Two years after the purchase of the bankrupt THQ trademark, the Austrian Nordic Games announced its renaming to THQ Nordic.
Video game developer and publisher THQ, founded in 1989, declared bankruptcy in 2012. During the sale of the company’s assets in 2013, the rights to the company’s games were sold to its competitors. A significant part of the rights (to Darksiders, Destroy All Humans!, Red Faction and others) were acquired by Nordic Games. In 2014, the Austrians bought the THQ brand itself.
Now the company has decided to take the name of a once very popular and large company, becoming THQ Nordic. According to the official press release, the renaming is evidence of a new phase in the evolution of Nordic, whose history started in Sweden in the early nineties as a comic book store.
Perhaps one of the reasons for the renaming was the fact that most of the company’s unannounced projects that are currently in development (a total of 13 pieces) are created under THQ franchises.
Nordic became a developer and publisher of video games only in 2008. At the moment, the company has two internal studios (in the USA and Germany), numbering 84 employees. The number of employees of the company, including the staff of external teams, is 325 people.
A source: THQ Nordic