THQ Nordic acquires the Carmageddon IP

Mon, Dec 03, 2018 15:00 CET

THQ Nordic today announced the acquisition of the intellectual property “Carmageddon” from Stainless Games, based in Newport, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

Carmageddon is a vehicular combat video game released for PC in 1997. It was later ported to other platforms and spawned a series of follow-up titles.

For additional information, please contact:

Lars Wingefors, Co-Founder and Group-CEO

Tel: +46 708 471 978

E-mail: lwingefors@thqnordic.com

About THQ Nordic

THQ Nordic develops and publishes PC and console games for the global games market. The company has an extensive catalogue of over 100 owned franchises, such as Saints Row, Goat Simulator, Dead Island, Darksiders, Metro (license), Titan Quest, MX vs ATV, Kingdoms of Amalur, Time Splitters, Delta Force, Alone in the Dark, Wreckfest amongst many others.

The group has a global presence, with its group head office located in Karlstad, Sweden and with three divisions; Deep Silver/Koch Media, THQ Nordic and Coffee Stain. The group has fifteen internal game development studios based in Germany, UK, Finland, USA and Sweden and engages close to 2000 people.

THQ Nordic's shares are publicly listed on Nasdaq First North Stockholm under the ticker THQN B with FNCA Sweden AB as its Certified Adviser. For more information, please visit: http://www.thqnordic-investors.com.