Madrugador
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You will be missed THQ. RIP.
Koch Media (Deep Silver) did.Good to hear Sega gobbled up Relic. Hopefully somebody snatches up Volition.
RIP for making some really solid and fun games this gen like RF Guerrilla, Darksiders and SR2 but then going on a streak of making some of the worst games I've played this gen like Space Marine,
I'll always have my N64 wrestling games and the first few PS1 smackdown games.
This has been quite an experience. Seeing a company like THQ completely fall apart was quite sad but I'm happy that at least some jobs and projects were saved.
The biggest and best surprise for me was SEGA buying Relic. I think they're in very good company alongside Sports Interactive & Creative Assemply and I fully expect the Warhammer 40k license to follow them. It'll be very interesting to see what they'll do after Company of Heroes 2 but I'm very excited about them joining the SEGA West family.
Koch Media/Deep Silver's acquisition of Volition and Saints Row came completely left-field but it's not necessarily bad I think. Those two assets push them up a few steps on the publisher ladder and from what I've heard the studios retain a lot of creative freedom. I'm glad they outbid Ubisoft on those and Metro: Last Light.
Take Two bidding $11m for Evolve makes me very optimistic about the game and the concept art looks promising as well. Clearly TT saw something in the game if they were willing to bid so much for it.
Homefront being bought by Crytek is just so surreal. More than likely they're just trying to not let all their work go to waste but I still can't help thinking "who would want that?". I doubt this franchise will go beyond Homefront 2 and I'm not even interested who's going to publish it.
THQ Montréal in the hands of Ubisoft is annoying and somewhat hilarious. Patrice is in the most awkward situation and I'm really sorry for him but more than that I just didn't want more studios and franchises ending up at Ubisoft and use their terrible uPlay client. Same goes for South Park. Seeing as there was nobody else bidding for either, I can't be too mad though. Disappointed in Square-Enix not showing up but I guess they didn't need a third studio in Montréal.
The biggest tragedy here was the closure of Vigil. I just can't believe that nobody would be interested in such a talented albeit unfocused developer as Vigil. I've said it before but I'm convinced that a different publisher could have made Darksiders a profitable endeavour. I just hope the guys and gals at Vigil land on their feet and find new jobs in the Austin area (Arkane and Retro are hiring, guys!).
All in all a very sad moment indeed but I hope that future companies will learn from it.
Are you shitting me?
What will happen to Metro Last Light?
.RIP THQ
fuck this gen.
Ubisoft got it's publishing rights.
Agreed on both accounts.RIP THQ
fuck this gen.
For those who care all the games that were published by THQ in the nearly 25 years that they've been around:
A company awesome enough to not only greenlight an innovative game like de Blob but even a sequel despite low sales of the original is a ok in my book. Speaking of which, I know Blue-Tongue is out of business, so who owns the de Blob IP now?
I did buy it. It was doomed because multiplatform sequel to Wii exclusive.De Blob WHY DID YOU PEOPLE NOT BUY THIS GREAT SERIES?! THE MUSIC WAS AWESOME AND SO WAS THE GAMEPLAY! "Sobs"
I did buy it. It was doomed because multiplatform sequel to Wii exclusive.