Viacom Sells Harmonix To... Harmonix

Well that didn't take too long. After stating back in November that it was intending to sell off the Rock Band developer, Viacom has announced that Harmonix has been sold to Columbus Nova, an investment management firm. Specifically, CN has set up a new affiliate company, known as Harmonix-SBE Holdings, LLC, to run the Cambridge-based studio.

The specifics of the deal have not been announced, but a note posted by Harmonix's John Drake (but attributed simply to Harmonix) states...

We’re excited to be returning to our roots as an independent and privately owned studio. As for what it means for you, the DLC schedule marches on for Rock Band, we will continue our support of previously released titles and we’re hard at work on some unannounced projects that we think you’re going to be pumped about.

Though there's an investment firm backing them up, this essentially sounds like Harmonix is once again in control of Harmonix, something that sounds like a pretty good deal to me. 
 
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