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Goodbye THQ: Deep Silver’s Big Gamble and What’s Next for South Park

While we’ve known it was coming for quite a while, we’re sad to say that THQ is dead. The publisher’s studios and IPs have been picked up by other companies, and the company is set to dissolve. Daily Reaction‘s Seb and Dan discuss the collapse, the sale and the future of THQ’s IPs.
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showtimefolks4108d ago

sad thing is no one has bought Darksiders IP, come on someone has to step up and buy it

sony i am looking at u so god of war team can make future darksiders games

joab7774107d ago

Yeah and metro last light best not get screwed up because it is going to be awesome. And i am pretty sure company of heroes and south park will do fairly well too. I love that south park is an rpg and everyone who has played CoH has said that it is shaping up really well. Heres to hoping. But metro last light would be a terrible loss. Though everything looks on track as of now. I will bet its better tham dead space 3 or crysis 3.

wheresmymonkey4107d ago

Apparently Platinum are interested in buying Darksiders and Volition of the price is right.

animegamingnerd4107d ago (Edited 4107d ago )

you're a gay fish

TrendyGamers4108d ago

It'll be very interesting to see how their franchises due under new publishers.

animegamingnerd4107d ago

RIP THQ why did you had to died and EA, actisvion, and crapcom are still around

360ICE4107d ago

Because they suck at adapting

Lou Ferrigno4108d ago

i absolutely loved Deep silvers Dead Island IP ..so i am kinda stoked to see how it goes with the aquisistion now.. tbh didn't know they had that kind of money to invest in another company,good for them =)

doctorstrange4108d ago

I think they don't, but their parent company (Koch Media) does. Looks like they want to enter the big leagues

Lou Ferrigno4108d ago

and Rightfully so they should.. The more the marrier i say. :)

ZeekQuattro4108d ago

I liked Dead Island to but its scary that they worked on that game for over 4 years and it came out so buggy. Fun but very buggy.

Lou Ferrigno4107d ago

allthough i agreed with you because the ps3 version was Buggy (especially for how long it was in development) but it wasn't as buggy as most people made it out to be..

I beat the ps3 version and put over 150 hours into that game and barely encountered any bugs durring my time w/it.. Maybe everyone was goinng on about the PC version?.. they never made a game with that magnitude before so i'm sure (or at least hoping) that Riptide will be more solid and bugged out.. =)

ZeekQuattro4108d ago

Saint's Row is all that I'm worried about. Other than that my favorite THQ games were way back on the N64. Those were some fine wrestling games. It does suck to see another company fall but oh well.

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anast26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.

cammers199526d ago

They said awhile ago that Ubisoft holds contract rights to the main flagship South Park games. So like stick, fractured and phone destroyer.

Snow Day was handled by THQ and Question and is a random spinoff. Hopefully Ubisoft is cooking something.

anast26d ago

That's one reason to be hopeful, but Ubi is trending down too.

chicken_in_the_corn25d ago

Loved the RPGs but never played the others. Have to track them down. Still not sure about Snow Day though.

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The 7 Best South Park Games

The South Park series has somehow managed to stay relevant for over 25 years, but which are the best games based on the TV show?

cammers1995133d ago (Edited 133d ago )

The only two worth playing are Stick of truth and fractured but whole. The rest were garbage except snow day which I can't say anything about yet. But with that said, unlike stick and fractured which debuted as AAA full priced titles by ubisoft, snow day is a new developer and publisher and has a budget price at only $30 soooo

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Bethesda & Xbox To Meet Up With Laid-Off Deep Silver Volition Employees

According to a LinkedIn post, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studio representatives will meet up with Deep Silver Volition employees.

shinoff2183220d ago (Edited 220d ago )

That's pretty cool, but didn't they just lay of 10k as a whole. Reportedly some from the gaming division even.

Confused in pa.

Sonyslave3220d ago

Yes they did , it the circle of life in the tech bizz.

blackblades220d ago

Circle of life of meh games

mkis007220d ago (Edited 220d ago )

This is called good PR. And an opportunity to hire veterans over scrubs.

phoenixwing219d ago

Not to call them scrubs but yeah some veteran devs are more welcome than others with less experience

Flakegriffin219d ago (Edited 219d ago )

You can hire veterans all day long but it’s the talent Microsoft lacks.

Zeref220d ago (Edited 220d ago )

It was mostly outside of gaming. Most of the game studios weren't affected besides 343i and Coalition from what I recall

Charlieboy333219d ago (Edited 219d ago )

But of course. Just look at the latest Saint's Row....that is exactly the level of quality and writing that Xbox strives for these days.

Aloymetal219d ago

Nope, like Redfall, Craig infinite

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ravens52219d ago

There u go. This is way more acceptable than buying up studios. Buy individual talent until you strengthen your already owned studios. 👏🏽

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