“HD remaster” is now a buzzword of the past. Nowadays, it’s all about that 4K resolution support. Every game is looking to hit the magic number on the PlayStation 4 Pro and PC, even Darksiders! The latest game to get 4K support is this sleeper hit from 2010. It’s an odd choice, but because of comparisons to The Legend of Zelda back when it was first released and a genuinely good single...
The day THQ closed down was a sad one. The company had been the source of a variety of fan favorites in the years preceding the shut down. Many of those games were snapped up immediately and have seen release since the publisher shut down in January 2013, with South Park: The Stick of Truth being particularly notable. We had to wait a bit longer, but games like Red Faction and...
Over the last year or so, THQ entered a world of financial ruin. From falling stock prices to the eventual bankruptcy of the company, the publisher and all of its licenses went down. The good news for fans of their games was that other companies would be able to pick up the licenses in a publicly held auction. The hope being, of course, that every major game found a home with some...
Most of THQ and their largest properties have already been bought up and distributed by many of the biggest publishers out there. However, a lot of surprisingly good name recognition still remains on the table from games that didn't get bought up the first time through. Either EA, Activision, and the other big kids on the block either genuinely don't want these titles, or they are...
I had called Darksiders to be one of the hottest commodities available during the great THQ auction which occurred last month, and I predicted it to fly off the shelf at a high price. However, I must have been the only one, considering how Vigil Games was shelved and the IP was scrapped for financing. It appears Crytek, the creator of many high end shooters such as the Crysis series,...
Think about Bayonetta for a second. Then Metal Gear Rising, Vanquish, and The Wonderful 101. Now, think about Darksiders. Can you imagine them living together, in perfect harmony? Platinum Games' head Atsushi Inaba can. In a tweet posted earlier today, Inaba expressed–in Japanese–disbelief that the Darksiders IP and studio Vigil remained unsold after the THQ auction. He said, too, that...
Now that the dust has settled on THQ's breakup and subsequent auction, we have a pretty clear image of where each franchise did (or didn't) land. We're breaking down where each of the studios and their franchises went, and how much they were purchased for. Relic goes to Sega for $26.6 million. Relic is the studio responsible for the Company of Heroes franchise. Company of Heroes 2...
Let's start with the good, shall we? Right now you can go to HumbleBundle.com and pay whatever you want (as long as it's more than $1) for four fantastic THQ games and a little more. Those games are Darksiders, Metro 2033, Red Faction: Armageddon and Company of Heroes with two of its expansions. Beat the average price spent at your purchase and you'll score Saints Row: The Third. The...
The folks at THQ sent around a press release regarding future pre-orders for Darksiders II. The sequel to the year before last’s surprise hit, developed by Vigil Games and launched in January of 2010, is scheduled to release on June 26th, 2012. If you pre-order the game, you’ll automatically receive a free upgrade to the Limited Edition. The Limited Edition, as the title of this story...
Over the course of the weekend, specifically on January 15th, rumors began to pop up concerning the future fate of THQ, the game publishing company. THQ is responsible for titles like Saints Row, Homefront, Darksiders, UFC, all of the wrestling games you play today, Red Faction and, perhaps less famously, the uDraw Tablet. Kevin Dent, IGDA Mobile SIG lead, began Tweeting some...