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A Huge Chunk of THQ's Remaining Properties Up for Auction This April

If you've been saving your money in the hopes of buying the Destroy All Humans! franchise, you'd better get those last few dollars quick.

Now you can rescue Darksiders! Presuming, of course, that is something you can actually afford to do.
Now you can rescue Darksiders! Presuming, of course, that is something you can actually afford to do.

Following THQ's dissolution as a publisher and the initial auctioning off of its current properties and games in development, the publisher had noted that many of its legacy franchises would also be going up for auction in a separate volley. Late yesterday, THQ announced the second wave of property auctions, which will begin on April 1 with opening bids, and conclude on April 15 with all final bids having been placed.

The auctions are broken out into six lots, four of which are franchise specific. The Red Faction, MX vs. ATV, Darksiders, and Homeworld franchises will all be purchasable separately (and include rights to all previous games released in those series), while a potpourri selection of other random games/franchises--including the likes of Destroy All Humans!, de Blob, Titan Quest, Deepak Chopra's Leela, recent Worms games, Costume Quest, and yes, even uDraw--have been cobbled together in the remaining two. It's worth noting that one of those collection auctions only pertains to licenses held by THQ, versus properties fully owned.

Once all bids are placed and approved by THQ's creditors, the remnants of the publisher will take those bids to the bankruptcy court, where they are expected to be approved. All of these bids and sales should be finalized by May.

Here's a full rundown of the available auction lots, provided this is something you're thinking about spending some money on. Just a warning: There's no sign of Big Mutha Truckers in this auction. So if you're dying to reboot this particular trucking franchise, you'll have to wait until the next THQ property auction.

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Lot 1 - OWNED SOFTWARE

Lot 2 - OWNED SOFTWARE

Lot 3 - OWNED SOFTWARE

Lot 4 - OWNED SOFTWARE

Lot 5 - OWNED SOFTWARE

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Lot 6 - LICENSED SOFTWARE (buyer to pay any cure costs)

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Going to get that sweet Juiced licence.

Edit: I don't think Lot 6 would be all that bad an acquirement for Double Fine, I could actually see them doing interesting reboots with some of those licences with a bit of vision, games shows, adventure games, worms.

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Heres to hoping someone cool picks up darksiders.

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How much for Deadly Creatures by itself?

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How about a buck?

But really, I'm all for Double Fine getting the rights to their games back.

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I wonder how much the Stuntman rights would cost because I think that Stuntman: Ignition was supremely underrated

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You know everyone in the game industry is going to be biding on uDraw.

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@wrecks said:

I need to set up a "Let's Buy Red Faction!" Quickstarter.

And I'll be the first to sign up !!!

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Please someone pick up the MX license and release MX Superfly HD every year for the rest of forever.

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@giovanni said:

@tylea002 said:

WHO WANTS TO BUY JUICED WITH ME

I have like 15 bucks. Let's do it!

There's $300 in my freezer, I'm in!

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@snide: Hell yes Titan Quest is pretty awesome! Let's pick it up!

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save red faction

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Dude I bet I could get uDraw on the cheap! You think they'd throw in the artifacts for free?

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Someone buy titan quest. Still my favorite Action RPG.

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I really hope someone picks up and does something with that Destroy All Humans series. That first game (and to a lesser extent the second one) were fun campy openworld games with a neat premise. Man that first game was pretty fun wasn't it Krypto (or Crypto? who cares) I still dont understand how they managed to fuck up those games

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Someone tell Firiaxs to go buy Full Spectrum Warrior

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I really hope someone does something with Full Spectrum Warrior.

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Yo guys. I bet that if we pool our resources, we can buy Fancy Nancy. Who's with me?</p>

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I liked the first couple Destroy All HUmans games.... but Is till can't believe they held Darksiders and Red Faction back for the shit sale :/

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So for Double Fine to get the rights to Stacking and Costume Quest back they would need to buy that entire lot of garbage? Bummer. Looks like that isn't happening.

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HAH! Juiced...

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the news: giantbomb community buys THQ licenses and starts own game developing company.

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How much for the MX Superfly theme song?

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@earthbowl said:

From what was said about Darksiders, I hope Platinum gets the rights for it. I would love to see their style of development be implemented in the already established look and gameplay of the series so far.

You seriously gave me an erection.

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Finally, my plan to bankrupt THQ has come to its fruition. Now no one can prevent me from buying the rights to All Star Cheer Squad 2! Ha! Ha! AAAAAAHAHAHAHA!

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SAVE DARKSIDERS!

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I'M BUYING ROCKET RIOT

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Hopefully someone picks up Darksiders as well as Titans Quest.

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@kosayn said:

Maybe I'm the bad guy here, but I think most of these franchises should just end.

Worms, Homeworld, Costume Quest, You Don't Know Jack... even picking out the ones that once upon a time made a good game, I think all of them would struggle to produce sequels with any real innovation in 2013.

Obviously you haven't ever played the YDNJ Facebook game.

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I wish I had infinite money.

Though I bet inflation would quickly become a bitch.

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I liked the first two Destroy All Humans! games. Can I just buy the rights to those two games? Or can I buy the rights to all of them, and then lock away 3 and Big Willy forever?

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@poki3 said:

Homeworld, please find a good home...

I hope so too! Homeworld needs to come back!

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Maybe I'm the bad guy here, but I think most of these franchises should just end.

Worms, Homeworld, Costume Quest, You Don't Know Jack... even picking out the ones that once upon a time made a good game, I think all of them would struggle to produce sequels with any real innovation in 2013.

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I really hope Volition can buy Red Faction. I don't really want to see anyone but them work on that series.

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I really hope Square-enix/Eidos pick up Darksiders and do something interesting with it, even 2K would be a good fit but if Activision get their mitts on it then its doomed.

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Maybe Platinum actually could buy Darksiders...

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Is there a minimum bid again this time? If not.. LET THE FUN BEGIN :D

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@tylea002 said:

WHO WANTS TO BUY JUICED WITH ME

I have like 15 bucks. Let's do it!

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I hope Crytek buys Darksiders. I can't think of what else Crytek could get the Vigil guys to work on.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I remember Crytek saying they were not interested in buying the Darksiders rights. :| They are probably going to come up with something new for them to work on.

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Someone just has to buy Darksiders...please!

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WHO WANTS TO BUY JUICED WITH ME

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Those games were fucking awesome. I wish someone would make a game with those mechanics again and give it proper multiplayer. The few online games I could find when TH came out were some of the best MP experiences I've ever had.

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Man, Juiced! Guys, remember Juiced? Let's buy Juiced.

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Hope games like de blob and deadly creatures finds a good home.

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Hopefully someone picks up darksiders. Those games were great. Same goes for red faction.

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Guys lets pool our funds to buy homeworld.

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Homeworld, please find a good home...

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@mancopter said:

@godmil said:

If costume quest is bundled in with a huge lot, does that make it too difficult for Double Fine to buy it?

This is what crossed my mind as well. :/

Same. It's in the same lot as Stacking, so hopefully that will make it easier for them to get both back from whatever company picks up the lot. I can't imagine that either (even though I love both) is so valuable that the new owner won't want to give them up.

edit: I just looked at Steam and Double Fine has published both there. They also own the IPs as far as I know so they can make sequels any time. Maybe the console distribution rights aren't so important at this stage in the generation and it doesn't really matter.

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I hope Crytek buys Darksiders. I can't think of what else Crytek could get the Vigil guys to work on.

I hope Double Fine get their stuff too.

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I hope relic will buy back the homeworld series or at least sega will finance the buying of them so relic can develope a new homeworld game