Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven, 1998.Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty, 1997.Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars, 1996.Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest, 1995.Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb, 1994.Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen, 1993.Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen, 1992.Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan, 1990.The first Might and Magic games is number 44 in Computer Gaming World's Hall of Fame, and the Heroes of Might and Magic II is number 31. Van Caneghem was inducted into the Computer Gaming World Hall of Fame in 2004 for Strategy and Role-Playing. In 2014, Jon Van Caneghem founded VC Mobile Entertainment, also in Los Angeles, and unveiled its first title, Creature Quest, in January 2016. He remained in the succeeding studio, Victory Games, as general manager, leading the development of Command & Conquer (2013) On 29 October 2013, Victory Games closed and all staff was fired. Van Caneghem left Trion in 2009 and joined Electronic Arts Los Angeles where he collaborated on Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Trion produces server-side browser games. In 2006 Van Caneghem left NCSoft and launched Trion World Network, headquartered in Redwood City, California, after securing more than $100 million in investment capital from Time Warner, NBC Universal, General Electric and Bertelsmann. įrom 2004 to 2005, Van Caneghem worked at NCSoft as executive producer of a massively multiplayer online game.
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The rights to the Might and Magic name were purchased for $1.3 million by Ubisoft, which revived the franchise with a new series under the same name. He remained with 3DO as president and "lead visionary" until 2003 when 3DO filed for bankruptcy and eliminated its New World Computing division. Van Caneghem sold New World Computing to developer and publisher 3DO in 1996 for USD $13 million. In the following 20 years as president and CEO of New World Computing, Van Caneghem oversaw the publishing of more than 250 titles worldwide. In 1990 Van Caneghem released King's Bounty, the forerunner of the Heroes of Might and Magic series of seven games which feature turn-based, fantasy-themed conflicts in which players control armies of mythical creatures. The series went on to include nine bestselling games, all of which Van Cangehem co-created. Their first title was the medieval fantasy Might and Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum-one of the first role-playing games to feature detailed drawings of both indoor and outdoor locations. In 1983, Van Caneghem founded New World Computing, a publisher and developer of computer and console games. He attended grade school at Lycée Français de Los Angeles and his collegiate alma mater is UCLA, where he started as a pre-med student and graduated with a degree in computer science.
Van Caneghem was raised on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States by his mother, an artist, and his stepfather, a neurologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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