Yea was hoping someone with better credentials but i'll take anything to see the talent survive under Volition brand. Didn't know they even had an entertainment division but it seems Kock Media were involved with some games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Media

Koch owns the company that published Dead Island and is publishing the sequel to Dead island. I find it funny that a PC RTS developer got sold for more money than Volition which everyone said was the crown jewel of THQ.

Since there is no mention of Company of Heroes and Saints Row are those IPs going with their developers to the new publishers?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

RIP Vigil, good developers like that die off but crappy ones keep going somehow...

From loltaku:

elic Entertainment
Makers of Company of Heroes
Winning bidder: Sega, $26.6 million.
Runner-up: Zenimax Media, $26.3 million.

THQ Montreal
Makers of 1666 and Underdog, titles under development.
Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $2.5 million. No runner-up.

Evolve
(title in development at Turtle Rock Studios)
Winning bidder: Take-Two Interactive, $10.894 million.
Runner-up: Turtle Rock Studios, $250,000.

Volition, Inc.
Maker of Saints Row
Winning bidder: Koch Media, $22,312,925.
Runner-up: Ubisoft, $5.4 million.

Homefront
Released 2011; due for a sequel.
Winning bidder: Crytek. $544,218.
No runner-up.

Metro
Series; due for the sequel Metro: Last Light.
Winning Bidder: Koch Media, $5,877,551
Runner-up: Ubisoft: $5.175 million.

South Park
License; South Park: The Stick of Truth is due for release March 5.
Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $3,265,306
No runner-up.

EA also supposedly got the WWE license.

Winning bidder: Take-Two Interactive, $10.894 million.
Runner-up: Turtle Rock Studios, $250,000.

Winning bidder: Koch Media, $22,312,925.
Runner-up: Ubisoft, $5.4 million.

I'm sure the winners will be just delighted to see those gaps.

wonder if I could do a petition for Nintendo to buy the Darksiders franchise. That has so many mechanics that borrowed from Zelda, it's a natural fit for Nintendo!!! I reckon the big N can grab the studio and license for under $3 mil!!!

Well apparently no one else wanted it so...

I loved the 1st one on my 360 and the second one is just as good.  The franchise has potential...though I would push Vigil to work a little harder on stamping out their bugs.

Vigil's gone. Anyone who wasn't snatched up, or wasn't in the small group being retained to wrap up THQ's business, is getting let go at the end of the week. If they're lucky they'll get a severance package, but since they make under seven figures they probably shouldn't hold their breath. Vigil's workers are about to scatter to the four winds, and that's pretty much that.