Smash! Bash! Cash! THQ Nordic purchase Carmageddon

In their ongoing mission to personal PC gaming 1992-2006, publishers THQ Nordic are actually shopping for the mental property rights to Carmageddon. Like once they bought Alone In The Dark earlier this yr, THQ Nordic (who even purchased the “THQ” half of their identify) say a part of their possession will, naturally, contain occupied with perhaps making “sequels and new content”. Which they’ve gone on to do with lots of the games they purchased. Carmageddon isn’t fairly so gone-and-forgotten, contemplating creators Stainless Games launched a crowdfunded sequel to their Death Race-inspired smash-o-driver just a few years again, but it surely began in 1997 and so THQ Nordic should personal it. Or perhaps it’s a Christmas current.

THQ Nordic are shopping for the Carmageddon rights off Stainless Games, who had themselves purchased the rights in 2011. Stainless launched the brand new Carmageddon: Reincarnation in 2015 (after going via early entry) then cell game Carmageddon Crashers in 2017, and now… it appears they’re executed with it.

I suppose THQ Nordic may nonetheless draft Stainless to make a brand new Carmageddon, in the event that they each wished that.

Other current THQ Nordic acquisitions embrace Kingdoms Of Amalur, TimeSplitters and Second Sight, all of Deep Silver together with Saints Row and Metro, the studios behind Wreckfest and Goat Simulator… many issues. They’re not simply shopping for issues to hoard, thoughts. Desperados 3 is coming from the makers of Shadow Tactics too, and Jagged Alliance: Rage actually seems decent.