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THQ Will Profit from UFC 2009: Undisputed

THQ has just launched the first videogames it has created using the UFC license, called Undisputed, and it’s preparing for the release of Red Faction: Guerrilla. These are two of the most important titles the publisher is set to get out this year, so analysts are watching their performance closely and the resul...

26 May 2009
03:20 GMT

Ubisoft Registers Driver: The Recruit

Ubisoft has apparently registered a new trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office database for “Driver: The Recruit.” It's nice to see that Ubisoft is finally doing something with the franchise that it picked up from Atari about three years ago, soon after the disastrous release of...

29 April 2009
02:27 GMT

Saints Row 2 Shifts over 2.6 Million Units

The sandbox action adventure genre has been dominated by the Grand Theft Auto franchise, the brainchild of the Rockstar team. But as time passed, some companies decided that a fresh take, one filled with much more fun activities was needed to attract gamers. As such, the Volition studio decided to create the Saints R...

6 February 2009
11:11 GMT

Saints Row 2

Sandbox adventure games have been, for quite some time, synonymous with Rockstar's very popular Grand Theft Auto franchise. Since GTA III, a first 3D installment in the series, people have always weighed other titles against it, with the most common result being that these titles couldn't compare to it. Wit...

6 February 2009
04:59 GMT

Neverwinter Nights 2: The Burden of Loot

My cousin, who is the same age as me, taught me to play Diablo and love loot. True story. We were young and I thought videogames meant strategy titles. She was young and only played one computer game: the first Diablo.To this day, my cousin has only played light dungeon running games like the Diablo series (she'...

20 January 2009
16:41 GMT

Weekend Reading: Are Games Too Realistic?

This is a relatively new game debate that has sparked a lot of controversy and fierce arguments among a lot of industry analysts and experts. On one side, games aim to deliver a more lifelike experience so that players would be able to identify themselves with the characters they are controlling. Things like realisti...

17 January 2009
06:01 GMT

One Hour With: Saints Row 2

The open world sandbox genre of games is currently dominated by Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto franchise. It took realism and story telling to new heights with its recent iteration, Grand Theft Auto IV, but, as some fans and critics said, it lost its amusing features and it took itself too seriously.  That�...

9 January 2009
15:01 GMT

Saints Row 2 Hits Steam, Already Cracked and up for Download

The sandbox genre of games has been dominated for quite some time by the Grand Theft Auto franchise. No matter what they did, developers just couldn't defeat Rockstar's great series, but, as it seems, the way to beat it is by offering gamers a much more amusing experience, as Saints Row 2 did. The game was...

8 January 2009
13:01 GMT

Saints Row 2 PC Gets System Requirements

The open-world sandbox game genre is a pretty big one, with quite a lot of titles promising to deliver the most realistic world to the players. However, as the Grand Theft Auto franchise has set the benchmark in regard to the most realistic sandbox experience, other developers can only try to bring something new. Th...

30 December 2008
02:27 GMT

New In-Game Territory for Microsoft

While continually racing after Google in terms of online advertising and the search engine market, Microsoft has its own space where it is the ad-serving leader. When it comes down to in-game advertising, Massive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, has been continually growing its list of partners, with THQ as t...

24 November 2008
10:31 GMT

Fable II Dominates October's Game Chart

Following the release of the hardware sales chart for October, which has seen the Nintendo Wii dominate its rivals, and the Xbox 360 outselling the PlayStation 3 two to one, the NPD Group has also released data regarding the videogames chart. The big winner is Fable II from Lionhead and Microsoft, which has sold almo...

14 November 2008
13:01 GMT

Far Cry 2 Sells More than One Million

Ubisoft announces that Far Cry 2 has broken through the one million sales barrier less than three weeks after the game was released worldwide. The game is available for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 and Ubisoft is now willing to say which platform generated the most sales, even though we're willing ...

12 November 2008
05:25 GMT

Developer Talks About the Changes in Saints Row 2

The first Saints Row game was a pretty entertaining one – it didn't take itself too seriously, yet it attracted players who, at that time, were still waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV to appear. The second game in the franchise, which was recently launched, managed to achieve some very decent sales and, with...

29 October 2008
03:13 GMT

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Leads UK Charts

The United Kingdom videogame chart is a good indicator of how the various releases are doing this fall. After all, the NPD Group data for the North American market is coming out only once a month, while this chart is released weekly. So, let's take a look.The big news is that Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 from Konam...

23 October 2008
19:01 GMT

Saints Row 2 Condemned by New York Police

Although THQ's new sandbox Grand Theft Auto-like game, Saints Row 2, has been on the store shelves for just two days, the title is already surrounded by controversy. Even though it was bound to happen, this one seems pretty serious, as it doesn't come from anti-game fanatics like Jack Thompson, but from the...

16 October 2008
12:01 GMT

WALL-E Bright Spot in Gloomy THQ Report

THQ is another one of the companies that have presented financial information this week for the quarter that ended on June 30. The publisher is sending word that it managed to increase its earnings over 2007 by more than 33% to reach the sum of 137 million dollars.The main performer in THQ's line-up was the vide...

1 August 2008
14:06 GMT

Saints Row 2 Is Very Different from GTA IV

Saints Row was praised by some for taking the open world concept developed by the GTA series and crafting a more appealing ambience, where band warfare and a light take on the story created an interesting game atmosphere. Now Saints Row 2 is being prepped by THQ for release on the PC, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 3...

25 June 2008
16:36 GMT

Saints Row 2 Confirmed for PC

With no official confirmation yet on Grand Theft Auto IV heading to the PC, gamers will be happy to know that one of the more GTA-like games out there, Saints Row, is coming to the PC. Even if initial reports only hinted at Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 versions for Saints Row 2, a THQ spokesperson has co...

4 June 2008
18:06 GMT

THQ Confirms Saints Row 2 for 2008

THQ has officially revealed today that the sequel to Saints Row, Saints Row 2 is set for a 2008 release. The game is set to deliver genre-defining features for next-gen systems PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Saints Row 2 is currently under development over at THQ's internal studio, Volition, using their proprietary...

24 September 2007
07:08 GMT

Saints Row 2 Confirmed for PS3 and Xbox 360

THQ's Saints Row was announced in January to move from the console it was originally launched on, Microsoft's Xbox 360, to Sony's PS3. People said OK raising their shoulders. Recently however, THQ has announced to everyone's surprise the canceling of Saints Row PS3 and that Saints Row 2 is to app...

11 May 2007
05:07 GMT


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