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Volition Inc. the studio behind the upcoming Saints Row 3: The Third open world action title, confessed that the Geomod engine, previously used on titles from the Red Faction franchise, like Guerrilla or Armageddon, was considered for the new Saints Row game.One of the most outlandish games scheduled to arrive this f... |
3 October 2011
03:59 GMT |
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THQ has announced, during its pretty gloomy financial earnings report, that it has decided to kill the Red Faction franchise, mainly due to poor sales of the last two titles released in the long-running series, Guerrilla and Armageddon.
THQ has tried to restructure itself and take on large scale games publishers l... |
29 July 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ has announced worse than expected financial results for the first fiscal quarter of this year, which ended on June 30, saying that it has seen a loss of 38.45 million dollars, which is an increase of more than 28 percent over the loss seen in the same period of 2010.
THQ has also reported ... |
28 July 2011
15:01 GMT |
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It's the start of July and this month is best known in the video game world for offering the last chance for a pause in gaming before the big line ups of the fall season come closer and closer.
But there's no time to rest here at Softpedia as we deliver a review for Duke Nukem Forever and one for Red Fac... |
3 July 2011
06:01 GMT |
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The Red Faction series carved its own niche ever since the inception of the franchise back in 2001, by letting players interact with the environment in new and exciting ways. And when we mean interact, we mean tear everything down with a big hammer until there's nothing left.
2009's Red Faction: Guerrill... |
30 June 2011
08:45 GMT |
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THQ and Volition's Red Faction series has always stood out, largely because of its unique experience, which combines the setting of the planet Mars with the possibility of destroying pretty much any part of your environment through a variety of means.
2008's Red Faction: Guerrilla brought the series to t... |
13 June 2011
10:05 GMT |
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Red Faction: Armageddon, the newest destruction-based open world title from Volition and THQ, has just been delayed by a week, but gamers will still be able to get a taste of its action through a demo that will be released tomorrow, May 3.
Red Faction: Armageddon is set to take the new types of destruction mechani... |
2 May 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Red Faction: Armageddon is rapidly nearing completion, so THQ has just revealed the release date for the title as well as its very attractive cover.
THQ, the game's publisher, and Volition, its developer, have been working hard on implementing new features into the classic Red Faction recipe, in order to capi... |
24 February 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Publisher THQ has announced that its shooter Red Faction: Armageddon would be delayed from its current launched date of March 2011 to May of the same year, taking it out of its current fiscal year in a move which is predicted to see net sales fall from 825 to about 800 million dollars when March 31, 2011 rolls around... |
14 September 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Volition, the developer of series like Saints Row and Red Faction, is looking for a new Design Director that should play a leading role in the development of a new, unannounced action game that also has role playing elements.Volition is a busy company at the moment, with work on Red Faction: Armageddon and Saints Row... |
16 August 2010
02:51 GMT |
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THQ seems really interested in making Red Faction Armageddon one of the biggest game launches of March 2011. The publisher has announced that it is working with the SyFy channel, which specializes in science fiction content, to produce a full length Red Faction movie that will be launched during the same week as the ... |
29 June 2010
13:41 GMT |
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THQ has formally announced a new videogame in the Red Faction series. It will be called Armaggedon and the reveal trailer offers a bit of information on what it will be offering, even though the company is not saying what platforms it is targeting and when it is set to launch.The developer has opted for fast for... |
7 June 2010
05:37 GMT |
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It seems that publisher THQ is ready to announce something interesting related to Red Faction, its action franchise that managed quite good reviews and sales with the launch of the third game, Guerrilla. The company has registered two online addresses linked with Red Faction, Origins and Armageddon, making sure to ge... |
4 May 2010
07:57 GMT |
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It seems that Trion is not the only videogaming company working on creating a connection between its intellectual property and the NBC Universal channel Syfy. There's a big change of actually seeing a Red Faction-inspired mini series on the science fiction-themed channel after the initial movie based on the vide... |
28 April 2010
13:01 GMT |
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THQ has announced that it plans to release a new Red Faction title in the period between April 1, 2010 and March 31, 2011, which is fiscal 2011, while a new videogame in the Saints Row franchise will be coming sometime after April 1, 2011. These wide release schedules appear in a conference call attended by top THQ p... |
5 February 2010
03:45 GMT |
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When it first came out in 2001, Red Faction had one of the most impressive physics engine ever made. The level of destruction one could inflict on the environment was truly massive, and, even if it single-handedly made the game famous, not much happened with it afterwards. The Red Faction destruction-fest didn't... |
23 December 2009
03:05 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 first met with Games on Demand in August, and now Microsoft is ready to move the Game for Windows service into Live mode as well. The company has decided that it's time to push the service into major digital-distribution-gear, so, starting December 15, you'll be able to purchase more than just ... |
4 December 2009
06:56 GMT |
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More smash and bang is about to become available for Red Faction: Guerrilla fans as, after already releasing two DLC packs, game developer Volition revealed that a third one was in the making. The DLC will be called The Smasher Pack and will continue to march on the same road the previous one did. With a focus on mul... |
28 September 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Red Faction: Guerrilla has proved to be a plucky game. The action title set on Mars, which pits the player as a freedom fighter confronting the fascist-like EDF forces, managed to sell more than 1 million titles since it was released in June and made a good showing in the June NPD Group numbers, on both the Xbox 360 ... |
31 July 2009
13:11 GMT |
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The summer season isn't one filled with high-quality blockbuster releases, as many companies tend to delay or scheduled their titles before the winter holiday season, when people are much more likely to drop big money on their favorite hobbies, including gaming. But one of the few interesting releases of the su... |
20 July 2009
02:45 GMT |
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Destructible environments are boasted by a lot of video games these days, but none takes it as far as the recent Red Faction: Guerrilla video title, which was developed by Volition and published by THQ. The game started a new story, set years after the action of the first two titles, but sharing the same basic conce... |
1 July 2009
11:01 GMT |
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The Sims 3 is set to be huge. On its first day on sales, the Electronic Arts and Maxis made life simulator managed to go to the top of the United Kingdom videogame chart, displacing UFC 2009: Undisputed, the THQ made fighting game.THQ must be a little upset that Red Faction: Guerrilla, its open world shooter set on M... |
11 June 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Destructible environments. Almost every new game boasts this attribute in order to attract more people to buy it. Most of the times though, these environments range from a few doors to boxes or specific walls that allow you to break them with certain weapons or tools. But Volition's Red Faction franchise change... |
19 April 2009
13:31 GMT |
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THQ, as the publisher, and Volition, as the developer, are announcing that they plan to launch Red Faction: Guerrilla on June 9. The videogame is set to arrive on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC. Volition only recently confirmed the date but retailers have been listing it for some time. It also seems that ... |
1 April 2009
14:11 GMT |
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The idea of user generated content seems to be gaining more and more ground. And even videogaming, a domain which seemed to renegade players to create content only by modding and playing around with already released games, is beginning to open up and involve fans more and more in the design phase. Recently we h... |
18 September 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Red Faction is a first-person shooter video game that was released in 2001 for the PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh by THQ and Volition. A version for the Nokia N-Gage was developed by Monkeystone Games. And the game was re-developed as a top-down shooter for the mobile phone version.Red Faction takes ... |
11 February 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Red Faction takes place on Mars in the 22nd century. The player controls a miner named Parker who helps lead a rebellion against the Ultor Corporation. The premiere feature of the game is its "Geo-Mod" technology, short for "geometry modification", which allowed the player to destroy certain sections of the scenery i... |
11 July 2007
08:54 GMT |
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