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THQ files trademark application for 1666
One of THQ’s multiple secret projects may have just become slightly less mysterious. The publishers has made a gaming trademark application for 1666. Gamespot notes 1666 is the year of the Great Fire...
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THQ registers web domains for Saints Row 4, and mysterious 1666 project
THQ has registered new website domains for not only the next Saints Row, but its 1666 project which popped up back in March via a trademark application. The Saints Row domains are rather obvious:...
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THQ sold to “stalking horse,” files for bankruptcy
THQ has confirmed it’s sold “substantially all of the assets” to a “stalking horse bidder,” affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group. According to this press release, the publisher has filed voluntary...
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Ubisoft issues South Park, THQ Montreal statement: new IP confirmed
Ubisoft won big at the THQ auction this week, snapping up South Park: The Stick of Truth and THQ Montreal. The publisher has now issued a full statement on the matter, that confirms THQ Montreal’s...
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Ubisoft: “We’re very happy to look forward to working with” Désilets again
Ubisoft has elaborated a bit more on its THQ Montreal purchase, stating that the firm is “happy” over the possibility of “working with” Patrice Désilets again despite his departure back in 2010 to help...
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Leaving Ubisoft “was not my decision,” says Désilets
Ubisoft has announced the departure of Patrice Désilets once again, after rumors of his leaving and the cancellation of his projects surfaced earlier. Since the confirmation by Ubisoft, Désilets has...
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Ubisoft has fired THQ Montreal’s Jean-Francois Boivin, according to Désilets
Patrice Désilets has said over Twitter that he wasn’t the only developer fired by Ubisoft yesterday. According to a tweet from Désilets, Jean-Francois Boivin who was a producer and co-worker of his at...
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Ubisoft: 1666 suspended, two new titles in 2013
Ubisoft announced today during its call to investors that it has suspended development of 1666, one of the projects it picked during the THQ Auction in January. According to the firm’s CEO, Ubisoft...
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Désilets suing Ubisoft, wants 1666: Amsterdam rights
Patrice Désilets has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft in which he is seeking $400,000 and the rights to purchase 1666, which was apparently subtitled Amsterdam. According to the filing obtained by...
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1666 was “the new Assassin’s Creed”– Désilets
1666 was going to be the next big thing, according to Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets. “It was to be the new Assassin’s Creed,” Désilets said of the new property in a Spanish-language...
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Ubisoft returns 1666: Amsterdam rights to Assassin’s Creed creator
Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets can forge ahead with the IP he lost in THQ’s dissolution. Ubisoft returns 1666: Amsterdam rights to Assassin’s Creed creator The game once described as “the...
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Assassin’s Creed successor? Yeah, we believe it. 1666: Amsterdam sure looked a lot like Assassin’s Creed Now that Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets has regained the 1666: Amsterdam rights, he’s...
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