Yup, judge blew up the quick whole-THQ sale they were trying to push through and the assets will be auctioned piecemeal 1/22.
https://twitter.com/DDInvesting/stat...76488573673472
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http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/01/08/th...y-title-basis/Yup, judge blew up the quick whole-THQ sale they were trying to push through and the assets will be auctioned piecemeal 1/22.
https://twitter.com/DDInvesting/stat...76488573673472
According to the letter, Sega will buy Relic Entertainment and the Company of Heroes franchise; Koch Media has picked up Volition, Saint's Row and the Metro property; Crytek has purchased the Homefront franchise, Take-Two bought the rights to an unannounced game called Evolve; and Ubisoft has bought THQ Montreal and the South Park RPG. THQ went on to say that some of the assets have yet to be sold and will be handled under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings that are ongoing.
Two franchises that were not mentioned in Rubin's letter was the WWE series of wrestling titles and Darksiders. Darksiders developer Vigil Games has apparently laid off all of its staff as of today, according to various sources.
Sega didn't purchase the rights to the Homeworld IP, unfortunately. THQ will be auctioning them off in a few weeks time. Hopefully someone competent buys them.Sega lets make Homeworld 3.
Relic didn't own the 40k IP rights though, it was THQ. No idea who ended up with what after this, especially since Vigil was making the next 40K game and no one bought them.Here's to hoping they allow Relic to keep pumping out CoH and 40k games. Sega also owns Creative Assembly (Total War) who just bought the rights to Warhammer Fantasy so maybe there will be some collaboration down the road.
Kindly choke on a bag of dicks. Also, THQ did not have the Warhammer Fantasy rights. Don't think anybody really did, because pretty much every WH Fantasy game has been pretty awful. Except Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omen I guess, which were ok by the standards of 15-20 years ago.Koch Media needs to drop Saints Row
Sega signed a multi-title deal for the Warhammer Fantasy rights late last year before the recent Relic purchase. I'm hoping for a Warhammer: Total War but that would be a long way off consider Rome 2 isn't scheduled to release until late 2013.Kindly choke on a bag of dicks. Also, THQ did not have the Warhammer Fantasy rights. Don't think anybody really did, because pretty much every WH Fantasy game has been pretty awful. Except Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omen I guess, which were ok by the standards of 15-20 years ago.