The future of Darksiders, Red Faction and THQ’s other IP at Nordic Games
In an industry thick with creators, Lars Wingefors is an unapologetic business man first, perhaps only.
“I’ve seen bad experiences with trying to handle creative people,” said Wingefors, self-described entrepreneur and owner of Nordic Games Group and Wingefors Invest. “So we don’t have any internal developers and I don’t intend to.”
Typically that wouldn’t be a problem for a game distributor, but as of yesterday afternoon unofficially, and next month officially, Wingefors’ Nordic Games will be the owner of more than 150 individual titles, rights to titles and video game franchises, each the beloved orphan of THQ’s steady disintegration.
It will be up to Wingefors and his business team in Austria to decide what to do with the likes of M…
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