It’s Done: THQ’s Assets Have Been Auctioned Off

<p>THQ&&num;8217&semi;s developers and many of its IPs are now heading to new owners&comma; as the details of the auction of its assets have been revealed&period; After filing <a title&equals;"THQ Assets To be Sold &OpenCurlyQuote;Title By Tile’ On January 22nd" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;thqs-assets-sold-title-tile-january-22nd&sol;">for bankruptcy late last year<&sol;a>&comma; THQ will soon be no more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As for which IPs&sol;developers went to which company&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Relic is now with SEGA<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Volition and the <em>Metro<&sol;em> IP are with Koch Media<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><em>Homefront<&sol;em> has gone to Crytek<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>THQ Montreal and <em>South Park&colon; The Stick of Truth<&sol;em> is to go to Ubisoft<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Take-2 Interactive now has the yet-to-be announced <em>Evolve<&sol;em><&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>You may have noticed a lack of <em>Darksiders<&sol;em>&sol;Vigil news&comma; and that is because neither was a part of the sale agreement and are still included in the Chapter 11 case&period; THQ has stated that they will try their hardest to find appropriate buyers&comma; but also makes no solid promises&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All this news comes from a letter sent out to THQ employees by CEO Brian Farrel and President Jason Rubin &lpar;can be found&comma; in full&comma; over at <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5978429&sol;this-is-the-letter-that-thq-sent-to-employees-today">Kotaku<&sol;a>&rpar; in which the sale&comma; current employment and a personal note to the employees regarding their work over the years are all discussed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 13px&semi;">The work that you all have done as part of the THQ family is imaginative&comma; creative&comma;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>artistic and highly valued by our loyal gamers&period; We are proud of what we have<br &sol;>&NewLine;accomplished despite today&&num;8217&semi;s outcome&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It has been our privilege to work alongside the entire THQ team&period; While the company<br &sol;>&NewLine;will cease to exist&comma; we are heartened that the majority of our studios and games will<br &sol;>&NewLine;continue under new ownership&period; We were hoping that the entire company would remain<br &sol;>&NewLine;intact&comma; but we expect to hear good news from each of the separate entities that will be<br &sol;>&NewLine;operating as part of new organizations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For those THQ employees who are part of entities that are not included in the sale&comma; we<br &sol;>&NewLine;are confident that the talent you have displayed as part of THQ will be recognized as you<br &sol;>&NewLine;take the next steps in your career&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thank you all for your dedication and for sharing your talent with the THQ team&period; We<br &sol;>&NewLine;wish you the best of luck and hope you will keep in touch&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; over on Twitter&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;search&quest;q&equals;&percnt;23THQjobs&amp&semi;src&equals;hash">the hashtag &num;THQJobs<&sol;a> is being used by former THQ employees looking for work and the many studios showing support by revealing the fact that they&&num;8217&semi;re hiring&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;