‘Left 4 Dead’ developer responds to Take-Two acquiring the rights for ‘Evolve’

Developer Turtle Rock Studio, who is behind the “Left 4 Dead” series, has issued a response in regards to Take-Two Interactive acquiring the rights of their upcoming multiplatform current and next-gen title, “Evolve.”

[RAMHAMMERSPAMMER]

so.

[extermin8or]

Swear Valve made left for dead.... never heard of 'turtle rock' have i missed something....?!

[febreeze1]

Valve basically bought the studio, fired most of the people and kept the IP...

[DeadIIIRed]

Turtle Rock is to Valve what Santa Monica Studio is to Sony; one branch on a larger corporate tree.

[DOMination-]

Can't ge right. If Valve own them then why aren't they publishing this game? Why did THQ own the IP?

[DeadlyFire]

Valve actually shut it down, but the studio reformed itself. So its on its own now. So they can make whatever under whoever they want.

[DOMination-]

Thanks for the information, DeadlyFire

[FlyingFoxy]

Turtle Rock were the original developers of Left 4 Dead, Valve took over and continued to develop on the game and changed stuff (character models etc) to make it look better.

Valve then developed Left 4 Dead 2, i am really looking forward to Left 4 Dead 3 on Source 2.

[DeadlyFire]

Valve bought Turtle Rock while they were working on Left 4 Dead before most even knew about the game. Transferred team to Valve South at some point. Then shut down Turtle Rock. Kept Left 4 Dead IP. Turtle Rock then reformed itself.

[extermin8or]

So how can the IP have belonged to THQ? wtf...

[Skate-AK]

Oh nice I didn't know it was gonna use CryEngine 3.