As you’ve probably heard, THQ has filed for bankruptcy and its assets are now being sold off to the highest bidder. There are apparently five interested parites all currently bidding for the rights to loot THQ’s corpse, and one of those groups is Warner Bros. Games, …
Despite the apparent success of the Humble THQ Bundle and other desperate gambles made to keep the company fiscally solvent, THQ announced today that they have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. A press release from THQ says that the company filed for bankruptcy in order to …
It was only a few weeks ago that we were taking bets as to when THQ would either be acquired by another company or simply collapse all together. It seems, however, that the floundering company still has some fight left in them, raising over $5 million …
The pay-what-you-want Humble THQ Bundle was already a good deal, but today it got even better: THQ has added their Diablo-esque hack and slash RPG Titan Quest to the package, as well as some DLC for Red Faction: Armageddon.
Despite the fact that Saints Row: The Third has sold 5 million units and that Darksiders 2 has been given a completely respectable 84 on Metacritic, THQ’s stock has tanked nearly 50% since yesterday, down from $3.02 a share to $1.69. To put these numbers in …
THQ has been on thin ice for the last few years: despite publishing popular games like the Saints Row and Company of Heroes series’, the company has struggled to turn a profit, and even faced a delisting from the NASDAQ. Today, THQ announced that despite the …
If Darksiders 3 ever gets made, it’ll do so without the work of Joe Madureira, the comic book artist who defined the series’ visual style and the co-founder of Vigil Games.
Most of the big publishers have struggled to remain solvent in this economy, but THQ has been hit especially hard in recent years. Despite some surprise hits like the Saints Row series, THQ has had to shut-down many of their development studios in order to remain …
THQ can’t seem to catch a break recently, as the company let go over 100 employees from Vigil Games (best known for their work on Darksiders,) and Relic Studios (Company of Heroes.) The massive layoffs happened simultaneously with the announcement that the long awaited Warhammer MMO …
THQ, the publisher behind titles like Saints Row: The Third and the WWE franchise, has certainly seen better days in the financial world.