VIRTUAL HEROES

The Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, North Carolina, recently selected Applied Research Associates, Inc.’s (ARA, Inc.) Virtual Heroes Division (VHD) as one of the Triangles Top Game Developers for 2014. Virtual Heroes has risen to the 5th position on the journal’s list of the largest game developers, with 22 employees in the Triangle. Plans for expansion of the division may enable VHD to rise to the position of 3rd or 4th largest developer in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area by 2015. Large game developers Epic Games (maker of the Unreal Engine used by VHD) and Red Storm Entertainment perennially fill sports 1 and 2, with other companies regularly vying for positions 3 through 20.