Wed, Jan 30, 2013 | 16:27 GMT
Volition’s potential buyers included EA, Take-Two, Warner, Ubisoft – report
Volition had six potential buyers at the ready before being nabbed by Koch Media, according to the developer’s general manager, Dan Cermak.
Speaking with Illinois-based The News Gazette, Cermak said EA, Koch, Take-Two, Warner, Ubisoft, and an unnamed Chicago group visited the studio prior to the THQ sale.
Out of the six, only Koch and Ubisoft submitted bids for Volition, with Koch snagging the Saint’s Row developer for $22.3 million, which doesn’t include the Red Faction franchise. Ubisoft bid $5.4 million.
All 185 Volition employees are to remain with the company, but the firm may be known as Deep Silver Volition once the ink on the papers dry. It’s just one of the names being mulled around for the developer at the moment, Cermak said.
Via Gamespot.
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Posted in: Deep Silver, THQ, Trade
Tags: saints row, volition
5 comments
#1
mreko3230
30/01/13, 4:50 pm
Deep Silver Volition? I picture someone is already frantically working on a “DSV” logo.
#2
pukem0n
30/01/13, 8:00 pm
does anyone know what happened to the Red Faction franchise?
i always thought Koch media got it with Volition
#3
Stephany Nunneley
30/01/13, 8:15 pm
@2 “…which doesn’t include the Red Faction franchise” — no one bought it. It along with Dark Siders are in limbo.
#4
DSB
30/01/13, 8:21 pm
… And Homeworld. Won’t someone please think about the Homeworld?
#5
Fethennour
30/01/13, 10:01 pm
As long as Saints Row 4 comes out… doesn’t change anything to me.