THQ Sale of Assets for About $72 Million Approved by U.S. Judge

THQ Inc. will be split up after a judge gave the bankrupt video-game maker approval to sell most of its assets to multiple buyers for about $72 million, topping an offer that would have kept the company intact.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary F. Walrath in Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday approved the sales, saying “I am convinced the market has spoken and that the offers were the highest and best for the assets.”