Disney Takes Back Pixar Game Rights

Yesterday , we told you that troubled publisher THQ was spinning off three of its internal studios. Heavy Iron Games and Incinerator are going to operate as independent studios, while the third, Big Huge Games, will shut down if it can not be sold. Today, we have a bit more information on one of the "spun-off" development houses, Heavy Iron Studios. Heavy Iron is the force behind these recent games: The Incredibles The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer Rattouille Wall-E Up These titles, as you may have noticed, are all game versions of property owned by computer animation outfit Pixar. But Pixar is owned by Disney and Disney is taking back its Pixar licensing. And reportedly plans to publish future Pixar games itself, beginning with the vid-game adaptation of Toy Story 3 . Whether any Disney-owned development studios will be able to work on Pixar games remains to be seen. As Variety.com points out, "The only ... (link)