{"id":65961,"date":"2014-06-13T13:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65961"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:56:47","slug":"thq-is-alive-revived-by-nordic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65961-thq-is-alive-revived-by-nordic-games","title":{"rendered":"THQ is alive, revived by Nordic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Publisher THQ is alive, sort of, after Nordic Games purchased the defunct company’s name with the intention of releasing games under its moniker.<\/p>\n

In 2013 – before they bought the THQ trademark outright –\u00a0Nordic Games acquired some intellectual property<\/a>\u00a0from THQ, including\u00a0Darksiders, MX vs ATV, Red Faction, and Titan Quest for $4.9 million (\u00b1R52.6 million).<\/p>\n

“It was kind of a surprise to some industry veterans and players that we were the winner of the auction of the THQ titles,” said Nordic Games general manager Klemens Kruezer.<\/p>\n

“The challenging fact is nobody has ever heard about Nordic Games before [the THQ auction]. There were so many articles with the headlines ‘Who the f*** is Nordic Games?’ [that] we said, ‘Okay they were right’.”<\/p>\n

Nordic Games was established in 2011 in Austria and built their business on acquiring brands from bankrupt publishers\u00a0JoWooD and DreamCatcher.<\/p>\n

“We have seen an uplift in the name of Nordic Games, and what we have also done is we have made a second deal with THQ where we bought the THQ trademark.”<\/p>\n

More game announcements from Nordic\/THQ are apparently planned for Gamescom in August 2014.<\/p>\n