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THQ Wireless Inc. has released Star Wars: Trench Run for iPhone and iPod touch. Priced at $4.99, the title leverages the iPhone platform to deliver simple motion controls and realistic gameplay. Developed by Infrared5 and Lucasfilm Ltd., the game is said to enable players to recreate one of their favorite scenes from... |
20 November 2009
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Metro 2033 was initially announced in 2006, but things seemed to stay quiet otherwise. It had a release date of 2008, but, when it missed it, the game completely disappeared and went into hiding. Rescued from the blizzard of nuclear ash, it has been picked up for publishing by THQ and is now promised to return to the... |
23 October 2009
02:59 GMT |
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This week Steam has a special week-long offer. Every day a different THQ game will be available for purchase as a special treat. Today the title on sale is Titan Quest Gold, and it includes the original release and the Immortal Throne expansion pack. On the Steam Store page that features the game, the special price i... |
13 October 2009
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The share value of publisher THQ has grown by 13% in trading, as more rumors appeared that the company was being considered to be a ripe target for a take-over by at least two media giants. The Wall Street Journal, which knows a thing or to when it comes to business and acquisitions, was reporting that both Time Warn... |
24 September 2009
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Fighting games have been popular for quite some time, as many people wanted to take their favorite wrestler or fighter and pulverize his opponents right from the comfort of their own home. In recent years, such titles have been real moneymakers for the companies that published them, so we'll get to see them even... |
25 August 2009
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Sports games have enjoyed a huge amount of popularity as most of the sports fans are also gamers, and thus will be more than willing to fork out money in order to lead their favorite team or athlete to victory, even if it is just a virtual one. One game that has certainly been played quite a lot, which is highlighte... |
14 August 2009
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This summer season is especially dry in terms of new game releases, but one title is certainly making a lot of profit off of this “drought” as THQ's UFC 2009: Undisputed is by far the most played game out there. The mixed martial arts title is making a big amount of money for the publisher, which has... |
4 August 2009
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Sports games are quite popular these days, substituting for many the need for sports, but also offering many fans the opportunity to lead their favorite athletes or teams to victory in various competitions. Also, the fact that you can beat other opponents in online matches and thus prove your superior skills is a maj... |
3 August 2009
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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
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THQ has announced having seen videogame sales increase in the first quarter of the current fiscal year by some 77%, reaching 243.5 million dollars. The quarter, which ended on June 30, has been one of the most successful of the last few years for the publisher and responsible for that is mainly UFC 2009: Undisputed, ... |
29 July 2009
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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
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Sports games are extremely popular these days, as almost every type of sport has seen a video game adaptation of its core concept. This is especially true when it comes to fighting games, as they combine a lot of appealing elements for regular gamers. One of the newest and most popular titles is THQ's UFC 2009 ... |
9 July 2009
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THQ has entered a law suit against its partner Jakks Pacific, with which it shares the licensing deal for the World Wrestling Entertainment franchise. The publisher is saying that Jakks has unilaterally extended the WWE licensing deal, which is a breach of the partnership between the two companies.Jakks Pacific has n... |
3 July 2009
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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
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One of the important announcements that Electronic Arts made at this year’s E3 was that it sought to expand the EA Sports line up by adding a mixed martial arts series, which would be known as EA Sports MMA.The game was said to receive the same attention that the company offers well-known franchises like Madden... |
23 June 2009
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THQ has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Marvel Entertainment that includes developing and publishing Marvel Super Hero Squad, a videogame based on a superhero television show set to arrive during the fall.The videogame should be released for the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation P... |
5 June 2009
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THQ unveiled its entry in the fitness game market at this year's E3 trade show. The publisher partnered up with NBC to create a title based on the hit TV show The Biggest Loser. The release date is set for the autumn of this year and THQ is really pulling all the stops to make the game competitive with titles li... |
5 June 2009
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THQ and Jakks Pacific are announcing that they are collaborating on creating yet another videogame in the long running WWE series. The new game is being developed for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS and the release date has been set fo... |
5 June 2009
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Red Dawn was playing up the threat of a Russian invasion of the continental United States. Homefront has taken the main concept from the cult movie and substituted the Soviet Union with North Korea. In 2027, following a long-term energy crisis, the North Koreans invade and a resistance movement appears to repulse the... |
4 June 2009
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The Warhammer 40,000 setting has offered THQ some hit releases until now, as the company has used it to create two extremely good real time strategy games.Now, the publisher is interested in developing something entirely new with the official unveiling of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, an action title that will put ... |
4 June 2009
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THQ is announcing that it plans to release a videogame called Homefront, scheduled to be launched for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC. The game is set to be developed by Kaos Studios and will have a unique story.The narrative of the videogame will be created by John Milius, who has written the screenp... |
29 May 2009
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38 Studios has announced the acquisition of developer Big Huge Games, which was the property of publisher THQ. The acquisition means that all the tools created by the developer, its assets, technology and projects that are in development are now the property of 38 Studios. The price of the transaction has not been re... |
29 May 2009
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THQ was rumored to be creating a variety of new videogames set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Leaked footage showed an action title with quite a bit of shooting. Inside sources talked about a MMO based on the Games Workshop universe. Instead, Relic developed and created Dawn of War II, a game that blended strategy... |
28 May 2009
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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
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A lot of games boast the fact that they have destroyable environments, but this feature is usually limited to a few doors and/or wooden boxes, with many other things like buildings and barricades capable of withstanding even a rocket launched straight into them. But the Red Faction series of titles has managed to ma... |
