Are you a fan of Darksiders, Red Faction, Homeworld, or MX vs. ATV?  

If you are, then you were certainly saddened to learn that those properties were not sold during THQ's liquidation.  Have hope, however, because what remains of THQ will put several of its unsold properties up for auction.  The franchises and other owned or licensed software will be broken up into lots and sold in chunks.  

Lot 1 is contains Red Faction, Red Faction 2, Red Faction Armageddon, and Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Lot 2 contains Homeworld and Homeworld 2.

Lot 3 is a big one.  It includes MX Alive, Mx Superfly featuring Ricky Carmichael, MX Unleashed, MX vs ATV Reflex, MX vs ATV Untamed, MX vs ATV Alive Tournament, MX vs. ATV Unleashed, and MX vs ATV: On The Edge.

Lot 4 is Darksiders and Darksiders 2.

Lot 5 is huge.  Highlights include Frontlines: Fuel of War, both Full Spectrum Warrior games, all four Destroy All Humans! games, and uDraw among many others you'll find after the jump.

Lot 6 is similar in size.  Its highlights include Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander Forged Alliance, Worms 2, Worms Battle Islands, Worms Open Warfare, Worms: A Space Oddity, and Worms: Open Warfare 2 (Team 17).  Again, you can find the full list after the jump.

If you're interested in bidding, you can find the deadlines and requirements after the jump (basically you can't just be some dude who wants to "own" a videogame franchise).

Bidding and final sales should conclude by mid-May. [READ MORE]

It's that time of year again; the time of year when you start to stress out about how you'll get to this year's QuakeCon 2013 being held from August 1st through August 4th (once again) in Dallas, Texas at the Hilton Anatole Hotel (again).

Also getting the "again" treatment: QuakeCon 2013 will host the continent's largest BYOC* LAN party.  I'm not a religious man, but I'll be praying for whoever has to clean up that mess.

For more information, visit www.quakecon.org.

You can also go here to make reservations at the Hotel, or, for the linkophobic, you can go old school and actually call the Hotel to make a reservation at 1-800-Hiltons or 1-800-445-8667.

*bring your own computer - But if you didn't know that, you're probably not going to QuakeCon2013. [READ MORE]

To bastardize a line from Super Troopers, "Nostalgia is a stinky cologne." But Twitter don't care. Wednesday, as the clock counted down to the Sony PlayStation 2013 Conference--where Sony officially announced the PlayStation 4--gamers pushed #PlayStationMemories to the top of Twitter's trends.

So, we sprayed a little Nostalgia on ourselves and recounted a few of our own PlayStation memories.

Sean Colleli
Sorry, I was a late-comer to the house of PlayStation. I got a PS2 very late, in 2006, just to play Guitar Hero, and only got into other PS stuff when I started collecting old games and systems. While I acknowledge the quality of their products, I've never had much allegiance to the brand because everything they make is the freaking Rolls Royce of consumer electronics and it's takes at least three years after launch until it's affordable. For example, I love my PS3--which I only got last year--but I wish it would've been less than $500 much earlier in its lifespan so I could've invested most of my money in getting games for it instead of the clunky, ad-choked Xbox 360. As for best memories? The infamously awful "I want a PSP for Xmas" ad campaign from 2006.

Jeremy Duff
My fondest PS-related memory? Probably picking up my first PS2. I was really late to the game in terms of getting one, I was more of an Xbox guy for most of the last generation. When I did finally pick up a PS2, I was blown away at all of the great games I had missed in my time without a system. Imagine picking up a system for the first time and having a selection like Ratchet & Clank, Kingdom Hearts, God of War, and Final Fantasy X...that is one hell of a launch lineup, even if it was just my personal launch of the platform.

Randy Kalista
The entire rise and fall of my never-happened rap career took place between 8:00 PM and midnight for two years in San Diego's Naval Base barracks. Eyes feeling all salty, staring at the Tetris-block screens of the MTV Music Generator on PSone, splicing hip hop beats with classical composers like Wagner and Haydn. Despite my efforts, I still don't have a $30,000 Jesus piece to hang around my neck.

John Yan
My fondest memory was picking up the PlayStation 2. It was a console I was pretty excited about since I had such great times with the PSX. Since it played my old games, I was able to transition to it pretty well. So what made that launch day memorable? Well, I was given a call to pick one up on launch day having pre-ordered one ages ago. I was going to pick one up after work. Before I did, I heard on the news of how some folks got mugged for their PS2 walking out of a local mall near me. It just so happens I didn't live in a very safe area at the time so my friend and I were pretty cautious carrying ours out to the car in the parking lot. It was also how I knew my girlfriend at the time and my wife now loved me. She let me put the entire purchase on her credit card because I was out of money. 

It's nice that Sony has moved away from the dreaded Cell architecture that's plagued developers for the PlayStation 3. You can argue all you want that developers should've known how to program for the CPU, but if you have to teach folks how to fully utilize a product rather than just giving them the tools and let them go at it, you've made it really hard on yourself to get quality games. Why make it complicated for the folks that produce your software?

And with that, the Cell is dead as Sony went with an x86 architecture supplied by the folks at AMD for the PlayStation 4. The CPU has eight cores while the GPU has 18 compute units with 1.84 Teraflops of processing power and 8GB of ram. In comparison, the AMD Radeon HD 7870 has 2.56 Teraflops of processing power with 20 compute units.

Yes, the PlayStation 4 will have a Blu-Ray drive so you'll be able to watch movies and purchase physical copies of your games as well as used games. It wont have backwards compatibility with PS3 games, but will do so via Gaikai's streaming service.

I do find it a little funny that it's more akin to a computer than a "console". Sony' own words were a supercharged computer and the PlayStation 4 has a lot of things in it that PC folks have been able to do for a while now such as share video and remote play. I'm probably in the minority here, but I've been able to use Splashtop Remote HD to stream games like Skyrim and Diablo III to my tablet and use it to play for a while now. In any case, it's nice to see Sony make this easy to do for consumers and the stream play to the Vita might boost some sales to the little handheld.

Sony's gone all AMD with their next PlayStation. So for developers, they should be pretty happy since it's moving to a more familiar architecture. Let's hope this translates into better games and better ports of multi-platform games. [READ MORE]

While the look of the PlayStation 4 is still unknown, there is one thing we do know. The PlayStation 4 will be able to play used games. This coming from Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida. 

Eurogamer flat out asked this question to Shuhei and his reply was, "So, used games can play on PS4. How is that?"

Can't put it more firmly than that. It goes on to say that that patent that Sony owns about preventing used games from working isn't even about the PlayStation, although one has to wonder what it could be for then. It's not like there's a used game market for mobile platforms.

Anyways, there ya go. That should put and end to that. Now it's Microsoft who has to answer on whether their next console will let you walk into a Gamestop and pick up games for it or let your friends borrow your games.