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| Type | Private |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | February 2005 |
| Founder | Bas van Berkestijn |
| Headquarters | , Netherlands |
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Number of employees | 50 (2016) |
| Website | forcefieldxr.com |
Force Field Entertainment B.V. (formerly Woedend! Games, W!Games, and Vanguard Games) is a Dutch video game developer based in Amsterdam. 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 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 (also founders of Guerrilla Games) in 2010, and became Vanguard Games.[1][2][3][4] The new company went to develop Greed Corp successor Gatling Gears, mobile game Base Busters, and Halo spin-offs Halo and Halo.
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 Entertainment B.V., a developer specializing in virtual reality and augmented reality experiences.[5][6]
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