Sigil Games Online
Sigil Games Online, Inc. is a computer game developer based in Carlsbad, California that was founded by Brad McQuaid and Jeff Butler in January 2002 after leaving Sony Online Entertainment and EverQuest. The company is developing Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game speculated to be published by Microsoft in 2005 or 2006.
Sigil began growing once they reached their publishing deal with Microsoft in April 2002 and has attracted many developers who previously worked on the EverQuest series of games alongside McQuaid and Butler for Sony Online Entertainment/Verant. For example, artist Keith Parkinson, who had done the cover art for EQ and most of its expansions, joined Sigil in April 2002. Also around that time is when design work began on Vanguard.