If Kotaku is to be trusted, this is how things turned out:

• Relic Entertainment to Sega
• THQ Montreal (that's Patrice Déselit team) and South Park to Ubisoft
• Evolve (unannounced Turtle Rock game) to Take Two
• Volition and Metro last Light to Koch Media (the Dead Island folks)
• Homefront to Crytek
• Vigil Games still got screwed?

What do you guys think of these scenarios?

Volition to Deep Silver.....hope not

Ha, Deep Silver. That's such a big fat bummer that I can't do anything but laugh.

Seems like Relic to Sega is official according to one of their employees:

Huh. No EA or Activision purchases? What about the game franchises? Those going along with the developers who made them?

It must really suck to be Volition right now. What a damn shame.

Yo Patrice, you just got JeffGreen'd!

Turtle Rock is independent though, so that can't be true

Relic and Sega seems to be confirmed, and thank god for that

I simply refuse to believe that no one else made a better offer for Volition than Deep Silver. If this is true, they're doomed.
 
The others I am fine with, except that I still hope Vigil finds a new home. I also wasn't even aware that Turtle Rock had reformed after being acquired by Valve.

Vigil being screwed bums me out. Hopes it's not true.

@MooseyMcMan said:

Huh. No EA or Activision purchases? What about the game franchises? Those going along with the developers who made them?

The sales hearing hasn't concluded, these are all some grounded rumours. We'll get official results within the hour. IP's and studios are being bid on separately.

I imagine associated franchises were part of getting said developer, right? (As in by getting Volition, Deep Silver also got Saint's Row, right?)

lol if Vigil Games gets shuttered.

Man, this would suck for Vigil :(

Maybe Retro will hire some folks.

From Kotackooo

• The proposed sales of multiple assets is as follows :

• Sega agreed to purchase Relic

• Koch Media agreed to purchase Volition and Metro

• Crytek agreed to purchase Homefront

• Take 2 agreed purchase Evolve and

• Ubisoft agreed to purchase Montreal and South Park

@Abendlaender said:

Yo Patrice, you just got JeffGreen'd!

Hahahah, indeed.

"Now announcing a Shaundi fleshlight with every preorder of Saints Row 4: Supa Gangsta Edition."

Later than day...

"We apologize for the announcement of the Shaundi fleshlight with every preorder of Saints Row 4: Supa Gangsta Edition. We totally didn't know they were doing that. We just gave them some money and said fuck it."

According to Kotaku, a letter sent to THQ employees confirm the following:

• Sega agreed to purchase Relic
• Koch Media agreed to purchase Volition and Metro
• Crytek agreed to purchase Homefront
• Take 2 agreed purchase Evolve and
• Ubisoft agreed to purchase Montreal and South Park

http://kotaku.com/5978429/this-is-the-letter-that-thq-sent-to-employees-today

@Winternet said:

• THQ Montreal (that's Patrice Déselit team) and South Park to Ubisoft

I don't understand why Ubisoft would pickup THQ Montreal, why did Patrice leave Ubisoft in the first place? If his reasons haven't changed, what's to stop him from doing it again?

Sega picking up Relic also seems odd, didn't they just explicitly state when Anarchy Reigns came out that they were getting out of retail, while Relic is a PC developer, I don't see them working all that well abandoning retail.

Volition to Deep Silver seems pretty good to me, they are small enough that they will probably won't restrict content in the next Saints Row which probably would have happened if they had gone to a bigger publisher.

I wonder if Double Fine succeeded in getting Costume Quest & Stacking back.

I hope Relic continues to make Warhammer 40,000 games. I really want a Dawn of War III.

@BabyChooChoo said:

"Now announcing a Shaundi fleshlight with every preorder of Saints Row 4: Supa Gangsta Edition."

Later than day...

"We apologize for the announcement of the Shaundi fleshlight with every preorder of Saints Row 4: Supa Gangsta Edition. We totally didn't know they were doing that. We just gave them some money and said fuck it."

You guys are still gonna make good on my pre-order though, right? You still got a few boxes of them in the back?

Sorry, but I don't get the hate for Volition going to Deep Silver. They can market a game. Dead Island was marketed so that it became a franchise for them. It may have been misleading and the recent Dead Island muck up was pretty bad, but it seems like Deep Silver is making a go at becoming a more major player.

Volition to Deep Silver is extremely upsetting.  
 
Any word on the WWE license? 

@Kidavenger said:

Sega picking up Relic also seems odd, didn't they just explicitly state when Anarchy Reigns came out that they were getting out of retail, while Relic is a PC developer, I don't see them working all that well abandoning retail.

I'm calling it. Relic is going to become a part of The Creative Assembly, which everyone forgets is part of Sega Europe...and one of their most profitable divisions.

Deep Silver.

That's hard to believe. Volition deserved better.

Well, hopefully the Volition situation works out...

Crazy news. I'm most interested, at this point, to find out these two things;

• What will happen with Vigil? I personally want to see Darksiders III and IV.
• What are the release dates for Metro 2033 and South Park: The Stick of Truth, after the dust settles. Based on SEGA and Creative Assembly's track record, I bet Company of Heroes 2 will be just fine.

Come on, nobody wants Vigil? Seriously? Nobody?

