THQ continues to milk the living hell out of its best thing going with today’s release of the Penthouse Pack for Saint’s Row the Third, bolstering the ranks of players’ gangs with a quartet of models from America’s minor league nudie mag.
THQ will release Obsidian’s upcoming South Park RPG in 2013, it said during its earnings conference call today. It was previously slated for 2012.
I had lunch with a friend and colleague on Thursday, a guy who has been to every E3 — and before that he was going to the Consumer Electronics Show when it was the gaming industry’s big expo. Absent some miracle hardware reveal, he thinks we could see the quietest and most depressing E3 ever this year. I hate to say it, but I have the same fear.
Saints Row and Darksiders publisher THQ won’t have a booth at E3 this year, a change from the bombastic presence they’ve embraced in past years. THQ has recently found itself in dire financial straits.
Continuing an internal reorganisation that has seen casual titles tossed out in favour of a focus on more core video gaming titles, THQ has jettisoned its ValuSoft division. ValuSoft, per its name, was the publisher’s “value” label, which is a polite term for shovelware that grandmas bought their grandkids at discount stores.
On Friday, THQ’s Montreal Studio — the big, fancy, new setup that Patrice is running — spent part of the day locked down as students and riot police clashed on the street directly outside its offices.