Activision is strenghtening its position in the gaming market. The company today announced it has bought Vicarious Visions, a developer that has made five million-sellers and is currently co-developing the highly anticipated DOOM 3 for the Xbox with id Software, as well as Spider-Man 2, which will be a launch title for the upcoming PSP platform.

In addition, they have developed such popular titles for the Game Boy Advance as Shrek 2, Shrek 2: Beg for Mercy, DreamWorks' Shark Tale and Tony Hawk's Underground 2.

Kathy Vrabeck, President of Activision Publishing, said, "Vicarious Visions' talented development team and proprietary technology combined with our internal systems and capabilities will play a key role in Activision's continued leadership on the next-generation platforms. Vicarious Visions has a track record of success and we are very excited to partner with them."

I guess we should be happy EA, Sony or Microsoft didn't snap this developer up before Activision did! Now bring us more GameCube games from Vicarious Vision. I tell ya...