Death of Mike Watson



Mike Watson, otherwise known by his online alias IdolNinja, was a video game developer who originally started his work as a modder for Saints Row games, with Gentlemen of the Row, a mod for mh:awesomegames:Saints Row 2, being his most famous work. Eventually, Watson was hired to work for Volition, the company behind the Saints Row series, as a community manager. He was working on a big patch to fix the infamous PC version of Saints Row 2, but in early 2021, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he had announced that he would retire, with someone else taking over the work on the SR2 patch. Watson eventually passed away on August 24th, 2021, a day before the 2022 Saints Row reboot was announced.

This page is dedicated to Mike Watson, AKA IdolNinja.