The gaming press are rarely interested in the boardroom chat of big publishers. The talk is dry, involves big numbers, and the chance of a good biscuit is practically nil. However, that often means we miss out on the talk of daring midnight-raids involving gyrocopters flying low over the Wien river.
If the reports are true, this is exactly what Double Fine did to secure the distribution rights to Costume Quest and Stacking, two of their games which were bundled up and sold to Nordic Games during the auction of THQ’s assets.
Back in January we learned that Double Fine had accessed the THQ auction documents and Jeremy was told by Greg Rice, one of the developer’s producers, that while "Double Fine owns the full intellectual property rights to Costume Quest and Stacking [...] THQ retains certain limited distribution rights that have not expired yet, and we are exploring our options with respect to those."
