[NEWS] THQ Officially Finished, Auction Results In

Mat Paget

UPDATE: 2K Games has picked up the WWE license.

The auctioning off of THQ’s properties is now finished, and although there are still some studios and properties not accounted for, Kotaku has recieved the results of said auction via an email sent to all THQ employees from ex-CEO Jason Rubin. DD Investing has also tweeted the supposed amounts of money that were traded in return for some of the properties auctioned off.

The properties, new owners, and money exchanged are listed below.

• THQ Montreal and the publishing rights to South Park: The Stick of Truth have gone to Ubisoft for the sum of $2.5M and $3.2M respectively. 
• Relic Entertainment, developer of the Company of Heroes franchise, was purchased by SEGA for the grand price of $26M.
• Saints Row developer Volition and the Metro franchise were bought by Koch Media, parent company of Dead Island publisher Deep Silver, for $22.3M and $5.8M. And I’m super bummed that Volition won’t be making Saints Row 4 for WB Interactive (imagine the possibilities!).
• The Homefront franchise was purchased by Crytek, developer of the Crysis series, for a comparably small $500K.
• New property Evolve was purchased by Take Two Interactive for $11M.

Unfortunately, Darksiders developer Vigil was not purchased. More properties were left unsold, including the WWE license.

We will keep you updated on this story as it progresses.