Lots of wartime atrocities happen in Homefront: Mass graves, the brutal immolation of enemies and allies and the slaughter of innocents.
War’s a staple setting a huge chunk of the hundreds of big-budget video games that come out every year. Last year’s best-selling games–Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops–both took place in the midst of military actions.
War may be hell, but it turns out that promotional stunts for videogame war aren’t exactly a cakewalk, either. When THQ released thousands of red balloons into the air to promote the company’s upcoming Homefront game, it was meant to suggest South Korean attempts to send messages of hope to North Korea, the country behind [...]
Now that’s he’s officially not doing The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro is focusing on his other project, the inSANE video game trilogy developed in partnership with THQ. It’s not going to be released until 2013 which gives them plenty of time to perfect the game, on which del Toro will serve as external creative director. There will [...]
War video games tend to use place in one of two ways. The first method puts players on unfamiliar territory and the battles to save everything you hold dear take place in a faraway land, where you’re taking the fight to a foreign enemy. The other way happens with recognizable places in peril, and delivers [...]
You’re so stolid. You weren’t like that before the beard.” – Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation
Hot on the heels of announcing their partnership with horror auteur Guillermo Del Toro, THQ debuted a new gamemaking facility in the heart of Montreal. The new studio will focus on hardcore games and will be built around Patrice Désilets. At Ubisoft, Désilets worked on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and was a [...]
Apps have been trickling into the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace over the last few weeks but I just noticed a handful of notable apps that were demoed in the weeks leading up to today’s announcement made available in the last 24 hours.
It’s Official: THQ and Guillermo del Torro will be making video games together.
Though folks scoffed when it was first announced, the stylus-centric interface of the Nintendo DS has only extended Nintendo’s domnance of the handheld video game market. Now, a similar gamble’s being made on Nintendo’s home console but it’s not Mario’s keepers who are rolling the dice. THQ–who, up until now, have been strictly focused on [...]
To coincide with the upcoming release of Red Faction Armageddon, videogame maker THQ and Syfy have teamed up for a screen adaptation of the franchise. Red Faction: Origins, a two-hour film set to air in March 2011, is set sometime between the events of Red Faction Guerilla and Red Faction. Written by Andrew Kreisberg (Warehouse [...]
