Smash! Bash! Cash! THQ Nordic buy Carmageddon | Carmageddon Max Pack | Gamehypes

Smash! Bash! Cash! THQ Nordic buy Carmageddon

Carmageddon Max Pack

Carmageddon is the original freeform driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows!) equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. The game features anarchic drive-wherever-you-like gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence. It’s the racing game where racing is for wimps.

In their ongoing mission to own PC gaming 1992-2006, publishers THQ Nordic are now buying the intellectual property rights to Carmageddon. Like when they bought Alone In The Dark earlier this year, THQ Nordic (who even bought the “THQ” half of their name) say part of their ownership will, naturally, involve thinking about maybe making “sequels and new content”. Which they’ve gone on to do with many of the games they bought. Carmageddon isn’t quite so gone-and-forgotten, considering creators Stainless Games released a crowdfunded sequel to their Death Race-inspired smash-o-driver only a few years back, but it started in 1997 and so THQ Nordic must own it. Or maybe it’s a Christmas present.

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