Tag archive: THQ

Although 2012 is still just weeks old, at least one company is probably not going to think back fondly on this year. In just a few short weeks, the once giant video game developer and publisher THQ has reported loses during the holiday season alone of $55.9 million, causing a massive restructuring. Sales in general were down 3-percent as well. Sadly, but not surprisingly, that news was followed by reports of layoffs. At first it was estimated… Read More

If you follow UFC, then you are probably already aware that his Saturday at 8pm EST, Light Heavyweights “Suga” Rashad Evans (16-1) and Phil “Mr. Wonderful” Davis (9-0) will face each other in the main bout on Fox . If Davis wins, he will earn the title of number one contender. If Evans wins, he will face the champ, Anderson Silva, in a Brazilian soccer stadium in what will be one of the most hyped fights in recent years. The stakes… Read More

South Park, the TV series, has never shied away from making fun of or at least nodding to the video game-loving side of geek culture. Never in the hateful way that it reserves for certain celebrities or organizations; it's always been more of a playful mocking of extremes. A number of games based on the series have been released over the years, with the strongest probably being the Nintendo 64 first-person shooter, South Park. There may… Read More

You might be surprised to find out that the life of a video game reviewer isn’t all champagne kisses and caviar dreams. When we aren’t jet setting around the globe in our private jets and swimming in our Scrooge McDuck-sized pools of gold, we occasionally take breaks to, you know, review games. Sometimes we have to endure some real stinkers, and other times we get lucky when true gems come along that remind us brilliantly why we love video games… Read More

EA has decided to expand the Origin PC download service and offer titles from third-parties. PC gamers can look forward to purchasing and downloading titles like Batman: Arkham City, Saints Row: The Third and more at the beginning November. Origin is already packing a large 100 game library, but all of those are Electronic Arts birthed products. Now Origin users will be able to download games from three major publishers: Warner Bros. Interactive… Read More

Warhammer predates our digital age. For decades, geeks have crowded around tabletops with a handful of miniature figures, pitting ork against Ultramarine and fighting the evil chaos demons. And for a few years now, they've been building their digital armies in the real-time strategy versions of Warhammer 40,000. But sometimes strategy and tabletop play aren't enough. Sometimes you need to get down and dirty and there's no one… Read More

When the next Homefront game is released, tentatively sometime in 2014, there is one thing you can probably expect: It will be very pretty. THQ has announced that Crytek, makers of the graphically ridiculous Crysis games as well as the original Far Cry, have been brought on to take over development on the next Homefront game.  They will replace Kaos Studios, which was recently closed in what THQ called a “strategic realignment.” When Homefront… Read More

Throw your minds in the way-back machine, and head to June’s E3. Amongst all the giant titles with prefixes like “Call of” or featuring sequel numbers tacked onto the end (there were an awful lot of 3s this year), one of our favorite games was THQ’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. At the convention, Space Marine was very visible as roving space marines wandered around the THQ booth, stopping to take the occasional picture with attendees before… Read More

CD Projekt RED's role-playing game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was greeted warmly by critics when it was released earlier this year for PCs. An Xbox 360 version is coming as well, though it's now been pushed back beyond the originally planned holiday 2011 release into Q1 2012. The developer lays out the reasons for the delay in a press release, starting with the console port's need for additional polish. Wait… Read More

Do violent games stress you out? Would you like to meditate to a soothing video game after a long day's work? If so, spiritual guide Deepak Chopra and THQ may have a game for you. Called Leela, a word that means “play” in Sanskrit, the game uses Microsoft's Kinect or the Wii Remote to combine the world of games with breathing and meditation exercises, reports the AP. “I personally believe that you can accelerate… Read More

We're more than a month past the close of E3 2011 and footage is still arriving online on an almost daily basis. On Tuesday you got to see the Kanye West-'Power'ed Forza MotorSport 4 trailer and today brings a new look at THQ's Metro: Last Light, the follow-up to the publisher's 2010 release, Metro 2033. The two-and-a-half-minute look is clearly marked as part one, meaning there should be more to come soon.… Read More

Saints Row: The Third looks like full-contact Fable. That's the impression created by this latest gameplay clip, which basically amounts to seven minutes of mantastic posturing and crotch-punching, with the occasional game feature demonstration thrown in for good measure. Some standards need to be maintained, after all. The Saints Row series has always existed as a bizarre sort of polar opposite to Grand Theft Auto. While the Rockstar… Read More

If you consider yourself a serious gamer, then chances are you know the name Patrice Desilets. The former Ubisoft employee was the creative director on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as well as the first two Assassin's Creed games. He left the company last summer and was soon after scooped up by THQ, though a non-compete clause in his Ubi departure kept him on the sidelines until a full year had lapsed. That date passed on June 14,… Read More

THQ made a misstep earlier this year with Homefront, a first-person shooter bolstered by a huge, extended marketing push that, despite strong pre-order sales, failed to resonate with critical and consumer audiences. Largely because it's just not very good. We're now seeing the repercussions of the product's failure to launch with the publisher revealing to Gamasutra that it has shuttered the game's developer, Kaos… Read More

If you've always wanted to know what it's like to be an arrogant homicidal asshole, Saint's Row: The Third is the game for you. Taking some of the most criticized traits of the Grand Theft Auto series and magnifying them 10 fold, the third Saint's Row game is more violent than almost any game on the show floor and proud of it. During our demo, the guys from developer Volition Inc. joked around incessantly as they impaled… Read More