With the sale completed by July 10th the remaining studios were either closed or sold off (namely to SouthPeak Games and to THQ who would themselves file for bankruptcy in 2012). for the majority of the company’s assets. After filing for bankruptcy in February of 2009, Midway received a bid of more than $33 million from Warner Bros. ![]() These “evolving rights” related to Midway’s bankruptcy and financial woes as the company shut down operations through 2010. On February 17th, 2010 Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb announced on Twitter that nine Midway Games had been removed from Xbox Live “due to publisher evolving rights and permissions”. The games were put on sale one final time through the last week of June 2010 and were likely delisted shortly thereafter. In the wake of Midway’s bankruptcy and closure in 2009 all six titles were delisted after their Xbox 360 counterparts. ![]() In January of 2007 Midway Games and Sony Online Entertainment announced a collaboration to bring six downloadable Midway titles to the PlayStation 3.
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