Supcom Rights

[Kekouse]

THQ is dead. Every IPs are now sold.
I searched a little bit but still no words about Supcom. AFAIK Square has the IP but THQ the right to sell the 2 first games (supcom and FA). Who has bought the right now? Just to know who is the new "Big boss".

In a perfect world we could buy it back
Has anyone 50-100K$ left in his pocket?

[pip]

I thought the same thing. How can we get our hands on the source code? Will it become open source now that THQ is out of business ? Or maybe the rights to exploit the game go back to GPG ? Can GPG now kindly release the source code if we ask them?

I can only dream of improvements made to the code, for instance to use more than one CPU thread, rework the netcode to something asymetrical like Planetary Annihilation. This is a big deal IMO, we should seriously investigate the situation.

[Ze_PilOt]

Publication rights doesn't give you any right to the source code. That's still owned by GPG.

So you need to buy the publication rights AND buy a license of the engine from GPG. Or make a new contract with them to do something with it (but then, you may have problems with Square Enix as they own the license).

[ColonelSheppard]

I keep asking myself: Who would still have an intrest in an untouched engine?
but i fear companies think more like: "What do i get from a modded one..."