http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/thq http://kotaku.com/tag/thq The June release date for Darksiders II has been narrowed down to a specific day via the game's official Twitter. Expect Death and the pale horse he rode in on June 26. More »
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Yesterday, we learned that the video game publisher THQ is sitting on 1.4 million unsold copies of uDraw, a hugely unsuccessful game designed around a tablet peripheral. uDraw was such a disastrous investment—it cost the publisher around $100 Million on production and lost revenue—that it is almost singlehandedly responsible for their dire financial straits. More »
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A few weeks back, the future of THQ's Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium MMO was very much up in the air. Comments early yesterday had seemed to ease fears over the project, but comments later yesterday brought the fears right back. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5881889&view=rss&microfeed=true Blaming the poor sales of the uDraw tablet on a dismal third quarter of 2012, THQ has officially halted production on the device and has plans to eliminate existing stock through retail channels. Hey, isn't Valentine's Day coming up? More »
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Further distancing the company from rumors that its 2014 lineup had been canned, today's third quarter 2012 financial results from THQ list inSANE, Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium Online, and several more unannounced core titles that should be showing up over the next couple of years. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5881813&view=rss&microfeed=true The vague summer release window for THQ's Darksiders II became slightly less vague today, with the company's third quarter 2012 financial report listing the title for a June release. Ah, the sweet release of Death. More »
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In 2007, shares in publisher THQ were going for over $30 a piece. Today, in 2012, they're going for around $0.70. Studios are rumoured to be on the chopping block. Over 200 employees are being let go. And the company's boss has taken a 50% pay cut. More »
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Death and his pal War team-up to save the day this year in Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, a series prequel that takes place a millenia before the opening credits of the first game. More »
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Looks like things are going from bad to really bad to awful for publisher THQ, with an industry man reporting - not speculating, but straight-out reporting - that the company is about to sack over 170 employees. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5881175&view=rss&microfeed=true A pretty shitty week for THQ has gotten worse, with the beleaguered publisher threatened with expulsion from the Nasdaq stock exchange because its shares are worth so little. [MCV] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5881115&view=rss&microfeed=true Besides letting 14 go in Australia, THQ is rumored to be closing its Japan office. Kotaku is following up with THQ and with Valhalla Studios, who is making Devil's Third for THQ. [Kotaku Australia] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5880397&view=rss&microfeed=true Though THQ recently beat back rumors it was readying itself for sale, all is not happy within its house. Earlier today the company restated that it's done with the kidstuff, blaming the commercial failure of its uDraw tablet, among other things, for its poor performance of late. The company's stock closed at 70 cents today. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5879436&view=rss&microfeed=true Following the failure of its uDraw tablet for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and December's shutdown of it's children's game division, THQ has officially announced today that it's focusing on its core franchises. So Spongebob is out, UFC, Darksiders, Company of Heroes, inSANE, Saints Row and Warhammer 40,000 are in. More »
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Pushed from a January release to Valentine's Day, the flagship MMA title UFC Undisputed 3 said today its demo will release Jan. 24 or, a week from this past Tuesday. More »
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In between all the talking there's quite a bit of gameplay footage here of the upcoming Darksiders II. More »
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Over the weekend, a giant rumour popped up claiming that major publisher THQ was effectively done for. Specifically, it suggested the company's entire 2014 lineup had been shelved, and that its major MMO project based on the Warhammer 40K franchise had been binned. More »
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Rumor spreading fast via Twitter on Sunday holds that THQ has canceled its entire 2014 slate of releases to position the company for sale. More »
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From what we've heard of the upcoming South Park RPG, it's in good hands. From what we can now see of it in action, that feeling remains unchanged. More »
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Oh please God let this be true. More »
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Kim Jong-il, who has ruled the Communist state of North Korea since 1994, has passed away. Which means 2011 shooter Homefront was only two weeks off making one of the most timely (if accidental) fictional statements in video game history. More »
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Earlier this year, Patrice Desilets left Ubisoft Montreal, where he had developed three editions of Assassin's Creed, and moved to THQ's operations in the same city. Ubisoft didn't take that lying down, filing suit against THQ for poaching its top talent and winning a court's decision enjoining it from doing so further. More »
