Sigil Games Online: History and Key Facts

Sigil Games Online, Inc. was a video game developer based in Carlsbad, California that was founded in January 2002 by Brad McQuaid and Jeff Butler. The two had been key members of the development team that created EverQuest, the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game until World of Warcraft. McQuaid and Butler left Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), the publisher of EverQuest, and formed Sigil Games Online with the goal of developing "the next big thing". In 2003 McQuaid told IGN that he was "much happier" than he had been at SOE, where he felt "spread thin", now that he was working with "an all-star team" and "focusing on making one ground-breaking, unprecedented project". Following several delays and a change of publisher from Microsoft to SOE, Sigil released their only game, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, on January 30, 2007. In May 2007, SOE acquired key assets of Sigil Games Online and became the game's owner.

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