Over the past three years publishers’ sales expectations for their projects have risen dramatically. Games like Dead Space 3, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and Tomb Raider all carried a heavy burden to sell millions upon millions of copies to be considered a success. By all accounts, these three games have been critically acclaimed and are worthy of a purchase yet some in the industry look upon their sales numbers as failures. It is no secret that the cost to...
Nordic Games, publisher of such esteemed titles as Painkiller HD, Singstar, and the upcoming games The Raven and Deadfall Adventures today announced that they’ve successfully purchased over 150 properties from THQ dying corpse. Included in the purchase are great titles like Darksiders, Red Faction, and Destroy All Humans (what a great game!). While it’s sad to see them go, it’s good to know that these games have hopeful futures. The team at Nordic Games has...
I loved Nexuiz. One year ago exactly I reviewed the twitch shooter that was making its way to Xbox Live two days later. I praised it. I gave it a 9.5 out of 10 and called it a modern marvel. One of the seven wonders of the world. Well, maybe not that far, but pretty close. Now, a year later, the game has died. As a result of THQ’s recent bankruptcy, the servers have been shut down. While Illfonic’s Kedhrin Gonzales told us the game would remain on the Xbox Live...
When the THQ bankruptcy/fire-sale took place one of the game franchises that was conspicuously missing in the news was the WWE series that fans of sports entertainment have come to love. Fear no more WWE fans as the franchise has landed in what are probably the best possible hands in the industry. 2K is known for their sports titles and bringing the WWE into their line-up only furthers their choke hold upon the world of non-football gaming. The WWE series is a great...
Trailers have become somewhat of a standard for games nowadays, they’re truly the first glimpse into a games soul, and if they aren’t good, chances are no one will even glance at your game.
It’s been a sad couple of weeks for THQ lately. After going bankrupt, selling most of their properties, and getting beat up worse then their last WWE game, THQ’s games are now starting to disappear from the Xbox Live Arcade listings. Five of THQ’s published arcade games have been taken down thus far; Apples to Apples, Screwjumper!, SpongeBob UnderPants, Voltron, and WWE Wrestlefest have all seen the same sad fate as the publisher. While XBLA still has...
THQ has officially sold it’s assets, as stated in an employee email sent out by THQ’s president this morning. It’s pretty sad, really, as THQ was what I considered one of the last “good” publishers out there, not succumbing to online passes and scummy techniques. The assets sold are as followed: Sega has purchased Company of Heroes Dev Relic Koch Media (the owners of Dead Island dev Deep Silver) have purchased Volition, creators of Saints...
THQ, one of the top publishers in the gaming industry is going through a frightening transition right now as they have announced that they have entered an asset purchase agreement with associates of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. The agreement will include all of the assets of THQs operating business which consists of 4 studios and any games that are currently in development. To facilitate the sale THQ and its domestic partners have agreed to voluntarily file Chapter 11 but...
THQ – bless their hearts – they’re like the little engine that could. Although they’ve had some terrible times lately, they’re still here showing the world that yes, they can do it! No matter what curve balls life throws at them, they’re always back at it proving to the world that they deserve our dollars. Today, THQ set up freemetrogame.com, where Facebook users over the age of 18 can snag a free copy of Metro 2033 for Steam. Go forth and...
Planning on getting the follow up game to the highest rated RTS game of all time? First, check out my preview, well once it’s up and then check out the pre-order bonuses below. Global pre-order: No matter where you pre-order you’ll be guaranteed vehicle skins for the German Rotbraun and Soviet Leningrad. Some retailers are also offering enrollment into the closed beta, but which ones, we’re not sure. Steam: Players will be rolled into Steam’s reward...
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