Just who I was wanting! Thanks for clarifying actually
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy is a pretty awesome deal. It lets companies continue to operate while they look for someone to get them out of trouble. It looks like THQ isn't going to have its development and projects affected by the accounting stuff now, which means the delay on game releases should be minimal at best.
The firm that's showed interest in buying the assets is a good one too, with a large portfolio.
It should give THQ a little breathing space. Though I'd also expect one or two more casualties, it looks like the actual brand of THQ will survive at this stage, relatively intact.
Just who I was wanting! Thanks for clarifying actually
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy is a pretty awesome deal. It lets companies continue to operate while they look for someone to get them out of trouble. It looks like THQ isn't going to have its development and projects affected by the accounting stuff now, which means the delay on game releases should be minimal at best.
The firm that's showed interest in buying the assets is a good one too, with a large portfolio.
It should give THQ a little breathing space. Though I'd also expect one or two more casualties, it looks like the actual brand of THQ will survive at this stage, relatively intact.
Good to hear. I hope THQ keeps at the path they're at, not releasing the same game every year like the other AAA publishers.
So long as that means more Dawn of War from a competant developer, then it's all good.
Actually I think THQ lost the license for Warhammer.
An entirely different developer/ publisher is in the process of making an official Warhammer game for iOS. So, either THQ didn't have exclusive rights to the license (unlikely) or Games Workshop (the owners of Warhammer) decided to give the license out elsewhere.
Given there hasn't been a proper tabletop Warhammer game in years, I am not surprised if the latter is the case.
So long as that means more Dawn of War from a competant developer, then it's all good.
Actually I think THQ lost the license for Warhammer.
An entirely different developer/ publisher is in the process of making an official Warhammer game for iOS. So, either THQ didn't have exclusive rights to the license (unlikely) or Games Workshop (the owners of Warhammer) decided to give the license out elsewhere.
Given there hasn't been a proper tabletop Warhammer game in years, I am not surprised if the latter is the case.
I might be wrong on this but doesnt EA have the rights to Warhammer video games? I know they made that god awful MMO a few years ago based on Warhammer.
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So long as that means more Dawn of War from a competant developer, then it's all good.
Actually I think THQ lost the license for Warhammer.
An entirely different developer/ publisher is in the process of making an official Warhammer game for iOS. So, either THQ didn't have exclusive rights to the license (unlikely) or Games Workshop (the owners of Warhammer) decided to give the license out elsewhere.
Given there hasn't been a proper tabletop Warhammer game in years, I am not surprised if the latter is the case.
I might be wrong on this but doesnt EA have the rights to Warhammer video games? I know they made that god awful MMO a few years ago based on Warhammer.
That was EA-published? I thought THQ published that one.
Anyway, a quick Google search makes me suspect that The Games Workshop doesn't license the Warhammer franchise exclusively. SEGA actually has a license to make a Warhammer game through The Creative Assembly: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/12/total-war-developer-get...
Aren't Warhammer and 40k two separate entities? I know THQ publishes most (if not all, well in recent years) 40k games. And according to Wikipedia, EA did publish the Warhammer MMO
Yeah it was developed by Mythic as EA merged or bought out or whatever it was Mythic so therefore EA published it.
Looking deeper it looks like Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes which is an online battle arena is also done by Mythic/EA. So I am guessing that EA has the Warhammer Online rights.
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Aren't Warhammer and 40k two separate entities? I know THQ publishes most (if not all, well in recent years) 40k games. And according to Wikipedia, EA did publish the Warhammer MMO
edit: THQ has published every 40k game since 2003
Warhammer and 40K are owned by the same company. It's entirely possible that they licensed 40K to THQ and Warhammer to other publishers/ developers, yes.
Black Hole seems to have the rights to that game since it was published by two separate publishers.
It's possible that no one has exclusive rights to the general Warhammer license, but THQ inked an exclusive deal for 40K. I don't see any indication that that exclusive arrangement is still in effect, however.
Ok found something from Wikipedia which sites Mythics own site as a source
Games Workshop was approached by Mythic Entertainment, who were interested in acquiring the license and starting a new project from scratch. A long-standing relationship between several Games Workshop managers and the CEO of Mythic Mark Jacobs ensured that a deal was quickly reached. The Warhammer Online license was acquired by Mythic on May 18, 2005. Mythic would soon cancel its original follow-up project Imperator Online after gaining the Warhammer License.[17]
So it looks like that when EA got Mythic they got the Warhammer Online license. So all Warhammer Online rights is owned by EA it looks like.
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Will this affect the Spongebob, Madagascar and Dinsey Pirncess games?
Heck, they realy released al huge amount of kids games. It would be wrong to say they saturated the maket of kids games. Mybe if they made all tipes of games, but the adult ones came each large group of months. If you investigate, in 2013 they were only anounced South Par, Metro: Last Light and some games i cant remember after they lost Devil's Third (Next Duke Nukem Forever) and inSANE (i watched Pan's LAbyrith, that makes me interested in a game by Guillermo del Toro).
It seems that the HUmble THQ Bundle didnt go so well after all.
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