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Andrew Yoon posted a new article,
THQ to auction off remaining franchises, including Darksiders, Red Faction, and Homeworld
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THQ has announced plans to sell off its remaining IP in an auction to end by May.
Feb 26, 2013 5:15pm PST
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Andrew Yoon posted a new article,
THQ to auction off remaining franchises, including Darksiders, Red Faction, and Homeworld
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THQ has announced plans to sell off its remaining IP in an auction to end by May.
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Someone has to pickup Darksiders it must live on :( I wonder if the team already has new jobs a long time...
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valcan_s
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Someone has to pick up Homeworld!
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Haku-Jin
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It better go back into the hands of relic.
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OutlawSundown
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I'm not even sure anyone who worked on Homeworld 2 is left at the company. The culture has also shifted c...
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RaptorII
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I think they still have more than enough talent to do another game. It's better off with them than either...
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OutlawSundown
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I seriously doubt SEGA gives a shit about it, so even if they picked it up, they would probably still jus...
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RaptorII
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Sega happily cranks out TW games don't see why not.
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OutlawSundown
Resurrecting a dead franchise is riskier than churning out yearly sequels and expansions to a living one....
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RaptorII
There was an indiegogo to acquire it http://www.indiegogo.com/save-homeworld
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thejay247
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I wouldn't complain if someone grabbed it just to prevent damage to the IP, though I would prefer if they...
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RaptorII
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Also, Homeworld: Cataclysm isn't included in the auction... I wonder what happened to that?
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RaptorII
Maybe it's just rolled in with
Homeworld
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Red Faction: Guerrilla
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Armag
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ATimson
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fake open source thing?
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Lucy Labia
They offered the source to teams with a plan and evidence they could do something with it, and then were ...
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RaptorII
Wouldn't a modern combat FPS set in the Homeworld universe be awesome!? With a streamlined cinematic stor
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dumb.
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I hope Platinum goes after it like previously hinted.
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Sideways Bob
Yeah they be rad new owner, the only beef I had was 2 was so perfect minus maybe the engine I am not sure...
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valcan_s
I think Platinum games picked up a lot of Vigil staff.
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Derringer
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Somebody buy Red Faction and turn it back into a first person shooter! The first two games were great!
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Mr Milquetoast
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Blasting fuckers through the wall with the railgun/x-ray thing was fucking great. Same with blasting thr...
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MacemanInTW
It really sucked when the enemies had it though. Instadead through a wall or closed door sucks.
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Arcanum
me and my friends had a blast with the first game at LANs, rail drivers were hilarious/awesome
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JohnathanDoe
*record scratch* First was good, but second? No nop nopooe
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shirif
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I want a true sequel to RF:G. Then again if they included destruction in SR4 I'd be even more excited.
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Turd Ferguson
This so hard. With physx and shit.
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(mojo)
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SR4... with... destroyable buildings.... Excuse me, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY
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Toraz Chryx
And if you destroy a building important to a mission it changes to a different location or you change the...
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thrallie200
This. THIS! I am playing Space Asshole right now and want MORE SPACE ASSHOLE NEXTGEN LEVEL!
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General Balsaga
They should of never left the mines..
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Vincenoir
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What a mess. Relic originally published Homeworld 1 & 2 through Sierra. Relic was acquired by THQ, Sierr...
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CoreContingency
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Most importantly, who has Homeworld now?
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VoodooThursday
No one yet, it's up for grabs. The link at the bottom has a full breakdown. http://www.businesswire.com/n...
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drhazard
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I hope crytek buys the IP for darksiders. They hired most of vigil's former staff, it would be perfect.
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creeping-death
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Except for the whole free-to-play route they have multiple times said they are going. I know I don't wan...
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DragonSire
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Cevat Yerli or whatever his name is likes to shoot his mouth off. I wouldn't take that too seriously unt...
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Arcanum
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They've already announced Warface: http://www.crytek.com/games/warface/overview
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azshack
True, I had forgotten about that. On the other hand, Cevat Yerli does tend to make extreme statements wh...
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Arcanum
Pay to play is still a perfectly viable business model, did crytek state they're going F2P exclusive or s...
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creeping-death
Don't think they'd put free to play for a single player game though
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ClawHammR
Was thinking that also, really hope it goes back to them. Double fine will likely pick up their games' li...
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ClawHammR
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I was pretty sure that Crytek said they had no interest in Darksiders :(
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Derringer
Maybe it's like in Quantum of Solace when the CIA douche is like "lol no interest in that badguy" and it ...
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the_burd
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They did, they said they want them doing something new and awesome. I'm okay with that.
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node
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I am both okay and disappointed with that. I loved Darksiders 1 and 2.
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Derringer
Got the first one in a Steam sale, still haven't played it. Damn backlogs :[
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Mr. Goodwrench
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Wtf, no one has said they wanted Homeworld to get bought? I hope Sega buys it.
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Mecha Tofu Pirate
The first round of sales was for larger serial IP and games that were close to completing development so ...
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DrWaffles
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...and they give it to Gearbox to develop Homeworld 3.
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phate81
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Mecha Tofu Pirate
"...who then out-souced all development to a third party while shilling funding from Sega intended for Ho...
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NickDelios
After Colonial Marines, I'd be surprised to see GearBox develop anything for Sega ever again. Creati...
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asianwaste
Dunno, the first two sold poorly despite being great games
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creeping-death
I'd buy most of them for a dollar.
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shirif
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The most important question here is
Saints Row
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creeping-death
Koch Media picked up Volition, and it is assumed that also included the rights to Saints Row. No idea why...
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CoreContingency
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wasn't there a kickstarter to acquire Homeworld IP ?!!
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hanged_man
They only got pledges for ~25% of what they wanted.
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givemesnacks
A kickstarter to try to buy something at auction would be retarded.
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Beady
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WHATS HAPPENING TO THE 40k MMO LICENSE/ASSETS ?!?!?!
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Disarray
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Went to Sega, I thought?
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Mad Brahmin Disease
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relic went to sega, and with them I'm assuming went the rights to the Dawn of War franchise. Vigil ha...
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Disarray
SPICE MUHREEEEEEEN!!!
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Mad Brahmin Disease
GEARBOX, STAY THE FUCK AWAY!
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Kojak2000
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IIRC, someone single handedly figured out the license problems with System Shock 2. Can someone please do...
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VoodooThursday
Honestly, I'd be happy if someone just got the rights to put it on GOG. Still haven't played HW2 yet :/
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Mister Groin