THQ’s latest game Biomutant leaked through a German magazine over the weekend, and the company went ahead and owned up on the leak, confirming its existence with a sweet reveal trailer. The open world game takes place in the far, post-apocalyptic future, but instead of the generic Fallout setting you’ve become accustomed to, this game features kung-fu, giant monsters, ample green...
When THQ went bankrupt several years ago, it took with it a lot of dashed dreams and failed franchises that wound up in the hands of others. Even to this day, we are learning more and more about the fallout from the publisher going under with the most recent bit of news coming from Unseen 64. Did you know that THQ had a contract to make a massive Avengers video game for the PlayStation...
The former publisher THQ has finally been put to rest thanks to a judge approving its liquidation plan. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary F. Walrath of Wilmington, DE gave the green light to the plan which will pay a long list of creditors a piece of the $78.6 million THQ was able to raise selling off its franchises and other properties. $72 million of the funds were raised selling off...
SEGA purchased Relic Entertainment and the Company of Heroes series off of THQ during the company's bankruptcy auction back in January. Since then, Company of Heroes 2 has launched, but SEGA is looking to reclaim money THQ received through pre-orders it made from Steam with a lawsuit filed in the Delaware US Bankruptcy Court. 20,755 copies were reportedly pre-ordered through Steam...
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...
All of the remaining assets owned by the former publisher THQ have been auctioned off, but one huge question mark has been hanging over one of its most classic series. Homeworld, a space-opera RTS, has been bought by Gearbox. The same studio that brought about the wonderful Borderlands and the abysmal Aliens Colonial: Marines. The confirmation first came from independent publishers Team...
When THQ went down in flames, one major franchise a lot of gamers were worried about was Saints Row. This series went from being a laughable GTA wannabe to becoming one of the greatest and silliest open world titles on the market. Volition was acquired by Koch Media during the THQ auction. Koch Media is the company that owns Deep Silver, the publisher behind titles like Dead Island....
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...
One of the forgotten victims in the whole THQ auction mess was the Homeworld series. I have to admit, it completely slipped under my radar as well. I know the series and the games, but I was unaware of THQ being the owners. At any rate, nobody decided to purchase the rights to the franchise and its fate resides in limbo while the bankruptcy process continues. A small group of indie...
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...