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THQ's bankruptcy sale details: Auction on January 22nd, Will Allow Piecemeal Purchase
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They may have been there, we do not know.
michaelius
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Why would they buy average (i'm being generous here) developer when they passed chances to buy better ones ?
This is good, this is very good.
AHA-Lambda
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Why just Nintendo? Sony or Microsoft would be just as bad.
Well, Sony and Microsoft's next gen consoles may be able to handle Metro pretty decently, but the Wii U on the other hand...
AHA-Lambda
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Just because everyone keeps saying Nintendo, even though they are almost assuredly the least likely publisher to do so outside of groups like Majesco and 505 Games.
We don't know yet, I think we have about another hour to wait, I believe.
metalslimer
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So we have no idea what happened to Vigil
Im pretty sure Metro isn't for sale
THQ publishes it but the IP belongs to 4A Games who as far as i know are not owned by THQ unless i missed something.
Fox Mulder
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Who knows, maybe they don't want to spend tons when they'll get those games anyways. Nintendo is the one that should have been interested in big western third party IPs.
Did we even know MS bought the Hydro Thunder IP after Midway died until it was announced for xbla?
The game would be exclusive though, which is far worse than being stuck on inferior hardware.
Well, now that you mention it there are probably more people calling on Nintendo than the other two, but I kind of get the impression that they are only half-serious due to how unlikely it is that Nintendo would actually buy anything.
Delusibeta
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No word yet, although I imagine Metro will be dealt with separately since THQ only had a publishing deal.
Glad to see CoH went to Sega if confirmed, haven't played any game on the franchise, but it's good to see a PC franchise went to a publisher that's been pretty good on that front, rather than a publisher that would try to shoe-horn it into consoles and then subsequencially kill it when it fails (or reboot and then kill it when the reboot fails).
More concerned about Saints Row, hopefully it won't go to EA or to any first party.
I'm ok with South Park going to Ubisoft as long as they don't force uPlay into it/delay the PC version.... so I guess I'm not ok with it.
There's a Nintendo Direct today, clearly that means that Nintendo is about to announce Metro Last Light, Saints Row 4 and Darksiders III as exclusives to the Wii U after having adquired them yesterday, why else would there be a Nintendo Direct right after the auctions!
More concerned about Saints Row, hopefully it won't go to EA or to any first party.
I'm ok with South Park going to Ubisoft as long as they don't force uPlay into it/delay the PC version.... so I guess I'm not ok with it.
There's a Nintendo Direct today, clearly that means that Nintendo is about to announce Metro Last Light, Saints Row 4 and Darksiders III as exclusives to the Wii U after having adquired them yesterday, why else would there be a Nintendo Direct right after the auctions!
Yes, it is, this is the very definition of serious business.
i'd rather read about this than the next PR preview. At least this is actual news.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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It's serious. And it's business. Can't get any more serious business than that.
the license was up for sale (along with any other exclusive (in copyright sense) license). A bunch of companies objected to having their license/contract transferred, but I don't remember seeing one from 4A. I posted previously a list of every contract that was up for assumption
Glass Rebel
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This should be more or less right.
Franchises
Saints Row - Koch Media had highest bid, most publisher interest
Darksiders - No concrete information, some publisher interest
Red Faction - No concrete information, some publisher interest
Company of Heroes - SEGA had highest bid, EA was interested as well, rumours say SEGA already bought it
Evolve (Turtle Rock IP) - No concrete information, rumour says Koch Media bought it
Homefront - No concrete information, rumour says Crytek (who is developing the sequel) bought rights
Studios
Volition - No concrete information, will most likely be sold together with Saints Row franchise
Relic - SEGA had highest bid, rumour says they bought it
Vigil - No concrete information
THQ Montreal - No concrete information
Franchises not up for sale
Metro
Licenses not up for sale
WWE
Warhammer 40k
Fuck if I know
South Park - THQ wants to sell, South Park Studios is apparently saying no, serious business. Rumour says Ubisoft bought publishing rights.
