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THQ drops kid’s licensed games after Saints Row 3 ships 3.8 million
After struggling financially in 2011, THQ has announced a new focus for their game development divisions. From this point forward, the company will focus solely on “core games” by moving away from kid’s licensed games. THQ has published dozens of Nickelodeon-branded games over the years and, until 2010, published and developed games based on Pixar’s films.
This decision was likely spurred on by the huge sales of Saints Row: The Third, which has shipped 3.8 million copies since its release in November.
“THQ will be a more streamlined organization focused only on our strongest franchises. The success of Saints Row: The Third is an example of what our revised strategy and focus can achieve,” said Brian Farrell, THQ’s President and CEO.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Saints Row: The Third
Daily Scoop: January 25, 2012 – Encounters returns!
My favorite local board game store, Redcap’s Corner, re-opens today! That means D&D encounters returns tonight with a vengeance. I’m excited to see all my friends again and get back into the campaign! A campaign in which we are a party of pixies. We’re high-pitched and ready to wreck your day.
Lots of deals at Amazon following their ginormous Gold Box Event! The Deal of the Day in video games is the game of the year edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum. It’s just $14.99 today for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. They’ve also got three PC download sales. The first two are both by Sega – Total War: Shogun 2 and Sonic Generations, both for $14.99. The last one is EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion, and it’s on sale from $14.99 to… $14.95? What a deal?
Amazon also has their new weekly deals up. They’ve got a deal for $50 Off the Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Value Bundle with Kinect, and $30 Off the Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures!. They’ve also got Modern Warfare 2 for $19.99 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, as well as $24.99 for Call of Duty: Black Ops Used from Warehouse Deals. That’s a lot of deals!
Today’s shirt is all about Metroid: (more…)
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News, PS3, Xbox 360
Complete CoD Modern Warfare 3 DLC schedule detailed
Activision has unleashed the complete schedule for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3‘s DLC Content Season. Over the next nine months, Modern Warfare 3 players will receive over 20 pieces of downloadable content. And of course, Xbox 360-owning Elite users will have access to the content first.
So without further adieu, here’s what CoD soldiers can expect and when they can expect to play it:
- January: “Liberation” map, “Piazza” map
- February: one map
- March: one map, two missions
- April: two maps
- May: one map, one mission
- June: one map, one mission, one mode
- July: two maps
- August: one map, one mission, one mode
- September: one map, one mission
As always, non-Elite subscribers will find out when they can download this DLC… soon.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Tetris, Black Ops DLC lead all PlayStation Store purchases in 2011
For over 20 years, Tetris has captivated the world. And in 2011, it sank its tetrahedronal teeth into PS3 gamers all over again as the vintage puzzler managed to outsell every other PSN game on the PlayStation Store. Sing it with me!
Doo, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do, dododo.
The data comes from a Game Informer report listing the ten best-selling PSN games for 2011. Other top ten contenders include the Resident Evil 4 HD remake, the InFamous 2 standalone expansion InFamous: Festival of Blood, and Telltale’s Back to the Future adaptation.
You can find the full list, as well as a look at the bestselling DLC add-ons, after the break. (more…)
QuakeCon 2012 rumbles into Dallas August 2-5
Are you ready to throw down in the world’s biggest BYOC (Bring-Your-Own-Computer) LAN party? If so, listen up, as id Software, and parent company Bethesda Softworks, have announced the dates for this year’s QuakeCon.
QuakeCon 2012 will be held at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas from August 2-5. As always, admission will be free, so be nice to all the volunteers at the event.
In addition to the BYOC LAN party, Bethesda Softworks will offer the first chance anywhere for gamers to get their hands on upcoming titles, and leading technology companies will be on hand to demonstrate their latest hardware and software. All three days of QuakeCon will also include a ton of contests, live entertainment, announcements, panel discussions, and parties.
Sounds like fun! And maybe id will re-announce the supposedly unannounced (but actually already announced) Doom 4.
First Modern Warfare 3 maps available for CoD Elite users; Let Rob Riggle show them to you
“Liberation” and “Piazza,” the first maps from the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Content Season are now available for Xbox 360-owning CoD Elite subscribers. But rather than release a standard launch trailer full of quick cuts and complimentary language, Activision and Infinity Ward went one better by recruiting funnyman Rob Riggle, formerly of “The Daily Show,” to show us around the new maps.
But the best part is that Riggle is a real-life Lieutenant Colonel in the Marines. So he probably just barged into the Activision offices and threatened to beat up Bobby Kotick until he got the job. In my head, that’s exactly what happened.
Release details for PC, PS3, and non-Elite using Xbox 360 gamers for “Liberation” and “Piazza” will be available soon, hopefully with more Rob Riggle commentary.
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Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Namco delays Inversion like Inversion defies gravity
Namco Bandai has some bad news for everyone who wanted to flip their game room upside down in two weeks. The publisher has told Joystiq that Inversion will miss its scheduled February 7 release date:
“The launch of Inversion has been moved to early 2012, and more details will follow in an upcoming announcement. This additional development time will allow the team to polish several key aspects of the game ensuring Inversion is of the highest quality.”
Inversion’s new release window means that the PS3 and Xbox 360 game should be available by the end of March. And if it’s not, we’ll flip!
Scarygirl Review: Be Afraid, Be Wary & Afraid
The undead have become a very popular go-to target in media lately, and it seems like every game, movie, and kids’ birthday party has at least one. Luckily, creative minds sometimes venture outside the box, or at least open the box and take a peek out. That’s sort of the theme of the graphic novel that Tik Games has shaped into their latest platformer, Scarygirl. This game blends a pseudo-2D/3D platformer feel with a bit of a hack and slash vibe to stitch together a copy of Frankenstein’s monster that is not unlike a mix between the older Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle arcade games and LittleBigPlanet. (more…)