{"id":4984,"date":"2009-12-07T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"thq-announces-new-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4984-thq-announces-new-studio","title":{"rendered":"THQ announces new studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video game development company THQ has announced that it will be opening a new development and production studio in Montreal Canada in early 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which is responsible for releases such as the Red Faction, Warhammer 40 000: Dawn of War, Smackdown and Saints Row series, revealed that the studio will begin to deliver its first titles in &ldquo;fiscal 2013&rdquo; &ndash; a period between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013. What the studio will be working on has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The studio is expected to be the &ldquo;largest facility in its global studio system.&#8221; And will be headed by Dave Gatchel, previously of THQ&#8217;s Paradigm Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>This may come as a surprise to the industry, which has seen several studio and development closures as a result of economic pressure. In May 2009 THQ announced reduced net income and revenue for the previous year, losing out on some $35 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless the company appears to be moving forward on the back of this announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously struggling publisher to open new global facility<\/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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","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=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}