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Darksiders Creative Director Joe Madureira Leaving Vigil Games

Details on Madureira's "next big thing" to be revealed in the months ahead.

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Darksiders 2 downloadable content continues to roll out, but series creative director Joe Madureira is leaving Vigil Games, the renowned comic artist announced on Facebook today.

“I'm afraid the time has come for me to move on to new adventures,” he said. “I could not be more proud of what we achieved, or the awesome people who helped build up this studio. I can safely say Vigil's future is in very good hands, so expect only awesomeness down the road. This feels surreal...I miss the place already.”

Madureira teased news about “the next big thing” in the “coming months,” but it’s unclear if it will again involve video games.

Just a few days back, the official Twitter account for Darksiders teased this image with the tagline: “A new adventure awaits Death!”

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Madureira had been with Vigil Games since its inception, racking up seven years with the company.

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Edited By mktacuara

Oh no..... now who's gonna do nothing at Vigil. No seriously.... I know a bunch of artists at Vigil he was basically never there it wont affect the studio at all. Wish him the best.

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Bummer...the thing that got me really hooked with Darksiders was the art style. Such a shame.

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NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This bodes ill for Darksiders, but to be fair, I never saw the series having particularly long legs anyway. The other 2 "horsemen" sucked compared to War and Death.

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@Slay3r1583: Legit lol. I forgot Batle Chasers was even a thing that existed.

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If DS3 gets made and is more like DS1, then I'm in. More of DS2 and I really don't care.

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Jeez, what's with everybody leaving game studios? CliffyB, The Dr.'s from Bioware, now Joe Madureira. If Todd Howard leaves Bethesda, I'm quitting gaming.

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Wow this extremely saddening. Darksiders II was a fantastic game and quite an improvement over the first in some regards. Best of luck to you Joe!

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Man, that sucks; Darksiders 2 was great and I would've love to see this guy complete the saga. Best of luck to you Joe, in whatever you do!

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Maybe he'll just go back to doing cover art for PSM. His Soul Reaver cover is still one of my favorite 90's magazine covers of all time, just for how Image Comics the whole thing was.

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@believer258 said:

When founding members leave so soon, it doesn't look good. I hope they don't go the way of... wait, I've already forgotten who made Kingdoms of Amalur.

Haha damn so did I.

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Please not Greg Land. Please not Greg Land.

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Man, I wonder if that means we'll ever see Darksiders III.

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Hmm. I, like the rest of you, wonder what this means for the Darksiders series. Maybe if they do another, he can do some freelance work on it or something.

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@I_Stay_Puft said:

Please not Greg Land. Please not Greg Land.

What's wrong with Greg Land?

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Quit screwing around and finish Battlechasers!

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Madureira teased news about “the next big thing” in the “coming months,” but it’s unclear if it will again involve video games.

If games are not involved, I don't care about whatever that is. Sorry.

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The next big thing is shoulder pads, right?

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@Joeybagad0nutz said:

@I_Stay_Puft said:

Please not Greg Land. Please not Greg Land.

What's wrong with Greg Land?

His super power is tracing.

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I really hope we get a Darksiders 3.

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I guess I'm done with the Darksiders franchise now.

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@algertman said:

@Joeybagad0nutz said:

@I_Stay_Puft said:

Please not Greg Land. Please not Greg Land.

What's wrong with Greg Land?

His super power is tracing.

Oh that Greg land. My bad. I thought we were talking about a greg land in the gaming industry. Not comic book.

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Edited By GERALTITUDE

Well, as someone who never liked Joe Mad's style, this could be good news. Maybe D3 will appeal to me.