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...Experienced publishers such as THQ and Midway, creator of the Mortal Kombat series and the fourth-biggest publisher by sales in 2000, collapsed as sales declined....
...THQ has been overly dependent on disc-based games and has been suffering of late....
...THQ received a bloody nose recently with the timing of the release of its mixed martial arts UFC Undisputed 2010 game....
...However, Brian Farrell, THQ’s chief executive, was bullish when I met him at E3....
...“We make it possible for people like Electronic Arts and THQ to distribute their games.”...
...The video game publisher THQ, which has also undergone major restructuring to try to return to profitability, announced a further reorganisation, with three new business units....
...THQ also disappointed with its results and said it was cutting almost a quarter of its workforce....
...As we predicted last week, THQ’s UFC 2009 Undisputed was the top game, selling just over 1m units, with Wii Fit still performing well in second with 353,000 units and EA’s new Sports Active (pictured), which...
...While rivals Electronic Arts and THQ both reported quarterly losses this week, the leading video game publisher reported profits and revenues well above expectations.Meanwhile, Microsoft has acquired video...
...THQ shares fell 15 per cent after-hours to $3.50, down from a 52-week high of $23.40 last April....
...The same lack of hits applies to THQ and Midway. THQ announced softness in sales last month and said it was cancelling titles and shedding 17 per cent of its workforce....
...Today, THQ announced a major restructuring, with cancelled titles, five studio closures and 250 job losses – about 17 per cent of its workforce....
...THQ has just launched its All Star Cheer Squad, teaching cheerleading and dance moves using the balance board. Another publisher has announced plans for a pole dancing game....
...THQ has hit a rough patch in the past few months....
...In its fourth-quarter earnings report on Thursday, Activision followed in the footsteps of Electronic Arts and THQ in announcing it would begin recognising a substantial amount of net revenues and cost of...
...Other international companies in the region include THQ, which bought Warrington-based Juice Games in 2006, and Activision, which bought Bizarre Creations, a Liverpool developer, last month....
...THQ’s shares slipped 2 per cent in after-hours trading....
...Brent Thill, Citigroup analyst, said in a note: “Smaller publishers like THQ and Take-Two could benefit as global media companies are likely to kickstart their video game acquisition strategies post Vivendi...
...On 2K’s calculations, only THQ appears agnostic to the outcome, with similar sales per console across all platforms....
...The Santa Monica video games publisher had better financial news than all the other major US players – Electronic Arts, THQ, Take-Two and Midway – who also made announcements over the past two days....
...In spite of being the longest-serving chief executive among the big five US publishers – EA, Activision, THQ, Take-Two and Midway Games – he cuts a youthful figure, at the age of 44, and has a puckish sense...
...In Australia, the state government of Victoria is setting up incentives, such as providing A$375,000 (£156,000) over two years to help fund local games development, attracting Atari of France and THQ of...
...Shares of Electronic Arts, Activision and THQ were also higher on the back of strong September sales of video games in the US, according to the NPD research company....
...THQ’s biggest release of the quarter will be Cars, a game version of the new Pixar animated movie due to be released in US cinemas on June 9....
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