23rd January 2013, 12:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 23rd January 2013, 3:10 PM by A Black Falcon.)
THQ went bankrupt last month, and was sold piece-by-piece at auction over the last day. Here are the results:
It's too bad for Vigil (Darksiders), looks like they're dead... kind of surprising, but you never know, obviously. As for other IPs, like the Darksiders name rights, or Red Faction, or such, either they're unwanted, or that news has not been announced yet. I never liked THQ all that much myself, and haven't played too many of their games, but they have been around for a while, and seemed to be getting better (game quality wise) recently... but unfortunately, it seems that they overreached, and it took them down. Too bad, and particularly too bad for Vigil, who joins the very long list of developers who went under this gen.
As for Atari, they're not quite dead yet, but are heading that way; their American branch, Atari USA (once known as GT Interactive, before Infogrames bought them back in the late '90s), declared bankruptcy recently, so that they can separate themselves from their troubled French parent company; apparently the US branch, which is just a publisher and doesn't own game studios itself anymore, actually is profitable, so they don't want to go down with the unprofitable main company. Understandable.
Quote:Sega agreed to purchase Relic [studio]Also, EA seems to have bought the WWE license. Or maybe Take Two (for 2k). No announcement yet.
Koch Media [European company that owns the console publisher Deep Silver] agreed to purchase Volition [studio] and Metro [game]
Crytek agreed to purchase Homefront [IP and game Homefront 2]
Take 2 agreed purchase Evolve [game] and
Ubisoft agreed to purchase [THQ] Montreal and South Park [game]
We expect these sales to close this week.
Some assets, including our publishing businesses and Vigil, along with some other
intellectual properties are not included in the sale agreements. They will remain part of
the Chapter 11 case. We will make every effort to find appropriate buyers, if possible.
It's too bad for Vigil (Darksiders), looks like they're dead... kind of surprising, but you never know, obviously. As for other IPs, like the Darksiders name rights, or Red Faction, or such, either they're unwanted, or that news has not been announced yet. I never liked THQ all that much myself, and haven't played too many of their games, but they have been around for a while, and seemed to be getting better (game quality wise) recently... but unfortunately, it seems that they overreached, and it took them down. Too bad, and particularly too bad for Vigil, who joins the very long list of developers who went under this gen.
As for Atari, they're not quite dead yet, but are heading that way; their American branch, Atari USA (once known as GT Interactive, before Infogrames bought them back in the late '90s), declared bankruptcy recently, so that they can separate themselves from their troubled French parent company; apparently the US branch, which is just a publisher and doesn't own game studios itself anymore, actually is profitable, so they don't want to go down with the unprofitable main company. Understandable.
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