Vanguard Entertainment Group merges the properties and expertise in de Ronde and Mol’s company Karami, an executive production company in the field of online games, and W! Games, developer of PSN and XBLA titles such as the recently released and critically acclaimed Greed Corp.

The merger between both parties will allow for the creation of a new breed of online games for consoles and other premium gaming platforms, taking the fundamental mechanics of the fast growing market of PC online games and applying them to products for consoles and other premium platforms.

“Over the past few years, we have been closely following the rapid rise of social network games, browser based games and new online business models associated with these platforms. We also see that the market for console games forms the heart of our industry still in terms of revenue and state of the art production values. We feel both these market segments will be rapidly converging over the coming years, rather than competing with each other, and with Vanguard we want to be at the forefront of this development. It will be Vanguard’s mission to capitalize on the need for new types of online content on consoles, which it will be doing with games based on original IP,” stated Martin de Ronde, Vanguard Entertainment Group’s new Chief Commercial Officer.

Vanguard is currently working on several new projects, with the first due to be announced shortly.