![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Gearbox and Homeworld, Stardock and Star Control...
When THQ went bankrupt, they sold all their IP off. Gearbox, makers of Borderlands and Aliens: Colonial Marines, acquired the Homeworld license.
Now Atari is out of the picture... and Stardock, makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Fallen Enchantress, has acquired the Star Control license.
Both are quite competent developers, but neither are the group of developers that originally authored the IPs. For Homeworld, that would be Relic, or maybe Blackbird Interactive, created by Homeworld developers out of Relic. For Star Control, that would be Toys for Bob. So it's going to be interesting to see what both developers make out of these highly celebrated and yet long fallow epic space game trademarks.
I'll certainly be keeping an eye on them both!
Now Atari is out of the picture... and Stardock, makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Fallen Enchantress, has acquired the Star Control license.
Both are quite competent developers, but neither are the group of developers that originally authored the IPs. For Homeworld, that would be Relic, or maybe Blackbird Interactive, created by Homeworld developers out of Relic. For Star Control, that would be Toys for Bob. So it's going to be interesting to see what both developers make out of these highly celebrated and yet long fallow epic space game trademarks.
I'll certainly be keeping an eye on them both!