There is only one source for these rumours, Kevin Dent, a ‘ten year veteran from the digital video games industry’.
According to Kevin THQ has stopped work on the Disney license, cancelled all of their 2014 line up (including its Warhammer 40K MMO) and offered the sale of the business to Asian firms.
Just before Christmas THQ lost thirty staff after uDraw failed to perform on the PS3 and Xbox 360, however Saints Row The Third was the ninth best-selling game in the UK last year.
This year THQ have Darksiders II, Metro: The Last Light and UFC3 scheduled for release.
As always these rumours should be treated with a vat load of salt.
Source: Twitter
jayjay119
I’m pretty sure that if THQ finds themselves in a dire enough financial situation, someone willl at the very least be willing to buy their most successful IPs from them such as Saint’s Row. Eidos was bought out by Square Enix not long ago and you can guarentee Tomb Raider was a big influence on that decision. If Saint’s Row and other franchises THQ have it may not be the death of them… but THQ as we know it, that’s a different story.
PoisonedMonkey
Seems surprising given the other facts stated in the comments already. I just hope this one rumour doesn’t catch on too much and kill off people’s trust in THQ.
Rabid-Coot
Not too surprising if it is true I think they’ve been making a loss forr several years.
damoxuk
THQ is one of the worst publishers for decent IP’s imo. Apart from Relic and there 40k games THQ don;t really do many big or decent games to rival the other publishers. It’ll be a shame if they go under but hopefully Relic will go to another publisher.
Kennykazey
There haven’t been many, but the few ones are good titles. Vigil Games with Darksiders is great, then there’s also Volition with Saints Row and the future inSANE.
And the Double Fine games they’ve published have been awesome, though other publishers can handle DF games in the future, EA doesn’t seem too keen and MS keeps them exclusive.
I hope that if THQ is dieing, that some other publisher buys these studios and IPs.
jikomanzoku
Like the majority here I sincerely hope this isn’t true. If THQ fold, the UFC licence will likely end up in the hands of EA and that would be bloody awful. EA MMA was so shallow it hurt. Gaaahh!
Ne0N_420
i personally believe that IF THQ was too shut down future projects of the likes they would officially say so and not commit to work loads they can not afford, i got saints row a little after xmas as i was lost in secondlife for while but the game was almost impossible to get had to resort to getting it from argos so as far as sr3 goes its a big hit n speaking of which who would like to see professor genki get its own game i know i would !!!!!
Sympozium
Tragic I guess but its THQ..? other than Warhammer or Relic even Volitan and thats pretty much it these days.
Sad if they went
aerobes
If Metro: Last Light disappears, I won’t jump in front of a moving bus, I won’t give up games after threatening to do so and I won’t toss my cereal at the cat. I /will/ sulk a for bit. Rough times. I wish you the up and up, THQ.
Forgetive
This sucks. I’m not really a fan though. The only games they have that catch my attention are Metro & Red Faction.
I’ve noticed that THQ makes games that experiment with whats trending. Then again they’ve made games that don’t stand out well enough in single player or multiplayer.
Red Faction never really went back to what made me excited about it: being able to dig tunnels almost everywhere was awesome. An FPS digging game… put in some resource collecting, base building & friends & you get some type of mining & crafting game.
Awayze
Good. Serves them right for using Online Passes. Hope EA’s next one day.
Omac_brother
Thats a really silly comment. You want games publishers to go under? Your saying that because of online passes you dont want Darksiders 2 or Metro 2033 to see the light of day? Online passes ensure that publishers and developers get the money they deserve for putting in a lot of time, effort and money developing these titles. Its a bane, I agree, having to buy games new instead of second hand, but its a small price to pay to keep new games coming our way.
Awayze
Meh, I don’t care if studios go under unless I like them aka Sony Studios like Naughty Dog
Omac_brother
Naughty Dog wouldnt be pushing the bounderies to make better games if it wasnt for their competition from EA, Activision and THQ studios. Studio closures are never good.
djhsecondnature
@Awayze – What a sad and idiotic comment.
cc_star
The very same Naughty Dog who coded online passes into Uncharted 3? Seems some mighty fine double standards there.