Ubisoft Purchases South Park: The Stick of Truth Rights

Per the following press release, Ubisoft won the bid for South Park: The Stick of Truth and plans to still publish it in calender 2013. A more extensive report is available from MCVUK, who put the selling price at $3.265m. The deals should close by the end of the week, but as we reported South Park Studios is claiming the rights should revert to them, and that could still delay or halt this sale.

UBISOFT ACQUIRES THQ MONTREAL

Company Also Acquires Rights To South Park: The Stick Of Truth

PARIS, FRANCE January 23, 2013 Today, Ubisoft announced the acquisition of THQ Montreal as well as the publishing rights for the upcoming South Park: The Stick of Truth video game, being developed externally by Obsidian.

“This deal adds experienced developers to our internal creative teams at a key moment in the cycle of the video game industry,” said Yannis Mallat, president of Ubisoft Montreal.

THQ Montreal
In addition to the team at THQ Montreal, Ubisoft also acquired a new, yet-to-be announced IP in development at the studio. THQ Montreal will join Ubisoft’s development teams, already the second-largest in-house development staff in the world with 26 studios in 19 countries and more than 6,250 people dedicated to video game production.

South Park: The Stick of Truth
South Park: The Stick of Truth is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas, and is scheduled for release in calendar 2013.

This acquisition has no material impact on Ubisoft’s current fiscal year (2012/13).