Talk about mopping up: THQ Nordic has bought the Kingdoms of Amalur IP as well as the unreleased Copernicus MMO.
Project Copernicus
Key events
Four years later the Kingdoms of Amalur court case comes to an end
Curt left with a shilling.
Four years later and it looks like whole 38 Studios/Curt Schilling/Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning legal battle with Rhode Island state is coming to a close.
SOE looked multiple times at buying Project Copernicus
"I really wanted to play that game."
EverQuest maker Sony Online Entertainment looked more than once at buying Project Copernicus, the MMO follow-up to Kingdoms of Amalur that sunk along with the 38 Studios ship.
Curt Schilling - the Baseball great who swung at video games and missed, taking 38 Studios and Big Huge Games down with him, plus a lot of taxpayer's money - is selling off his own stuff to raise money to pay debts.
Curt Schilling is sued by the state of Rhode Island
Gov. Chafee: "I know you work hard for your paychecks, and for your tax dollars to be squandered is unacceptable."
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) - the quasi-public agency behind the now infamous $75 million loan to former baseball star-cum-game developer Curt Schilling - has filed a lawsuit against the head of now defunct 38 Studios for losing the state's money.
Curt Schilling: 38 Studios' MMO Project Copernicus "wasn't fun"
Also claims Take-Two nearly bought the Amalur sequel.
Curt Schilling admitted that his now defunct MMO at 38 Studios, Project Copernicus, "wasn't fun."
38 Studios responds to leaked Kingdoms of Amalur MMO trailer
Conjures "a mix of emotions". Video inside.
An unfinished version of the announcement trailer for Kingdoms of Amalur MMO, Project Copernicus, has slipped onto the internet.
38 Studios - the now defunct developer - confirmed its authenticity.
The video is a mix of narrated cartoon-like illustrations and gameplay footage - the two styles blending into one another as the scenes chop and change.
VideoWhat may have been the Project Copernicus announcement trailer
But like 38 Studios, like Big Huge Games, is no more.
Dead Amalur MMO Copernicus glimpsed in new screens
Curt Schilling releases fresh images.
New creenshots of canned MMO Copernicus have been posted online by Curt Schilling, boss of scuppered Kindoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios.
No new Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning patches "barring some sort of miracle"
Closed developer Big Huge Games is "deeply sorry".
There won't - "barring some sort of miracle" - be any new patches released for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, developer Big Huge Games has announced.
Lead designer Ian S. Frazier said a PC patch was in development, and would have added new difficulty modes, camera features and fixed bugs.
"But before we finished," Frazier wrote on the Kingdoms of Amalur forum, "the company collapsed."
Amalur MMO "would blow you away", claims game's author
Copernicus is/was "much further along than is being reported".
Planned Kingdoms of Amalur MMO Project Copernicus is - or was, should 38 Studios close for good - shaping up to be something truly special, according to the game's author R. A. Salvatore.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning needed to sell 3 million to break even
"The game failed. The game failed."
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning apparently needed to sell "in the 3 million range just to break even" - an astronomical ask of a new IP of its status.
Screenshots of Amalur dev's Copernicus MMO leak
What's your Reckoning?
Screenshots of what appears to be Project Copernicus, the MMO being made by troubled Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios, have leaked online.
Project Copernicus screenshots
The MMO by Kingdoms of Amalur dev 38 Studios.
The MMO by Kingdoms of Amalur dev 38 Studios.