Baseball great turned game developer Curt Schilling.

MAY 27, 2009 • Boston Red Sox veteran baseball player Curt Schilling purchased Big Huge Games from THQ Inc. The acquisition is intended to significantly augment Schilling’s own 38 Studios. The latter has an Unreal engine-based MMO titled Copernicus in development. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

Impact: Big Huge Games is a top class development shop that simply was not a good fit for THQ, a company that specialized in B grade licensed products for console and portable systems. There was some major concern that Big Huge Games was going to be shut down and so we applaud the fact that 38 Studios stepped forward.