THQ may not be doing so well financially, but the company doesn't want you to think it's down and out. In fact, it wants you to know it's planning for the future -- the distant future even! Announcing projected titles for the fiscal year ending 2012 (that's April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012, folks) like Darksiders 2 and Red Faction 4, the company clearly hasn't written itself off yet. Hell, it's projecting titles that are still unproven intellectual properties!
Filed away in the middle of a more than a month-old investor's report, GameSpot found a slide revealing four full years of projected THQ releases. Though the slide notes, "Release schedule subject to change," we were shocked enough to learn the company's planning sequels to games that have yet to be released. For THQ's investor's sakes, let's hope Darksiders and Red Faction: Guerrilla turn out to be the cash cows the company apparently anticipates them to be.
[Via GameSpot]
Reader Comments (11)
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 9:14PM cuteSAVAGE said
I have really high hopes for Darksiders, glad to hear THQ does as well.
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 9:26PM original fred said
Darksiders looks so damn awesome
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 9:32PM warxroutione said
gotta be honest after the ostrich hammer, i really am gonna go and buy RF:guerrilla,..
perhaps thq will win big.
perhaps thq will win big.
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 9:34PM warxroutione said
ostrich hammer video^^
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 9:41PM PantsParty said
Anyone can announce games, I mean, they can send out reports to the media saying whatever they want. But it's positive optimistic thinking by THQ, which is good.
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 9:44PM RKN said
Woah, crawl before you walk THQ!
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 11:23PM dr steve brule said
that's what im thinking ... think think because they make an ostrich hammer they can do anything now.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2009 10:13PM SheppyReturns said
Truth be told the only Volition games I never cared much for were Summoner 2 and Punisher. So hearing they have more down the line (those I know inside the studio won't tell me nuttin... just that they have more in the pipeline) is good news. It's always great to hear THQ appreciates them.
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 11:00PM Ricky Bango said
I doubt they are too concerned about "proving" their intellectual properties. Bad games get sequels all the time, and so do games with poor sales. And if Red Faction 2 was enough of a "cash cow" to warrant a sequel, well...the bar seems to be fairly reasonably set.
Posted: Apr 1st 2009 11:02PM DBuckEye said
Maybe they'll bring back Red Faction Wii. The prototype looked pretty bad ass.
Posted: Apr 2nd 2009 12:08AM wshwe said
None of this matters because THQ is about to go under.