Franchises
Saints Row - Koch Media had highest bid, most publisher interest
Darksiders - No concrete information, some publisher interest
Red Faction - No concrete information, some publisher interest
Company of Heroes - SEGA had highest bid, EA was interested as well, rumours say SEGA already bought it
Evolve (Turtle Rock IP) - No concrete information, rumour says Koch Media bought it
Homefront - No concrete information, rumour says Crytek (who is developing the sequel) bought rights
Studios
Volition - No concrete information, will most likely be sold together with Saints Row franchise
Relic - SEGA had highest bid, rumour says they bought it
Vigil - No concrete information
THQ Montreal - No concrete information
Franchises not up for sale
Metro
Licenses not up for sale
WWE
Warhammer 40k
Fuck if I know
South Park - THQ wants to sell, South Park Studios is apparently saying no, serious business. Rumour says Ubisoft bought publishing rights.
Stumpokapow
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You definitely have an error in this section.
Glass Rebel
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whoops, meant
imagine that, Volition objecting to a South Park sale... "who the fuck asked you"
edit: apparently SPS filed the complant, not Viacom
El Pescado
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If this is true please for the love of God don't let EA have any contact with Yukes...
Highest bid yesterday, not necessarily winner.
They used AKI for their Def Jam games, but didn't AKI rebrand or something?
Edit: Are THQ San Diego up for auction today? They did a good job with WWE All-Stars.
Highest bid as of like 12+ hours ago to note.
Yukes is another interesting one in this whole affair since THQ actually owned a minority stake in them.
I'm almost entirely positive EA would just make the games in Canada with the same sub-studio doing Fight Night and UFC.
Highest bid during the pre-bid stage then? As I recall there was a prelim bid stage and then a full auction.
Yes, they're syn Sophia now.
Don't think they made any more wrestling games since the rebranding.
Koch are pretty big dude, they also distribute and publish games in Europe and the same thing with film and software.
Glass Rebel
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Do we know anything about THQ Montreal? I thought they were pretty huge and they must have been working on something. I remember people throwing "1666" around, was that Desilets new game?
More bank then Warner, EA or Ubisoft?
I looked at their website before I posted that, we have a different definition of pretty big. Their games include Risen franchise, Sacred franchise, Dead Island, Secret Files, and Lost Horizon. Then they only publish (not considered a core brand) X - Factor, Prison Break, and the X series. I really like X series and Risen, but they are still pretty small even in the PC gaming world. Their movie division appears to be even smaller than that.
Hopefully far far faaaar away from this.
Vinterbird
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1666 was the new game from Patrice, we know nothing else besides that.
It is, "1666 Amsterdam". Probably Ubisoft or Warner Bros for this one (they both visited the studio, as Microsoft did too but they finally removed their offer).
Kotaku thought so but Examiner reported that Patrice's game was mentioned separately as an as-yet untitled project.
No far from it they do distribution of movies, software and video games along with publishing they are quite big and if Dead Island was their attempt to produce more quality titles then I'm all behind this, the problem is Volition without Saints Row will be a lesser product than if they are together...
Acidote
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They distribute a lot of games in Europe. No only those, a lot. I know they've distributed in Spain games from Capcom, Square Enix, Bethesda, NCSoft, SEGA, THQ and many others. They're not anything near the big ones, but they're big.
The San Diego studio was closed after they sold the UFC license. Not sure if the closure was 100% completed yet, though.
They worked with a ton of companies in terms of distribution in Europe iirc
http://www.kochmedia.com/games/partners.html
I guess they aren't as massive as Ubi, EA and Warner but what I was trying to say was that they could buy a studio for $5.2m if they wanted to.
Glass Rebel
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1666 - THQ Montreal
Unnamed Project - THQ Montreal (Desilets game)
Atlas - Relic (probably the MOBA?)
Evolve - Turtle Rock
Crawler - Vigil
Interesting, thanks guys.
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