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Back in March, PR firm TrashTalkFCM thought it'd be a good idea to promote upcoming shooter Homefront by releasing a ton of balloons. It wasn't. More »
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I wasn't the biggest fan of the first Darksiders game, but even I'll admit, that's a pretty snappy tagline for its sequel. More »
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UFC Undisputed 3, which releases on Valentine's Day, will get a closed pre-release beta, according to the game's producer and a THQ representative. Though no other details are available, given the online difficulties faced by THQ's WWE 12, it's widely assumed this will cover the game's multiplayer features. More »
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Earlier this year Polish developer CD Projekt Red got into a legal scuffle with Namco Bandai over the distribution rights to the Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Now a French court has made it quite clear: THQ is out, and Namco Bandai is in. More »
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The news that KOTOR 2 and Fallout: New Vegas devs Obsidian are working on a South Park RPG seemed...odd. It's a franchise you wouldn't think lends itself to the genre, and it is a property that's not as commercially relevant as it once was. More »
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In today's gang-related edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Nameloi wants to get a good look at the face of your Saints Row: The Third gang leader. What hath the game's character customization wrought? More »
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Since its introduction two weeks ago in Saints Row: The Third, the game's four-foot long dildo bat—nom de guerre: "The Penetrator"—has killed more than two million citizens of Steelport, publisher THQ said in announcing a stat-tracking capability that charts all the mayhem taking place in the open-world crime game. More »
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WWE '12 is a game that theoretically should have been awesome. Between throwing someone through a table or a totally sweet cage match, this should be a great party/fighting game. Unfortunately, the controls keep amateurs out of the ring and given the way WWE '12 is designed, you will be explaining what every button does each time you play with someone new. More »
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Contrary to what the title led me to believe I was not instantly transformed into an artist upon starting up uDraw Studio Instant Artist, the pack-in software for THQ's new uDraw Tablet for the Xbox 360. I did, however, manage to record an entire video without drawing one penis. More »
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Kanye West's "Power" plays a central, recurring role in Volition's new open-world crime game Saints Row: The Third. The tune has been featured in the game's exhaustive promotional materials, plays regularly on its in-game radio stations, and makes bookending appearances in the single-player campaign. Considering the song's lyrics and the man who wrote them, Volition couldn't have chosen a more appropriate theme song. More »
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Randy "Macho Man" Savage died in a car wreck in May, two months after ending an estrangement with the WWE/F by appearing in THQ's WWE Superstars. Savage, one of the greatest superstars in professional wrestling history, will also appear in the series' flagship video game WWE 12 when it releases its Legends stable of wrestlers in January. More »
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In pro wrestling, a chair shot is when you hit someone with a metal folding chair, usually in the head area. You'll see one of those in the Saints Row the Third clip, along with all manner of open-world madness. Since it's out today, you can get your gangstafied crazy on right now. More »
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If you'd like a free insane costume for the Heavy in Team Fortress 2, you have about two days to pick it up. It also helps if you want Saints Row: The Third on PC, as that's what you have to preorder to grab it. More »
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At some point in Saints Row The Third the player's character tunes into "Mix 107.77" and Sublime's "What I Got" comes on. And then they sing along, male or female, in all eight of the voices you can give your character. More »
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Well, it's a bat, basically. The "Penetrator," the notorious four-foot long dickbat in Saints Row: The Third, runs afoul of Japanese laws prohibiting the display of genitalia, so Volition just turned the thing into a garden-variety aluminum baseball bat. Why not a four-foot long tentacle bat? More »
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Here comes Saints Row the Third, walking down the street without a care in the world, waving its giant purple schlong about for the whole wide world to see. Why is it in such a good mood? Perhaps the assembled game reviewers have the answer. More »
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THQ denies reports that they have mislaid 25 four-foot purple dildos destined for the Netherlands and France as part of a promotion for their open world, tongue-in-cheek video game Saints Row: The Third. More »
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A post on THQ's Insider blog, since removed, seems to have confirmed a season-ticket-style downloadable content option for next week's Saint's Row: The Third. Four expansions were mentioned, by name. More »
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In a UFC broadcast last week, THQ in slipped word of a publishing delay for UFC Undisputed 3. The game now will release on Feb. 14, after originally being planned for January. More »
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