as long as EA isn't the highest bidder =)

old new is old, old old news is still old

Whoever wins, we lose.

So sad. :-(

Honestly, of all the big companies that would be bidding on THQ, I'd be HAPPY if it was Ubi that got the big IPs. I don't like UPlay. And if they go back to their always on drm, which they finally realized was a failure, I'd definately think differently. But at the moment, they aren't using that drm scheme, and the titles they've been putting out have been mostly quality. And they aren't EA, Capcom, Or ActiBlizz.

Sega - Company of Heroes ,
Crytek - Homefront

http://smacktalks.org/news/article.php?article=7113

So when can we expect more super cheap THQ games on Steam

Looks like Ubisoft got South Park: The Stick of Truth and SEGA got full Relic studio. Oh, and i heard that Dees Silver (holy shit where they got money) are taking Volition

The auction hearing time got shifted another 6 hours, to 3pm Eastern because bidding was still active when it was supposed to close. Neogaf has a thread going with info and updates.

Sega would be a good match with Relic (I think), Crytek and Homefront is a no-brainer because they are working on the sequel. The Ubisoft + South Park match could still run into trouble because South Park Studios is suing THQ now for breach of contract so the rights for that game may not actually even be available when it is all said and done. Deep Silver's parent company (Koch Media) is said to have won the publisher rights to Turtle Rock's new game, and they along with Warner Brothers, EA, and Ubisoft are all said to be bidding heavily on different parts and franchises at this point.

I am most interested to see what happens with the DoW franchises since there are licensing contracts in the way there, and also what happens with Volition because I want Saints Row to continue to be as awesome as it has been and I also want Red Faction to come back closer to the originals or Guerrilla after THQ ran it into the ground with Armageddon.

As sad as this all seems, it's pretty interesting to read up on

So, the auction has ended and THQ assets were broken up to individual bidders. We should be hearing more in about two hours or so.

Relic goes to SEGA! HELL YEAH!

I wonder if any IP went separate ways with a studio that actually originally developed it. Not in the know much, news articles should enlighten me in that regard though, I hope

and Vigil apparently is taken by take 2

its official...
sucks people lost their jobs.....

Sega agreed to purchase Relic
Koch Media agreed to purchase Volition and Metro
Crytek agreed to purchase Homefront
Take 2 agreed to purchase Evolve (Turtle Rock's new game)
Ubisoft agreed to purchase THQ Montreal and South Park
Vigil was not sold. Everyone who was an employee of an entity that was not included in the sale was fired.

Oh no Ubisoft buyed South Park i hope that means not I have to install Uplay to play it

Twitter Ubisoft: We officially confirm the acquisition of THQ Montreal as well as the publishing rights for South Park: The Stick of Truth.

ubisoft got South Park... And I wanted to buy this game :/