The deal is done; the sale of THQ’s assets have been completed. Titles such as Homefront, Evolve, Metro: Last Light, and Southpark: The Stick of Truth along with companies such as Relic, THQ Montreal, and Volition were up for grabs and they have been sold off to different companies. Here’s the break down:
Companies
Relic Entertainment -> Sega for $26.6 million
THQ Montreal -> Ubisoft for $2.5 million
Volition -> Koch Media, $22.312 millionGame Titles
Homefront -> Crytek for $544,218
Metro: Last Light -> Koch Media for $5.877 million
Southpark: The Stick of Truth -> Ubisoft for $3.265 million
Evolve -> Take-Two Interactive for $10.894 million
Furthermore, here is an exceprt from a statement by THQ CEO, Brian Farrell to employees.
We expect that most employees of the entities included in the sale will be offered employment by the new owners. However, we cannot say what these owners may intend, and there will likely be some positions that will not be needed under the new ownership. You should receive notice this week or early next week if the new owners intend to extend employment to you. Please note that the terms of your new employment, including pay and benefits, may be different from the current terms of your employment with THQ.
So, it seems some individuals may still be employed and most major titles have found a new home. It also seems that Koch Media (parent company of Deep Silver, which is responsible for games such as Dead Island) made out very well by acquiring both Relic and Metro. However, Crytek managed to snag Homefront for a relatively cheap price. Unfortunately, no bids were made for Vigil, the makers of Dark Siders, which means the IP and company currently remain in Limbo at the moment.
Source: kotaku.com
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Damn… relic is now sega…. I’m worried… :/
Relic could still produce quality even from Sega.
I’m worried about Vigil though….
Sega have been shutting down peoples youtube channels for showing their games. This could seriously hurt CoH 2.
What the hell do Crytek want with Homefront?
Crytek has been making Homefront 2 for a while. I don’t know if they approached THQ or if THQ hired them but either way buying it for that relativity small amount makes sense. Anyone else that bought it or if it went unbought it could have screwed them over.
Maybe they want to make it a good game 😛
I thought the introduction to Homefront was excellent, didn’t play much more than an hour after that.
It’s being reported that Take 2 purchased the WWE license.
Atsushi Inaba (exec director and producer at Platinum Games) jokingly said he would buy the Darksiders IP for really cheap so it’s possible that Platinum Games has some interest in it. Later Inaba made this tweet: “Thank you for all the messages about what I said regarding Darksiders. I hope to say more in the future”. Ben Cureteon (the lead combat designer from both Darksider’s games) responded to a post from Platinum talking about hiring people. Could be very interesting.
I like the WWE games but they are so broken, me and my friends reverse 99% of the moves and it just becomes boring 🙁
That really sucks…THQ was great back in the day. What really worries me is that now Ubisoft now has Southpark: The Stick of Truth. 🙁
They only have the publishing rights. South Park Studios directly worked with Obsidian on the game. THQ wasn’t even brought in until after the game started development. So Ubi really owns nothing but the rights to release a nearly complete game.