@FakeKisser

It seems like Vigil is dead :(

@chrissedoff said:

I hope Relic continues to make Warhammer 40,000 games. I really want a Dawn of War III.

Definitely want Dawn of War III to see the light of day. Space Marine 2 would be nice as well.

@Milkman said:

Volition to Deep Silver is extremely upsetting. Any word on the WWE license?

There are rumours that EA got the license last week.

@Milkman said:

Volition to Deep Silver is extremely upsetting.

Any word on the WWE license?

I unfortunately see EA grabbing the WWE license, for some strange reason. It seems like one of the "better fits," not exactly in terms of quality, but just of where it should go. Unfortunately.

@ZombiePie said:

@Kidavenger said:

Sega picking up Relic also seems odd, didn't they just explicitly state when Anarchy Reigns came out that they were getting out of retail, while Relic is a PC developer, I don't see them working all that well abandoning retail.

I'm calling it. Relic is going to become a part of The Creative Assembly, which everyone forgets is part of Sega Europe...and one of their most profitable divisions.

Yeah, I imagine they could merge them into a "CA: Warhammer" studio or something, and have their main studios working on TW while Relic sits on the Warhammer and (hopefully) W40k licenses. I dunno, that purchase actually excites me.

@phrosnite said:

lol if Vigil Games gets shuttered.

The loss of hundreds of jobs for a talented game company isn't funny at all to me.

Volition to Deep Silver... u avin a giggle?

I was looking at Deep Silver's arcade recently and to me they seemed to be a German THQ that's just 5 years shorter in it's life cycle (or a German Ubisoft that's 15 years shorter in it's cycle). It's full of licensed products and kids handheld games and then recently a few core games have been added to the collection. Basically they've been building a foundation for years on things you've never heard of and are just now starting to have the resources and desire to put out bigger games focussed on consumers like us. I think Volition is a good pick up as is Metro.

So if THQ Montreal gets folded into Ubi, I can imagine one can hear Patrice's disbelieving laughter echoing through the tundra.

@SirOptimusPrime said:

@ZombiePie said:

@Kidavenger said:

Sega picking up Relic also seems odd, didn't they just explicitly state when Anarchy Reigns came out that they were getting out of retail, while Relic is a PC developer, I don't see them working all that well abandoning retail.

I'm calling it. Relic is going to become a part of The Creative Assembly, which everyone forgets is part of Sega Europe...and one of their most profitable divisions.

Yeah, I imagine they could merge them into a "CA: Warhammer" studio or something, and have their main studios working on TW while Relic sits on the Warhammer and (hopefully) W40k licenses. I dunno, that purchase actually excites me.

It also makes sense seeing how CA is going to be making Warhammer (not 40K) strategy games. Get the studios together, make a cohesive story, collaborate, and make some really good strategy games. This is really good news for Warhammer and Relic is what I'm saying.

That sucks for Vigil. Honestly Darksiders 2 was one of my favorite THQ games, South Park has a good home at Ubisoft I think, hopefully all these games turn out ok. It is a real shame to see THQ go.

@DDinvesting just tweeted some dollar amounts:

THQ auction results: 26M for Relic (Sega), 2.5M for Montreal (Ubisoft), 11M for Evolve (Take-Two), 22.3M for Volition (Koch Media), 500k Homefront (Crytek), 5.8M for Metro (Koch Media), South Park for 3.2M (Ubisoft)

Glad to see Relic and Volition have good homes.

Now, hopefully Red Faction and Saint's Row wind up with Volition. A small part of me will die if that doesn't happen.

And for the love of god, why doesn't Vigil have a home yet. Hell, Get them Nintendo and let them have a crack at the Zelda Series! Or maybe Warner can grab them to feel more like a part of the big boys club. Just someone please!

I still find it hard to believe that Deep Silver got Volition.

@SirOptimusPrime said:

@ZombiePie said:

@Kidavenger said:

Sega picking up Relic also seems odd, didn't they just explicitly state when Anarchy Reigns came out that they were getting out of retail, while Relic is a PC developer, I don't see them working all that well abandoning retail.

I'm calling it. Relic is going to become a part of The Creative Assembly, which everyone forgets is part of Sega Europe...and one of their most profitable divisions.

Yeah, I imagine they could merge them into a "CA: Warhammer" studio or something, and have their main studios working on TW while Relic sits on the Warhammer and (hopefully) W40k licenses. I dunno, that purchase actually excites me.

It also makes sense seeing how CA is going to be making Warhammer (not 40K) strategy games. Get the studios together, make a cohesive story, collaborate, and make some really good strategy games. This is really good news for Warhammer and Relic is what I'm saying.

@phrosnite: Yeah, I think it's hilarious when a bunch of people lose their jobs, too.

So apparently it all sold for $71.3 million. That wasn't much more that Clearlake's initial offer.

Someone needs to pick up Vigil... Hey guys lets start a kickstarter..

What the hell is Evolve? 11 Mio? That's half of Volition and I've never heard of it

psyched to see sega trying to expand and make different types of games

@Abendlaender said:

What the hell is Evolve? 11 Mio? That's half of Volition and I've never heard of it

Evolve was apparently a Turtle Rock game.

I really hope someone saves Vigil. They're a a talented developer and I'd at least like to see one more Darksiders game from them.