Been a long time since I’ve posted on the forum, but I figure this is big enough news to say something.
THQ declared bankruptcy yesterday, and as of that, both Volition, and 4A Games were sold to Deep Silver/Koch Entertainment; as well as Relic Entertainment being sold to SEGA. Platinum Games is also looking to buy Vigil Games, so it looks like most of the games will live on, but it sucks to see all this happen.
Now we know why they decided to give away all their games for nothing.
Yeah, seems like the Humble THQ Bundle was a last-ditch effort to bring in some money so they wouldn’t have to declare bankruptcy, with their CEO buying it for $11,000 and it wasn’t enough.
It’s too bad, but they still made pretty stupid decisions before they closed a little after the bundle, like forcing people to get the LE of metro last light to have access to ranger difficulty.
It would have become DLC later. Ranger mode in Metro 2033 was DLC as well.
Still, something like that shouldn’t be DLC
THQ have made some pretty piss poor decisions in recent years, not to say this bankruptcy isn’t sad.
But really, they have churned out some shit products at times, and their main sellers never get enough advertising. The only recent game of theirs I remember getting decent attention was Saints Row 3, and that was pretty lackluster in comparison to the second.
I think people expect to be able to throw out anything and make a profit, which clearly isn’t the case.
Sad to see their subsidiaries go to others, especially SEGA. SEGA haven’t put out a decent game in years, although recent acquisitions might change that I suppose.
I still can’t play Metro 2033 because the mouse sensitivity left to right is 200x faster than up and down.
Works well for me, must be a problem on ur side.
I know what the problem is, but there’s no point of playing in on one screen when I got three. 
I even tried an xbox 360 controller, same shit. 
And I’m not getting a 200$ Razer mouse just to play one game properly.
If you’re going to bitch about Metro 2033, bitch about the ragdoll physics, or lack thereof.
PC gamers are fucking stupid.
no, sersoft is fucking stupid
So who kept the rights to Darksiders?
No one. It’s still up for sale.
Aww, I hope it gets picked up, by a good company.
Sega puts out a decent title whenever something emerges from Creative Assembly’s cooking pot.
Not terribly happy about Relic going to Sega, their quality testing has been dire on the Total War series, and they made some dumb decisions around Aliens vs Predator 3. I don’t have any other experience with the company after the 16-bit period though, so maybe they’re amazing in every other respect…
“Valve goes hack and slash” :fffuuu::fffuuu::fffuuu:
So Relic have gone to Sega?
Who got the WH40k rights?
And on that note, Dark Millenium 40k is totally scrapped. THQ said it was going to be made into a single player (rather than the intended MMO), but apparently all the staff were sacked weeks before that announcement was made and nothing has happened to the project since.
Sega got all of Relic’s franchises in the deal, including Dawn of War. I’m not sure if this includes exclusive rights to Warhammer 40k, though it is interesting to note that Sega has teams working on Warhammer fantasy material already (including the drool-inducing prospect of Creative Assembly developing a Total Warhammer). I’m sure they’d love to have Games Workshop’s entire oevre in-house.
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