TeamPixel is the money return that the developer via Kickstarter has collected. The studio wanted the rights to Homeworld buy. Those rights are auctioned off in the aftermath of the bankruptcy of THQ, but teamPixel has not the highest bid.
Developer teamPixel through Kickstarter known that there is a higher bid has come in the rights to the space rts Homeworld. That is to say, the small studio, the rights are not in their hands. That is why the studio the 58.644 dollar refund that it has picked up. The amount was raised by 1318 donors.
The rights to the game are on sale since the bankruptcy of publisher THQ. The various parts of the company to be sold off by auction. When it was announced that the rights to a number of games in the first veilingronde not sold were, decided developer teamPixel to try the rights to buy on Homeworld, the game that former THQ studio Relic Entertainment in 1999, delivered. The studio decided to use Kickstarter to raise money to make a bid to be able to bring. It managed to teamPixel to the targeted $ 50,000 via Kickstarter to pick up, supplemented with a further 13.675 u.s. dollars over the comparable IndieGoGo. Out of both collections to be received teamPixel in addition, an as yet unknown amount of individuals. All that seems to be not enough to get the rights to the game in their hands.
Which party, that a higher bid has been released, is not known. The results of the second veilingronde is later this week expected. From a document (here as pdf) from the United States Bankruptcy Court shows that for the second veilingronde a yield of 6 to 7 million dollars is expected. In addition to the rights to Homeworld are also on Red Faction, Darksiders, Titan Quest, Costume Quest and Stacking will be auctioned. The rights to series like Company of Heroes, Metro, Saints Row and Homefront were in January already sold.
