{"id":10703,"date":"2011-03-16T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"homefront-review-scores-cause-thq-stock-to-dip-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10703-homefront-review-scores-cause-thq-stock-to-dip-21","title":{"rendered":"Homefront review scores cause THQ stock to dip 21%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 24 hours, Publisher THQ&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?client=ob&amp;q=NASDAQ:THQI\" target=\"_blank\">share price<\/a> has dropped 21 percent down to $4.69. The dramatic decline has broadly been attributed to the mixed reviews which its latest shooter, Homefront has been receiving leading up to the game&#8217;s launch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game is currently sitting on a not completely disastrous 72\/100 Metacritic score, but apparently good just is not good enough to keep a games company in the green these days. EDGE Magazine gave it the most scathing review, saying that &#8220;this isn&#8217;t an alternative to COD, but a game in thrall to it.&#8221; Joystiq also gave it 50\/100, and Eurogamer reckons its worth 60\/100.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No matter how you feel about Homefront, now is probably a great time to buy THQ shares (disclaimer: MyGaming staff are in no shape or form qualified to be giving financial advice).<\/p>\n<p>Homefront is due out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11361-Official-HomeFront-Discussion-Thread?p=382839#post382839\" target=\"_blank\">Join our official Homefront discussion<\/a> thread in the forums<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says review scores don&#039;t matter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}