Why exactly would anyone care about an MIT licensed project being bought? I don't blame Pocket Gamer for realising it was a waste of time putting the article. I sense they simply wanted to free marketing to go with it, but their purchase of the repo is pointless otherwise. An MIT licensed repo is meaningless as a owned product as anyone can and will do as they like with it. It's also a community where you can't get away with pretending you were remotely key in building the software up to that point.