Wednesday, September 19th 2018
THQ Nordic Announces Acquisition of IP to "Alone in the Dark", "Act of War" Franchises
THQ Nordic today announced they had acquired rights to two different IPs from Atari Europe SAS. The agreement extends to both the Alone in the Dark and Act of War franchises - of which the first is the most well-known.
Alone in the Dark, with its survival horror archetype, saw early instalments of the series based on the writings of master horror storyteller H. P. Lovecraft. Later entries in the series drew inspiration from other sources including voodoo, the Wild West, and the works of H. R. Giger. Act of War, though, is a different beast: a story-driven, real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems that featured a fine-grained story penned by NYT bestselling author Dale Brown. Daily operations in the two newly-acquired franchises (sales and distribution, evaluation of sequels & new content etc.) will be done via THQ Nordic GmbH in Vienna, Austria. Here's hoping this eventually leads to a new lease of life for these currently estranged franchises (and the real time strategy genre in itself).
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THQ Nordic
Alone in the Dark, with its survival horror archetype, saw early instalments of the series based on the writings of master horror storyteller H. P. Lovecraft. Later entries in the series drew inspiration from other sources including voodoo, the Wild West, and the works of H. R. Giger. Act of War, though, is a different beast: a story-driven, real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems that featured a fine-grained story penned by NYT bestselling author Dale Brown. Daily operations in the two newly-acquired franchises (sales and distribution, evaluation of sequels & new content etc.) will be done via THQ Nordic GmbH in Vienna, Austria. Here's hoping this eventually leads to a new lease of life for these currently estranged franchises (and the real time strategy genre in itself).
8 Comments on THQ Nordic Announces Acquisition of IP to "Alone in the Dark", "Act of War" Franchises
Its like HarmonyGold with the Macross Franchise... Lots of fans want a new Macross but HG have the rights to it outside of Japan and they have done nothing with it apart from attempting to make a poor excuse for a live action and giving up when fans started shitting on it back in 1999/2000. Yet they refuse to license it out or sell the rights to the franchise to other studios/filmmakers who really really want it.
That said, I'm getting concerned with how many IPs THQ Nordic is acquiring. These are AAA series they bought and they require an AAA budget to make another installment. They might end up sitting for a long time in THQ Nordic's hands.
mb.cision.com/Main/15049/2500604/825689.pdf
www.thqnordic-investors.com/en/financial-reports/
1 SEK ~= 0.11 USD
A 'Generals' may be resurrected at a point.
AoW continuation will depend on how good are the ones making it of not ruining the original ideas.