THQ Nordic Acquires Deep Silver’s Parent Company

<p>THQ Nordic has been quietly making waves in the video game industry lately&period; Now&comma; it appears THQ Nordic has acquired Deep Silver&&num;8217&semi;s parent company Koch Media&period; The deal was worth &dollar;121 million Euros or &dollar;149 million USD&period; With the acquisition&comma; THQ Nordic now adds the <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Homefront<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Dead Island<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Metro<&sol;em> series&period; The acquisition also grows the company to about 1&comma;600 employees across 36 studios through in-house and beyond&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When THQ filed for bankruptcy in 2012&comma; they auctioned off all their major IPs&period; Since then&comma; Koch Media acquired the <em>Metro<&sol;em> series as well as <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row<&sol;em> and it&&num;8217&semi;s developer Volition at the auction&period; Koch Media then bought the <em>Homefront<&sol;em> IP from Crytek&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nordic Games were making moves of their own buying up some of THQ&&num;8217&semi;s old IPs including the <em>Darksiders<&sol;em> series&period; They eventually obtain the &&num;8220&semi;THQ&&num;8221&semi; trademark and change their name from Nordic Games to THQ Nordic&period; Which leads us to today where we have a bit of a reunion with games like <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row<&sol;em> and Metro returning to THQ in a way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the acquisition of Koch Media&comma; THQ Nordic has a combined 50 game projects in development&period; Among them is a new Darksiders&comma; as well as <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;fade-to-silence-announced&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Fade To Silence<&sol;a>&comma; which was announced at the Game Awards in December&period; This might not impact the development of <em>Metro Exodus<&sol;em>&comma; which was just announced at E3 last year&period; However&comma; it is unknown how this will affect the development of <em>Dead Island 2<&sol;em>&comma; which has been in development purgatory for the last three and a half years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As for <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row<&sol;em>&&num;8230&semi; Well&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re still going to have to wait on that one&period; Volition opted to start a new IP in <em>Agents of Mayhem<&sol;em> rather than making a fifth chapter in the Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row franchise&period; With THQ Nordic now owning the rights to <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row<&sol;em> and the publisher Deep Silver&comma; could we see a <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row V<&sol;em> in the future&quest; Only time can tell&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What do you think of THQ Nordic buying Koch media&comma; gamers&quest; Do you want to see another Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row out of it&quest; Let us know in the comment section below and stay tuned to Bago Games for all your gaming news&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon;<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thqnordic-investors&period;com&sol;en&sol;regulatory-press-releases&sol;&quest;releaseId&equals;2819265" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">THQ Nordic <&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;