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The executive director of Platinum Games has said he would love to buy the Darksiders IP from THQ. The Vigil Games-developed IP is currently still up for grabs after no companies made a bid for the studio or franchise in yesterday’s THQ auction. Taking toTwitter, as spotted byPolygon, Atsushi Inaba …

Publisher takes on Company of Heroes IP and R&D tech

Darksiders developer working on 'unique' new IP named Crawler

Ubisoft has officially confirmed its acquisition of THQ Montreal. With it comes the publishing rights to the Obsidian-developed RPG South Park: The Stick of Truth as well as a new, yet-to-be announced IP in development” at the former THQ studio. This deal adds experienced developers to our internal creative teams …

Sale of old IP such as Red Faction and De Blob to take place in the coming weeks

The WWE franchise will continue, despite the liquidation of publisher THQ. The WWE licence was not up for sale as part of THQ’s auction last night and was returned to WWE. A tweet from the official WWE Games Twitter feed said: "We don’t have any details to share yet, but …

Executive director Atsushi Inaba expresses interest in franchise as Vigil's future remains in doubt

Ubisoft has confirmed that new IP 1666 was part of the firm’s $2.5m acquisition of THQ Montreal. The mysterious new IP is predicted to be a historical story – perhaps based around the Great Fire of London – but little is known about the title. It was being headed-up by …

Darksiders developer not picked up as publisher assets sold off

Sega, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Crytek and Koch Media purchase studios and IP after bidding war