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THQ's bankruptcy sale details: Auction on January 22nd, Will Allow Piecemeal Purchase
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I imagine they feel they have enough cash flexibility for whatever they want to do.
EA only got more debt again after they bought PopCap so they could keep buying people as the need arose.
MrNyarlathotep
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Sega and Relic?
This is good news! Better than I'd hoped for.
You'll be telling me they're making a F2P sequel to The Outfit next
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TO BE THIS GOOD TAKES CILER
This is good news! Better than I'd hoped for.
You'll be telling me they're making a F2P sequel to The Outfit next
EDIT:
TO BE THIS GOOD TAKES CILER
Glass Rebel
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Just got this response in my twitter feed:
hrmmm
don't play with my heart
Just got this response in my twitter feed:
hrmmm
I love it!
Just got this response in my twitter feed:
hrmmm
We really do want to believe this.
Infinite Justice
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Just got this response in my twitter feed:
hrmmm
i guess its official then?
grimshawish
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Wasn't it Take-Two who recently shook their dicks about how much cash they had and well positioned they were for next-gen?
I'm wondering if Sega only wants Relic and isn't particularly interested in getting the CoH IP.
And anyway, how to pronounce KOCH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a7_uBJgr5Y
And anyway, how to pronounce KOCH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a7_uBJgr5Y
Relic's free 2 play game also fits well with the direction Sega has been heading as a digital company.
I always felt they were the other great strategic fit besides EA (meaning that it made sense for them as a business), but I thought the Sammy arm might not let them have the money to go for it.
I guess I was wrong (though in a good way)!
I always felt they were the other great strategic fit besides EA (meaning that it made sense for them as a business), but I thought the Sammy arm might not let them have the money to go for it.
I guess I was wrong (though in a good way)!
Baconsammy
Banned
That's awesome.
SteveWinwood
Member
Man if that's all it takes to confirm stuff nowadays.
It's a bit early to say that for sure.
The other bidders could just be quiet while deciding how high they're willing to go and then come back.
This is pretty obviously not a normal speed auction if it's still going four hours later.
Nope, not for years now.
Didn't Borderlands 2 sell fairly well? So, you would think that they would have made at least some money off of that game under 2K Games.
Infinite Justice
Member
i forgot the question mark in that post tbf.
So yea we'll just have to see.
Ok.....Nintendo isn't going to bid on ANY of these properties, so.......
Green Yoshi
Member
Any news on the South Park game or Metro Last Light? Would be nice if both release in the first half of 2013 as planned.
Sega going all in for that PC Strategy market. Total
I'm also kind of pissed to learn that Sega has all that cash. Make alpha protocol 2 damn it!
Gearbox partially funds Borderlands, so Take-Two's margins likely aren't great.
I was under the impression that MP3 underperformed?
spandexmonkey
Banned
Any word on Vigil?
Their Japanese studios got the short end of the investment stick here to be fair, even if projects like that got massacred in the restructure.
grimshawish
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You know how people say Bomb? But sometimes Bomba?
MP3 Bombed Bomba.
More interestingly is how SEGA has positioned itself behind PC.
It's kind of sad to see them killing Valkyria in the west by moving it to PSP and then investing in strategy games years later.
The only good thing I like from them is Cursed Mountain, in a wow B Grade horror game design game.
Delusibeta
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I would imagine the publishing deals are null and they will be sorted out independently, but apparently there's some problem with the South Park.
Sega tends to be a rather confused company.
Shorty11857
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Relic going to Sega makes perfect sense, Sega have a lot of success on PC (Football Manager and Total War) and assuming Relic is profitable they seem to be a perfect addition
With that money, they also better make a sequel akin to Sonic Generations and also bring Yakuza 5 out here in the west I would say.
Damn, I never knew that.
I didn't either until they said it in an interview once, but I imagine Gearbox is very wealthy now thanks to it.
That came up a while back, and I was also surprised to learn that Gearbox is not owned by T2 (or anyone else).
They also own most of their own IP.
Randy Pitchford is a pretty excellent businessman.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Well the former decision was by Sega of Japan while the latter was/is by western Sega so...
Oh yeah, rumors of this Sega's eventual death are greatly exaggerated. Sega is just dialing down the retail AAA market and focusing on digital because it's improbable they will make money in the retail AAA market segment anymore. The demise of Midway and THQ kind of prove that particular point.
GraveRobberX
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They only sell about 600K or so, but they're very profitable and constantly exceed Sega's expectations.
As such they are now gaining a second strategy team and (for a long time) have been gaining a console team to make an Alien game like Dead Space. This one seems to be cross-gen.
They're also now one of the largest developers in the UK at something like 200-250 people.
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