THQ Officially Dead

The company's assets have been divided and auctioned off to the highest bidder.

The makers of the Darksiders games (Vigil Games) did not feature in the auction.. it's expected the studio will be forced to close unless a new publisher picks them. It's also rumored that the WWE license has been picked up by 2K Sports!

Confirmed purchases below.

Relic Entertainment
Makers of Company of Heroes, UFO
Winning bidder: Sega, $26.6 million.

THQ Montreal
Makers of 1666 and Underdog, titles under development.
Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $2.5 million

South Park (license)
South Park: The Stick of Truth is due for release March 5.
Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $3,265,306

Evolve
(title in development at Turtle Rock Studios)
Winning bidder: Take-Two Interactive, $10.894 million.

Volition, Inc.
Maker of Saints Row (includes work done by High Voltage on Saints Row 4, apparently)
Winning bidder: Koch Media/Deep Silver, $22,312,925.

Metro (license)
Series; due for the sequel Metro: Last Light.
Winning Bidder: Koch Media/Deep Silver, $5,877,551

Homefront (license)
Released 2011; due for a sequel.
Winning bidder: Crytek. $544,218.

The era of THQ wrestling games is over. Sources have indicated to IGN that the WWE game franchise will be sold to Take Two, parent company of 2K. Terms of the sale are unknown at this time, as details have not been finalized. These negotiations appear to have taken place outside THQ's formal auction process.

This news comes as THQ assets have been divided among several different publishers, pending court approval.

2k sports NHL and NBA games are really good so hopefully they'll do a good job with WWE.

god awful create a player in nba though. Not nearly enough detail. But once created they are similar quality graphics to the actual players, which is alot different to how wwe games worked out usually. So maybe if 2K focus on detail it could come out looking a whole lot crisper.