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THQ’s remaining assets including Darksiders, Red Faction, MX vs. ATV, and more have found
new homes.
According to THQ, three buyers spent a total of $6.6 million on the company’s remaining
assets, subject to court approval.
As for who now owns who:
1. Nordic Games purchased the rights to Darksiders, Red Faction and MX vs. ATV, as well as rights
to THQ’s other owned software (Destroy All Humans!, Summoner and more) and licensed software
(Marvel Super Hero Squad, Supreme Commander and more) for $4.9 million in total.
Nordic Games CEO Lars Wingefors has released the following statement:
“First and foremost we are very happy about this deal which also turns over a new leaf
for the entire Nordic Games Group. In the long term, we either want to cooperate with
the original creators or best possible developers in order to work on sequels or additional
content for these titles. A very important point for us is not to dash into several self-financed
multi-million dollar projects right away, but rather to continue our in-depth analysis
of all titles and carefully selecting different financing models for developing new installments
of acquired IPs."
1. As announced earlier, Borderlands 2 developer Gearbox Software purchased the rights to the
Homeworld franchise, and THQ has now disclosed that the purchase price was $1.35 million.
2. The rights to Drawn to Life and Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter were purchased by 505
Games for $300,000. 505 is the publisher of games such as Naughty Bear.
THQ expects the court to finalize the sales by May 13th.
THQ was dissolved earlier this year and other big properties like Saints Row, Homefront,
and Company of Heroes were auctioned off in January.
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