Very cool. Just a little technical pointer. When you "option" a property, you don't actually acquire the rights to it. Rather, you buy the exclusive right to buy the rights to the property. It lasts for a limited period. This way the IP owner can be comfortable that if the company that is optioning the rights can't actually do something with them, the rights will eventually come back to them; likewise the optioning party is comfortable that they don't have to fork out the entire purchase price for something they may not be able to bring to market (for reasons beyond their control).

So I'm a little confused: Did Plan B actually buy the rights outright (acquire them), or did they option them?

PS: I really friggin hope that the designers who sparked the Dark Void project receive their proper share for this.

Tim: went back to the press release, and it rather unhelpfully says 'come to terms on' the rights. But I'm guessing it's optioning, since that is by far the most common occurrence.