THQ Nordic Buys Saints Row, Metro, Dead Island Publisher

THQ Nordic – publisher of de Blob, which is getting a Switch remaster later this year –  has bought Koch Media, which owns the Saints Row, Metro, and Dead Island franchises, in a €121 million deal.

Koch Media itself runs Deep Silver (Dead Island and Metro publisher), Volition (Saints Row developer) and Dambuster Studios (Homefront: The Revolution developer), all of which will come under the THQ Nordic umbrella.

There are no plans to restructure following the acquisition, nor any “cost saving measures” on the horizon, suggesting that layoffs are unlikely.

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