasons for the rise of outsourced production, stating that he "doesn't think it's a disservice to the industry in the West."