{"id":30772,"date":"2012-01-16T12:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T10:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30772"},"modified":"2012-01-16T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:29:08","slug":"rumour-control-thq-in-trouble-thq-denies-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30772-rumour-control-thq-in-trouble-thq-denies-everything","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: THQ in trouble, THQ denies everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

News broke late Sunday of problems over at THQ<\/a> headquarters when self-proclaimed “industry veteran” Kevin Dent announced on Twitter<\/a> that THQ had cancelled an MMO in development under licence from Games Workshop (which could only be Warhammer 40,000K: Dark Millennium Online) and is now offering itself off to “Asian firms to increase value”.<\/p>\n

Other games in THQ’s launch queue include the Saints’ Row brand, Darksiders 2, Metro: Last Light, South Park: The Game, and Guillermo del Toro’s inSANE project.<\/p>\n

THQ has denied the latest rumours.<\/p>\n

\u201cTHQ has not cancelled its 2014 line-up, and has not made any decisions regarding the planned MMO,\u201d the company’s Australian PR division announced in a press statement, explaining that they had “dramatically reduced our commitment to the kids\u2019 boxed games sector which leads to a significantly more focused release schedule moving forward”.<\/p>\n

Last year, THQ shut its family entertainment-oriented THQ Studio Australia and Blue Tongue subsidiaries as part of this strategy, ending development on a number of Nickelodean and Hasbro brands.<\/p>\n

“Additionally, we are thrilled with the great performance of Saints Row: The Third, which on a like for like period in North America has tripled in sell-through from Saints Row 2,” reads the press statement.<\/p>\n

“In addition, WWE 12\u2019s worldwide sell-through sales are up almost 40% year-over-year for the same sales period with fewer platforms. According to NPD, for the month of December and the 2011 year, THQ was the #5 publisher overall, #4 third party, with reported sell through growing over 18% in a market that was down almost 6%. And coming up next, we have two great titles for the first half of the year including UFC Undisputed 3 and Darksiders 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

So that’s that then. Until something happens, anyway, and with this much smoke, there must be some combustion.<\/p>\n

Source: Twitter<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> again, VG247<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a bad feeling about this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":30801,"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":[31,369],"class_list":["post-30772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-thq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30772","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30781,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30772\/revisions\/30781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}