Rumour: THQ In Trouble?

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

 

37 Comments

  1. This really is a shame for the employees of THQ, I have lots and lots of sympathy for them, however I cant say Im surprised that THQ is in trouble. They have a had a good few franchises in the past but, Saints Row aside, they’ve done well to more or less kill them off, Red Faction specifically. That coupled with their reliance on below-par games licensed from entertainment franchises has not done them any good.
    I’d really like to see someone come in and turn the company around, get THQ away from relying on licenses and get them focussing their efforts on established good franchises like Red Faction and Saints Row, plus some good new innovative stuff

  2. Anyone else notice how it is becoming more and more as if it will be just EA vs Activision in a few years, with all other publishers possibly owned by these two big companies?

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