Not surprised about Vigil one bit, Darksiders is a very mediocre series. Also interesting to note that Sega outbid Zenimax for Relic by about 300 thousand dollars, which is really close.
@WinterSnowblind: Nooooooooooo,please no, god no.I hope to every conceivable diety that EA doesn't get their hands on WWE.I want someone who can push the franchise and improve it not milk it.
This post made me so happy as I love Dead Island and so far I cant wait to see their future with the saints row franchise.. Metro just needs to come out awesome for last light and I can see it finishing there. On another note, Someone needs to buy Vigil games Niao so I can enjoy more darksiders.
So the Auction brought in an additional 11.3 million dollars over the $60 million Clearlake offer for everything, and THQ still has some IP's to sell off later, like Darksiders which might bring more money to pay down debts with.
I wouldn't mind Deep Silver acquiring the Saints Row franchise considering the "bad and crazy" publicity they been showing. With the zombie bust and the hidden code for the Feminist Whore perk. It just shows how far their willing to push certain boundaries just like Rockstar and GTA. And that could fit with SR with its fucked up weapons and lewd activities.
Plus if SR4 becomes a success, maybe we might been seeing Red Faction in the future. (I don't know if Red Faction would come with Volition or Koch would need to buy the ip for it)
I also would like to see if South Park is going to get an Assasins Creed costume with Uplay or be able to customize the main character's head into a French Canadian like Terrance and Phillip. :)
What a weird company to pick up saint's row and metro. I'm assuming Crytek assumed the Homefront rights through "cost of development" not being paid to them.
Not sure how I feel about Deep Silver getting Saints Row. Also surprised that Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo didn't make a move considering we are moving back into a part of the console cycle where first party games become much more important.
Volition and Saint's Row are still together, and that's all that matters. As long as they have any kind of budget and are allowed to keep full staff, I'm happy. Them acquiring Metro worries me, though. I really hope Last Light comes out, instead of being scrapped
@WarlockEngineerMoreDakka: WOW I mean Darksiders 2 was not the best game but that world another company could have done really good with that world... especially Bethesda!
Oh great one of the few studios still making great rts games, hell games set in the 40k universe that are actually good is now owned by the company responsible for 30 shitty sonic games. Great, fucking fantastic. *kills self*
Oh great one of the few studios still making great rts games, hell games set in the 40k universe that are actually good is now owned by the company responsible for 30 shitty sonic games. Great, fucking fantastic. *kills self*
ha wow you are uninformed.
SEGA owns Creative Assembly, one of the other few great strategy devs, and it has worked out fantastically... do you know about this? Do you know CA is making a Warhammer fantasy game right now?
Unfortunately, I am reading now that Homeworld is still owned by THQ... lets hope SEGA buys that too.
@big_jon said:
@ArtisanBreads said:
@big_jon said:
Sega got relic?! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. This is probably the best possible outcome.
I've been throwing it out there since THQ was going under as a dream and I can't believe it actually worked out.
Excellent job Alex. Quick Question on the Homefront side. WAs Crytek developing the game and THQ publishing? Also What happens to Saints Row The Fourth.
Most of the sales seem like decent enough fits. Sega seems like a good fit for Relic, Crytek was working on Homefront 2 already, so it's no surprise that they are buying it and Ubisoft should handle South Park fairly well, as long as they don't add their crappy DRM to the PC version. As for Saints Row and Metro? Well, I think Saints Row should be fine as long as Volition are still together, I'm not sure on what kind of budget they will be given though. I'm not sure about Metro, but I'm sure it will turn out fine as well. 2K make great sports games, so WWE will ft nice in their line up.
As for Vigil and Darksiders? Man, that's terrible they didn't get picked up. I haven't played Darksiders 2, but the original Darksiders was great. Hopefully a lot of the staff get hired by Platinum, and they buy the IP as hinted at. Glad to see Platinum reaching out.
In the end though, I'm really sad to see THQ go. I wish the best to everyone who is now jobless, and hope that they find employment soon.
"Crytek has purchased the rights to the Homefront franchise for some reason." You show me that one line, alone without context, and I'd know that Alex wrote it. Man, even straightforward reports like this are made great when he writes them.
Found a link to this document over at RPS. It shows who the second place bidders where. Interesting where some of these games could have went if they had just bid a few hundred thousand more. It looks like Ubisoft came close to buying almost everything outright, and that Relic almost went to Zenimax but they got out bit by Sega for $300k
Wow, Koch Media was definitely not the company I thought would take Saints Row, and at such a low price too. I was prepared to hear about some epic bidding war between Activsion, Ubisoft and EA.
Homefront sorta makes sense for Crytek. It was a cheap buy, and now they have a potential off-year franchise to differentiate themselves from just Crysis.
That Vigil hasn't been bought yet isn't surprising; Darksiders 2 wasn't that great of a seller, although Platnum potentially taking the franchise may be interesting. You'd think they wouldn't since they already have Bayonetta, but if they can make it work, why not? I just hope they don't forget the Zelda/RPG elements of the series and go all action.
Not sure why people are excited about Platinum and Darksiders. It won't even be a Darksiders game anymore if Platinum works on it. Also just seems like a waste of money.
Hmm... interesting news on Vigil (can read past comments for it but it pertains to this speculation) I don't want them devs to be out of a job, though. I mean, cool if Darksiders gets bought but here's hoping Vigil comes out of this alive. Yikes. I was thinking Nintendo would be a good fit as well, but they are not known for Mature games really (does metroid really count? Maybe.) and are oft not in the market for buying up other developers. Nintendo is extremely doubtful but would make sense.
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