25 May 2009
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THQ has pulled one of the most outrageous publicity stunts of this year by sending Elizabeth, the Queen of England, a gold plated Nintendo Wii gaming console and a copy of the THQ published game BIG Family Games, which the Queen probably could play with her extended family.Danielle Robinson, who is a product manager ... |
25 May 2009
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50 Cent has evolved from the status of underground rapper to one fully fledged business man, managing to get his own brand or that of his entourage, G-Unit, into almost everything we see around today. Of course, video games couldn't escape from the ambitions of the artist, as he already has two titles under his ... |
13 May 2009
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Publisher THQ has announced having lost some 432 million dollars during the last fiscal year, which ended on March 31, and that it is seeing “challenging fiscal 2009” ahead. The company has also reported that total sales went down to 830 million dollars, from a previous value of 1.04 billion dollars. The ... |
8 May 2009
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As technology in consoles and PCs has progressed, it has allowed developers to create brand new things, like destructible environments, in order to make the whole experience of playing a video game much more realistic. But while a lot of titles boast such things, no series has made it that much a part of its gamepl... |
24 April 2009
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THQ has given a presentation related to its plans for the future, probably aiming to squash some of the rumors saying that the publisher is cash strapped and plans to slash quite a few of the games that are under development. And there are some real gems in that presentation. For the fiscal year of 2012, which goes ... |
6 April 2009
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It appears that THQ has decided to lay off some of the people employed by Big Huge Games, the developer studio that is wholly owned by THQ and responsible for the Rise of Nations series. Earlier, the publisher stated that it aimed to sell the development studio or to close it down as part of a strategy to focus on qu... |
2 April 2009
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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
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A while ago, in 2007, Big Huge Games announced that they planned on creating a role playing game. For a while, there was no information on the title. Ken Rolston and Mark Nelson, who had previously designed games like Morrowind and Oblivion, and who are working on the project, have recently talked a bit about it.It&#... |
31 March 2009
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THQ is apparently contemplating closing down well-known developer Big Huge Games unless it can find a buyer for the entity pretty soon. The publisher is also saying that it plans to spin off two other development studios, Heavy Iron and Incinerator, in order to limit the losses that it incurs with their operation.It ... |
18 March 2009
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Strategy titles have had a bad reputation lately, as they cater to a niche audience, as opposed to first-person shooters, which are targeted to a broader segment of the public. This is a very sad thing, but, thanks to the newer titles, its seems that Real Time Strategy (RTS) games are beginning to become as popular a... |
9 March 2009
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THQ is one of those medium publishers that seem to have been hit the hardest by the wave of the worldwide economic crisis, which swept over the videogaming industry. At one point in its existence, THQ was said to be just a little smaller than Activision but now, after the merger with Blizzard, there's a big gap ... |
9 March 2009
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We live in some very tough times, as more and more companies, regardless of their area of expertise, are affected by the worldwide recession, which is taking its toll on all industry segments. Although some analysts figured that the gaming branch of entertainment would come out relatively safe, things didn't wor... |
4 March 2009
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Sports and video games have had a very healthy and profitable relationship for quite some time. For both the organizations that sell the rights to teams, players and venues and the gaming companies that are guaranteed a big profit due to the large number of sports fans out there, everything is going very good. Witho... |
16 February 2009
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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
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Is Dawn of War II, the Relic developed and THQ published sequel one of the best designed strategy titles of the last years, just getting better and better? Just a few days ago, Relic announced that it finished the development work on Space Marine early, so the release date was pushed from February 26 to February 19 (... |
21 January 2009
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Relic Entertainment, the developer of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, has really outdone itself. The guys worked on the game with such vigor that THQ, the publisher, has just announced that it plans to release the strategy title one week earlier, on February 19. The initial release date was February 26. The ti... |
20 January 2009
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The gaming industry is always on the lookout for new popular aspects of society from which it can draw inspiration for its products. One such domain that has supplied a lot of companies with ideas for games is the sports one, with titles such as Madden NFL or FIFA gaining a huge number of fans and registering massive... |
15 January 2009
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Wrestling is becoming a very popular sport these days, particularly because it provides a great amount of entertainment and offers players interesting matches against some of the best fighters out there. All of this popularity couldn't be left unexploited by gaming companies, which were sure to make a ... |
12 January 2009
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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
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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
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THQ is driving up interest in its upcoming Dawn of War II title by announcing some nice bundles that will only be available through selected retailers. Until now, the publisher has only revealed the offers as they are available in the United Kingdom but the United States and the rest of Europe are surely set to ... |
29 December 2008
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NVIDIA's PhysX technology is enjoying increasing popularity, as the company has announced today that THQ, a global leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software, has selected the aforementioned technology to be used by its studios worldwide. With this development, THQ joins EA and 2... |
18 December 2008
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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
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The Clone Wars is another box office success that is now making its debut on mobile platforms thanks to THQ. If you're into this type of stories, and if you enjoyed the movie, you'll surely get a kick out of this miniature version of the war, where you are the leading “actor.”The game starts off... |
20 November 2008
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A host of reports say that publisher THQ has axed more than a few studios and that further cuts might be on the cards as the company is looking to cut expenses significantly in the wake of falling sales and a world wide credit crunch.Gamasutra states that Paradigm Entertainment, which was bought from Atari in 2006 an... |
4 November 2008
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