In Real Life

In A Prior Life, This Video Game Executive Made Awesome Movies


May 23, 2012
Xbox

Three Dollars Adds A Pack Of Penthouse Pets To Saints Row The Third

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.


May 17, 2012
PC

Saints Row 4 For Current Generation Consoles Shows Up On LinkedIn

With THQ recently dropping its delightful yet unprofitable kids’ games in favour of working on games that actually make money, it’s only a matter of time before the developer’s best-selling franchise gets a third sequel. Time and the work of Saints Row 4 lead prop and weapon artist David Payne.


May 16, 2012
News

South Park RPG Bumped Back To Next Year

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.


May 13, 2012
e3 2012

Is This Year The Last Hurrah For The Games Expo As We Know It?

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.


May 6, 2012
Xbox

Xbox Live Listing Outs The South Park RPG’s Name: The Stick Of Truth

Though there has yet to be an announcement from developer Obsidian Entertainment or publisher THQ, the upcoming role-playing game set in the South Park continuity appears to have a name, according to an early listing on the Xbox Live Marketplace. It’s “The Stick of Truth”.


May 5, 2012
PC

Company Of Heroes 2 Begins War On Gaming Press

Early this morning a delivery person showed up at my door with shocking news: HITLER BEGINS WAR ON RUSSIA. Either that was the world’s most delinquent paper boy, or THQ really wants us to get excited about Company of Heroes 2.


May 4, 2012
News

THQ Won’t Have A Booth At E3 This Year

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.


April 30, 2012
PC

THQ Shovels Out Its Shovelware Division

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.


April 23, 2012
In Real Life

Riot Cops, Student Protesters Lock Down THQ’s New Video Game Studio

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.