To settle the outstanding claims against former owner Sumner Redstone, Bloomberg is reporting that the creditors' committee of the defunct publisher Midway Games has agreed to a $1 million cash lump sum payout.
It was previously reported that prior to the lump sum agreement, unsecured creditors of the parent company would only be able to recover 16.5 percent of what had been owed, while unsecured creditors of subsidiaries would only be eligible to 25 percent. After reportedly liquidating its Chapter 11 plan last week, the new cash agreement represents a more financially beneficial deal for all parties involved.
Midway's death spiral comes to a finale following a tawdry love affair with conspiracy-fueled headlines, including legal battles and multiple companies picking away properties from the company like vultures at a fresh corpse. The bankruptcy court will rule on the settlement agreement on June 23.
[Via GI.biz]
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: May 30th 2010 9:40PM BrianH said
next time make a M rated mortal combat
Posted: May 30th 2010 10:56PM (Unverified) said
Trey-
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment owns most of the Midway back catalog now, including Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter, Gauntlet, San Francisco Rush, and everything else with the three exceptions here-
NBA Jam- owned by EA Sports now
Hydro Thunder- owned by Microsoft Game Studios now
Cruis'n- Nintendo always had the IP rights, they just licensed the name to Midway to make the Cruis'n trilogy.
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment owns most of the Midway back catalog now, including Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter, Gauntlet, San Francisco Rush, and everything else with the three exceptions here-
NBA Jam- owned by EA Sports now
Hydro Thunder- owned by Microsoft Game Studios now
Cruis'n- Nintendo always had the IP rights, they just licensed the name to Midway to make the Cruis'n trilogy.
Posted: May 31st 2010 12:48AM Shiv Thrice said
Tekken and Street Fighter are out, I want a MK game..
Posted: May 31st 2010 2:22AM (Unverified) said
FINISH THEM!
Posted: May 31st 2010 2:34AM Slaziman said
Meh never liked Midway anyway
Posted: May 31st 2010 3:27AM npa189 said
Dear Warner bros.
I want a good gauntlet game.
Most of midway's back catalog is great franchises, and I hope a company that doesn't have it's head up its ass will do great things with them.
I want a good gauntlet game.
Most of midway's back catalog is great franchises, and I hope a company that doesn't have it's head up its ass will do great things with them.
Posted: May 31st 2010 11:56AM (Unverified) said
Agreed. If WBIE would just put the Midway/Williams/Atari Games back catalog onto the Xbox Game Room, I'd buy them all.
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Posted: May 31st 2010 12:21PM MemZ said
Can we get some investigative journalism going on here and find out who owns the rights to Hitz (and Blitz)?
Posted: May 31st 2010 4:06PM OpeningNumber said
I'm also hoping the Midway love will begin flowing in XBLA Game Room. Hopefully the rights to the original cabinet designs are attached to the games themselves so we don't get cabs looking like those ugly Konami ones...
Posted: May 31st 2010 8:43PM (Unverified) said
That, and Microsoft has to resubmit Game Room to the ESRB for an M rating (which they can do) so we can play Mortal Kombat and NARC the way they were meant to be played.
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