PlayStation

The Spartans Will Fight In The (Correct) Shade In NCAA Football 13

News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • Here’s something I never really noticed before: Michigan State wore an incorrect green in NCAA Football. Their fans, as you might imagine, take that very seriously.


News

Speculation: Marvel To Buy THQ And Make Video Games In-House

THQ’s in dire straits, financially. Marvel — now a wholly owned division of Disney — has lots and lots of money. Maybe, if one buys the other, they hold hands and make beautiful games together?


April 18, 2012
PlayStation

Death Comes A Little Later As Darksiders II Release Slips From June To August

THQ has announced a new release window for their fantasy action sequel on the newly launched official site for Darksiders II. Previously announced for a June 26 launch, the game is now due out sometime in August, with exact dates varying by region.


April 12, 2012
News

Darksiders II’s New RPG Elements Lets You Customize Your Own Death

The first Darksiders won a loyal following of fans for its badass remix of the Legend of Zelda’s dungeon-crawling gameplay. But you couldn’t really differentiate the way that main character War played. He was a bruiser with weapons that worked the same way for everyone. But Death will be more individualized, once players get their hands on the new lead character.


April 6, 2012
News

Take-Two Boss Apologises For Giving THQ Six Months To Live

The slinging-handbags fight that boiled up when Take-Two Interactive honcho Strauss Zelnick gave THQ six months to live has been, officially and semi-politely, resolved.


News

Grand Theft Auto Publisher: ‘THQ Won’t Be Around In Six Months’

Speaking at an MIT conference today, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two and publisher of Grand Theft Auto, criticised the practices of THQ, the company behind Saint’s Row. Zelnick predicted that the struggling THQ won’t last much longer.


March 30, 2012
News

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Goes Single-Player As Layoffs Hit Relic And Vigil

The fate of the Warhammer 40,000 MMO has been revealed: It’s no longer a Warhammer 40,000 MMO. THQ has announced Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium has been “refocused” as a single-player action game with multiplayer elements, a change that brings with it substantial layoffs at developers Vigil Games and Relic Entertainment.


March 23, 2012
PC

It Takes A Pretty Big Boss Monster To Face Down Darksiders II’s Death

In this adorably gory trailer for THQ’s Darksiders II, our hero Death finally runs into a creature he can’t take out with a single savage slash. We’re going to need a bigger scythe.


March 6, 2012
News

THQ Sued For $10 Million Because It Didn’t Make A Video Game

A few years back, beleagured publisher THQ signed a deal with Adidas to make a fitness game based on the German firm’s miCoach technology. The deal was that game had to be on shelves by January 2012. It’s not, and is nowhere to be seen, so either THQ forgot all about it, or there were serious problems at THQ.


PC

You Will Believe Four Young Boys Can Save The World From Redheads

Kenny, Kyle, Cartman and Stan join forces to defeat Tenorman’s Ginger Army in South Park: The Game. How? Perhaps these latest screens can shed some light.