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THQ auction over, Relic goes to SEGA [Update]
[Update: Kotaku has reposted a staff letter from THQ president Jason Rubin, saying that Koch Media (owner of Deep Silver) bought Volition and the Metro IP, Crytek bought Homefront, Take 2 bought Evolve, and Ubisoft took Montreal and South Park: The Stick of Truth. Update 2: DD Investing has provided the sale prices for everything. $500k for Homefront, $5.8m for Metro, $3.2m for South Park, $26m for Relic, $2.5m for Montreal, $11m for Evolve, $22.3m for Volition.] According to pretty much everybody Destructoid knows who worked for THQ, the company's post-bankruptcy auction is over and people are looking for work. There are a lot of unsubstantiated reports going around right now, so we'll focus on what we do know and update with fresh news when it's confirmed. Relic Entertainment developer Kyle Berndt revealed the first solid bit of news, announcing his move to SEGA. Relic, of course, has had a history of working on Warhammer 40,000 games, and with SEGA recently getting snug with Games Workshop, it's in a pretty good position right now. Along with the auction results comes word of unemployment, including a few excellent individuals I myself have had the pleasure of working with. A Twitter hashtag -- #THQJobs -- reveals those who lost their jobs, and the vocal support from everybody else. Anything else right now appears to be hearsay, but until people actually related to the affected studios and publisher start talking, we'll leave those off the board for now. At the moment, nothing concrete has been revealed concerning the fate of any of the games. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
3:30 PM on 05.20.2013 Former EA CEO calls for gamer-centric focus for next-genIn a guest post on Kotaku, former Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has shared his thoughts on what Microsoft and Sony need to do (or not do, as it were) to succeed with their upcoming consoles. In addition to meeting dema...
6:30 PM on 05.17.2013 EA Sports dev says 'The Wii U is crap'We already knew that EA wasn't working on any Wii U games, but we weren't made privy to the exact reasons for that decision. Other than the puzzling report that EA's Frostbite 2 doesn't test well on the console (despite the f...
5:15 PM on 05.16.2013 EA has zero Wii U games in developmentMadden is skipping the Wii U this year, marking the first time since 1991 that a Nintendo console missed out on a new Madden. And the Frostbite 3 engine will not be adapted for the Wii U, eliminating the possibility that Batt...
1:15 PM on 05.16.2013 Hardcore pornography CONFIRMED for Next XboxSugarDVD, purveyor of such fine films as What An Asshole and Hairy Asian Schoolgirls Masturbate, has confirmed it'll be bringing its adult entertainment streaming services to Microsoft's next-generation Xbox. The servic...
11:00 AM on 05.16.2013 Study claims piracy isn't as bad as publishers tell youThe Electronic Software Association will tell you piracy is so bad, 10 million nefarious downloads of 200 games can happen in a single month. According to an independent study, the ESA might be overestimating by a c...
9:30 PM on 05.15.2013 Nintendo is claiming ownership of Let's Play videosThe last time we heard about a major game publisher slapping the wrists of innocent YouTube channel operators, it was SEGA forcing the removal of videos that so much as breathed word of the Shining Force series. Whatever reas...
6:51 PM on 05.15.2013 EA will be killing off the Online PassElectronic Arts has today declared that it will be discontinuing use of its controversial (read: shitty) online pass system, no longer requiring an access code to unlock features. The scheme, put in place to make money off us...
6:30 PM on 05.15.2013 These are the 20 best-selling brands from this gen[Update: Telltale is mistakenly credited for the LEGO games in the source report, but it should be Traveller's Tales.] French game studio Ubisoft released its fiscal year 2013 earnings earlier today, trumpeting its tidy profi...
2:15 PM on 05.15.2013 Ubi's production of 1666 halted after firing of DésiletsPatrice Désilets says he was fired. Ubisoft says that good faith discussions led to a mutual departure. It's unclear how Désilets and Ubisoft split paths, but it is clear that new chapters are being ad...
1:00 PM on 05.15.2013 Pachter: Wii U sales continue to sink as Wii outsells itIndustry analyst Michael "Veggie Kisses" Pachter has forecast even more troubling times ahead for Nintendo and the pauvre Wii U, estimating a lamentable sale of 55,000 units in the past month. This would mean a drop in monthl...
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