Type Private Area served Worldwide Founder Bas van Berkestijn | Industry Video game industry Headquarters Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
Formerly called Woedend! Games (2005–07)
W!Games (2007–10)
Vanguard Entertainment Group (2010–16) Key people Arthur Houtman (CEO)
Maarten Elshove (CFO)
Martin de Ronde (CCO) Products My Horse & Me
Greed Corp
Gatling Gears
Halo: Spartan Assault
Halo: Spartan Strike Founded 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands Video games Halo: Spartan Assault, Halo: Spartan Strike, Gatling Gears, Greed Corp, My Horse & Me Profiles | ||
Force Field VR (formerly Woedend! Games, W!Games, and Vanguard Entertainment Group, which traded as Vanguard Games), doing business as Force Field, is a Dutch video game developer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded by Bas van Berkestijn in February 2005 as Woedend! Games, a division of Dutch media company Woedend! Communicatiedingen. In 2007, the company was renamed W!Games, and would developed My Horse & Me and Greed Corp.
On 15 September 2010, the company merged with Karami, a game developer founded by Arthur Houtman and Martin de Ronde (founders of Guerrilla Games) in 2010, and became Vanguard Entertainment Group, trading as Vanguard Games. The new company went to develop Greed Corp successor Gatling Gears, mobile game Base Busters, and Halo spin-offs Halo: Spartan Assault and Halo: Spartan Strike.
On 14 April 2016, Vanguard Games merged with Force Field, a virtual reality game developer founded by Maarten Elshove and Michiel Mol in 2016, to become Force Field VR (trading as Force Field), a developer specializing in virtual reality and augmented reality experiences. The company is currently developing Landfall for Oculus Rift head-mounted displays.