american studio sandblast owns the rights to destroy all humans.
american studio sandblast owns the rights to destroy all humans.
who owns the rights to destroy all humans?
american studio sandblast
the franchise intellectual property (ip) holder, thq, went bankrupt on december 19, 2012 and its many ips were subsequently sold off. on april 22, 2013, it was announced that in a $4.9 million deal with thq, nordic games purchased the rights to "destroy all humans!" among other ips. on their official twitter account the company claimed: "we are thinking about what to do next with it." in june 2016, reihard pollice, nordic games' product development director and executive producer, stated, "there are a few options we are evaluating now. hope to get started on one of these soon." in late 2016, "destroy all humans!" and "destroy all humans! 2" were ported to playstation 4 and upscaled to 1080p. in 2018, "destroy all humans!" was ported to xbox one in their backward compatibility catalog. on june 7, 2019, thq nordic announced a remake of "destroy all humans!", set for a release in 2020 for microsoft windows, playstation 4, and xbox one. the remake is in development at black forest games and will feature content that was cut from the original release.
destroy all humans!
the games take place mostly on earth where the furon cryptosporidium, also known as crypto, is tasked by his superiors to gather furon dna locked inside human brain stems in order to save his race from cloning themselves to extinction. in "destroy all humans!", crypto's objectives also include investigating what happened to his previous clone. "destroy all humans! 2" features crypto hunting for revenge, after the kgb try to assassinate him and successfully destroy the mothership and his mission officer, orthopox, as well as exterminating the furons' enemy from the martian war, the blisk. "destroy all humans! big willy unleashed" involves crypto protecting pox's new fast food chain using a giant robot mech disguised as the restaurant's mascot, called "big willy". "destroy all humans! path of the furon" is available on xbox 360 (and playstation 3 only in australia and europe), and involves crypto seeking enlightenment to help him stop a conspiracy that threatens the furon empire. "destroy all humans!" takes place in 1959; "destroy all humans! 2" takes place in 1969; "destroy all humans! big willy unleashed" takes place in 1975; "destroy all humans! path of the furon" takes place in 1979.
destroy all humans!