Kicking the year off in typical THQ Nordic fashion, the Austrian publisher announced today that it has acquired the rights to the Outcast IP. It has secured them from the game’s original creators, but hasn’t announced what it plans to do with the property. Outcast is famous for being one of the first fully 3D open world games and won GameSpot’s “Adventure Game of the Year” in 1999. In 2017, Outcast – Second Contact was released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC and was an HD remaster of the original 1999 game.
You can read the entire press release below for more information.
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Karlstad/SWEDEN, Vienna/AUSTRIA, Charleroi/BELGIUM, January 10, 2019: THQ Nordic today announced that the acquisition of the intellectual property “Outcast” has been finalized with the three original creators of the game.
The acquisition itself is being handled by THQ Nordic AB, based in Karlstad, Sweden, and daily operations (sales and distribution, evaluation of sequels & new content etc.) will be done via THQ Nordic GmbH in Vienna, Austria.
About Outcast
GameSpot’s Adventure of the year in 1999 puts you in the role of Cutter Slade, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, and right in the middle of the alien world of Adelpha. After a couple of things went South with a probe sent to a parallel universe, Cutter is given the job to escort 3 scientists, close the black hole and safely get everyone back to Earth. So one cakewalk of a job and he blew it… Damn it, Cutter…
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About the original authors
Franck Sauer, Yann Robert and Yves Grolet have been working together for 30 years. Their most important game is Outcast, released in 1999. In 2015, Franck, Yann and Yves, revived Appeal Studios, to work on new games based on the Outcast universe.
