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THQ has shut the doors to two of its Australian studios this week, as well as a development team in Phoenix totalling 200 employees gone. The two Australian studios to close their doors are THQ Studio Australia in Brisbane, which closes today, and BlueTongue Entertainment in Melbourne, which will go …
Read More »Publisher shares plummet amid panic trading
EA stock down 9%; Activision down 5%; Take-Two down 9%; THQ down 8%; FTSE suffers record losses
Read More »Axed THQ Warrington chiefs open outsource studio
D3T offers design, development, porting and bug fixing services
Read More »INTERVIEW: Martin Good, THQ
For all its focus on core gaming, THQ still has a very successful and growing kids, family and casual business. Christopher Dring quizzes the division’s executive vice president Martin Good It is easy to forget with all the Homefront hype, Saints Row momentum and endless Danny Bilson interviews that there …
Read More »Wii U wont kill uDraw
The Wii U tablet doesnot spell doom for THQ’s uDraw plans – in factquite the opposite. As demonstrated at E3 in June, Nintendo’s new home console features a tablet that can be used for drawing – much like the uDraw gaming tablet – leading press and consumers to speculate it …
Read More »THQ: MX vs ATV DLC experiment was unsuccessful
Brian Farrell, CEO of THQ, has declared that the new DLC-centric business model it attempted with MX vs ATV Alive was "not a successful experiment". The publisher announced earlier this year that it would release the off-road racer at a reduced RRP and drive revenue with regular waves of downloadable …
Read More »Volition in transition as THQ scraps Red Faction
Staff move onto Guillermo del Toro trilogy, due for release from 2013
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: THQ hiring Analyst, Le Duc joins Gem, Namco promotes Bradley
In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, THQ is seeking an analyst and Gem has hired a new PR and marketing manager. THQ HIRING EUROPEAN ANALYST Homefront and uDraw publisher THQ is looking for a European market analyst to join its UK team. The …
Read More »THQ reports disappointing Q1, abandons Red Faction
Just a year ago Red Faction was being touted as THQ’s golden child. It had a TV series on SyFy, it had a brand new game that hoped to build on the success of the impressive Red Faction: Guerrilla. But how quickly things change. Last night THQ reported a disappointing …
Read More »MCVs UFC Industry Fitness Challenge: Week Three
It looks like things have gone a little off the rails in the third week of our challenge, with reports emerging of injuries and binge eating. The tough-talking Neil Gorton from Ginx TV has found that no amount of Bin Kicking and Microwave Dinging can save him from the limitations …
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