Random Thoughts & Topics

[vivisectvi]

Another run-down of winning bidders and runners-up:

Relic (studio) and Company of Heroes (IP)
Winning bid: $26.6 million - Sega Corporation
Backup bidder: $26.3 million - Zenimax Media

THQ Montreal (studio), with 1666 (IP) and Underdog (IP)
Winning bid: $2.5 million - Ubisoft
Backup bidder: N/A

Evolve (IP) aka Metamorphosis
Winning bid: $10.894 million - Take-Two Interactive
Backup bidder: $250,000 Turtle Rock Studios, Inc.

Volition (studio) and Saints Row (IP)
Winning bid: $22.3 million - Koch Media GmbH (Deep Silver)
Backup bidder: $5.4 million - Ubisoft

Homefront (IP)
Winning bid: $544,218 - Crytek GmbH
Backup bidder: N/A

Metro (license), which includes 2033 and 2034
Winning bid: $5,877,551 - Koch Media GmbH (Deep Silver)
Backup bidder: $5.175 million - Ubisoft

South Park: The Stick of Truth (license)
Winning bid: $3,265,306 - Ubisoft
Backup bidder: N/A

 

[bps21]

ign is saying that Take Two (which makes the 2K games) is going to acquire the WWE games franchise.

 

[2GOLD]

ign is saying that Take Two (which makes the 2K games) is going to acquire the WWE games franchise.

That could end up being pretty awesome.

 

[fazzle]

Or they could just bring the entire yukes team in and have them regurgitate the same bullshit again.


Hopefully not.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Doesn't Sega already deal with the Total War series? That seems redundant to pick up Relic and Company of Heroes.

I wasn't aware Koch (as Deep Silver) had Dead Island. And now Volition too. Blah. (Edit: Never mind. Koch Media is not affiliated with Koch Industries and the Koch brothers.)

 

[vivisectvi]

More THQ via Joystiq: THQ sold off much of its intellectual property, and existing catalog, yesterday in an auction. But what about all the THQ IP that wasn't included, like Darksiders and (why not) uDraw? THQ president Jason Rubin told Game Informer that other sales of legacy holdings will be forthcoming. "There will be a separate process to sell off the back catalog and IP," Rubin said. "That process will take place in the coming weeks." Rubin did not say what form the "process" would take, whether it will involve private individual deals or further auctioning.



We should pool our funds and buy a franchise.

 

[fazzle]

I'll put $20 in for Evil Dead. I mean, they've got to have a video game for the remake, right?