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  • Nordic Games Swoops In And Purchases Darksiders, Red Faction, More.

    Photo courtesy froblog.mine.nu
    Photo courtesy froblog.mine.nu

    Talk about a freaking deal! Relative unknown Nordic Games acquired almost all of the remaining THQ franchises today for the sum of $4.9 million. That includes over 150 titles including the franchises Darksiders, Red Faction and Destroy All Humans. Only two other titles (Homeworld and Drawn to Life) were purchased by other companies (Gearbox and 505 Games respectively).

    Talk about a fire sale. I knew all those titles were up for grabs, but I did not expect an unknown company to just buy them all up and for only $5 million! But there is a big, bright, shining upside to this.

    Please God, let there be more Destroy All Humans!!!

  • New Xbox Bundle Combines Batman With Darksiders

     

    Photo courtesy joystiq.com
    Photo courtesy joystiq.com

    Microsoft is releasing a new bundle for the Xbox 360 that will combine a 250 GB hard drive with Batman: Arkham City and Darksiders 2. The Spring Value Bundle will costs $299.99 and is available now at all retailers.

    Along with the games you will also receive a free month of Xbox Live.

  • THQ Officially No More, Assets Sold, Employees Laid Off

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    One of the saddest episodes in gaming is now done. THQ sold off their assets to other developers and publishers and anyone who did not work for one of the companies sold are being laid off. For the past year THQ has been limping along and filed for bankruptcy last month. A few weeks ago it was announced that an auction would be held to sell off THQ’s studios and intellectual properties. Here is the rundown of what we know so far.

    • Koch Media (Deep Silver) has purchased Volition, developers of the Saint’s Row franchise. They have also gotten the rights to the Metro franchise. Metro: Last Light was due for release this year.
    • Sega is getting Relic who developed Warhammer 40K and Company of Heroes.
    • Take Two has purchased Evolve, a codename project from Turtle Rock Studios.
    • Crytek purchaed the rights to the Homefront series.
    • Ubisoft will get the rights to South Park: The Stick of Truth and the THQ Montreal studio who are making the game 1666 from the creator of Assassin’s Creed.

    Some properties like Darksiders (and studio Vigil) and the WWE franchise are still up in the air as of this writing. We will update as more is known.

  • THQ Offers Another Massive Game Sale

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    In the wake of THQ’s “fire auction” sale on Tuesday in which all of the companies developers and game properties will be sold off to the highest bidder, the company has a huge sale going on Amazon.com. For just $25 you will get an incredible 19 games to download including Darksiders 1&2, Homefront, Metro 2033 and more.

    Seeing a good company like THQ dissolve this week is certainly a sad episode in gaming (damn UDraw) and seeing all the great games on this sale list shows how good of a lineup the company had. So go pick up this bundle because I doubt you will find a better $25 to spend on games.

    Check out the list of games you will get for only 25 bucks.

    1.Company of Heroes – Tales of Valor
    2. Company of Heroes Game of the Year
    3. Darksiders II
    4. Darksiders
    5. Homefront
    6. MX vs ATV Reflex
    7. Metro 2033
    8. Nexuiz
    9. Red Faction Armageddon
    10. Red Faction Guerrilla
    11. Saints Row 2
    12. Saints Row: The Third
    13. Supreme Commander
    14. Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
    15. Titan Quest Gold
    16. Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II – Gold Edition
    17. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
    18. Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War Gold
    19. Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II Retribution

     

  • Here Is Your Official Wii U Launch Lineup.

    24 Titles Announced For Day One Of Nintendo’s New Console.

     

     

    For everyone that was lucky enough to get a Wii U pre-ordered a few weeks back the only question left was which games would be available on launch day so you could decide what you want to pick up with your system. Today Nintendo announced a 24 title lineup that has a little bit of everything for everybody. From Mario to Call of Duty to Tekken, Nintendo seems to have all the different age groups and game types covered for the November 18th launch.

    Take a look at the list below and let us know what games will you be picking up when you pick up your Wii U.

     

    • Nintendo Land
    • New Super Mario Bros. U
    • Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition
    • 007 Legends
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
    • FIFA 13
    • Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge
    • Zombi U
    • Skylanders Giants
    • Assassin’s Creed 3
    • Game Party Champions
    • Just Dance 4
    • Scribblenauts Unlimited
    • ESPN Sports Connection
    • Transformers Prime
    • Wipeout 3
    • Sonic and All-Stars Racing
    • Epic Mickey 2
    • Darksiders 2
    • Warriors Orichi 3 Hyper
    • Sing Party
    • Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition
    • Rabbids Land
    • Your Shape 2013
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