Juiced (the franchise) dead; Juice Games (the studio) not dead
Despite THQ giving up on their street-racing franchise Juiced, they're keeping series' developer – and new winner of the shortsighted studio naming award – Juice Games around to develop two unannounced games that, managing director Colin Bell tells GamesIndustry.biz, are "very fresh and exciting." Bell was rather candid about the less-than-stellar commercial success of the Juiced franchise and the "sound commercial reasons" that prompted the abandonment of the franchise. We're just hopeful that structural changes at the studio to support two development projects will result in at least one game that satisfies the publisher's newfound desire for original IPs and product quality.











Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Juice @ Jan 24th 2008 1:33PM
First and named!
AlexP @ Jan 24th 2008 1:43PM
Shitty franchise was shitty.
Jack @ Jan 24th 2008 2:02PM
This a good day in the industry. The more crappy franchises die, the better.
BPM4:Guns of the Idiots @ Jan 24th 2008 2:16PM
"Fresh and exciting"?
More like... "New and exiciting," am I right?
Rocketboy @ Jan 24th 2008 2:31PM
I thought Juiced was DOA to begin with?
OJ says, "Juciced franchise, you've just been juiced!"
chenry @ Jan 24th 2008 3:10PM
And nothing of value was lost.