When the Darksiders IP comes up for auction on April 1st, Crytek will be bidding for it according to a tweet made by Crytek USA head-honcho David Adams.
I’ve been waiting all month for this freebie! It’s not often I’m legit excited about anything PlayStation Plus throws at us these days, but I am excited to get Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention for the PS Vita for free this week! The Strategy RPG series has made waves on the PS2 and PS3 for years and the Vita version of the PS3 classic is a game that every SRPG [...]
Deep Silver, the new custodians of the Saints Row franchise, have confirmed that not only will Saints Row 4 be out on August 20th (23rd in Europe), but that the fourth game will be a 360, PS3 and PC release only. Again, the Wii U has been left out in the cold to play with itself, as no mention of the game for Nintendo‘s struggling console was made. Like previous [...]
After THQ sold off all their properties including Company of Heroes developer Relic the fate of Company of Heroes 2 was left hanging. Well new owner Sega and Relic have officially announced that the new release date of the WWII strategy game will be June 25th, instead of last years prediction for March 12th. There’s also going to be a multiplayer Closed Beta at some point in the near future.
Looks like it’ll be a few more months of waiting to get Metro: Last Light into store shelves, now from Deep Silver instead of THQ since they died and all. The news was confirmed over on the Metro Facebook page saying the extra few months “will go towards a final layer of polish, in order to provide fans of mature and atmospheric first-person shooters with the best possible single-player experience [...]
It’ll soon be time for the industry vultures to have a second go at stripping the meat off the bones of THQ, as the administrators for the company have confirmed that the former publisher will attempt to sell off all of its remaining IP at a court-supervised auction on April 1st. The IP sale has been sliced up into the six tasty morsels; Red Faction, Homeworld, MX, Darksiders, other owned [...]
According to ESPN, Take-Two, the new custodians of the WWE license, will release their first entry since they took over the franchise from failed publisher THQ this Autumn under the guise WWE2K14. If the numbering convention used in the title seems familiar that’s because it is; 2K Games has utlised the ’2K’ branding throughout their sports titles such as the NBA2K and NHL2K offerings and as such going forward, the franchise will [...]
A brand new sale will be kicking off today on the EU Playstation Store according to the EU Playstation Blog. It seems like it’ll be quite the little cracker too with the likes of Batman: Arkham City to be had €11.99/£9.69, Darksiders 2 for €9.99/£9.99 and finally, the entirety of The Sly HD Trilogy for a frankly bargainous €9.99/£7.99. Playstation Plus members will also be happy to know that they’ll be eligible [...]
After the recent auctioning off of THQ, Crytek has confirmed that they hired a good chunk of the Vigil team, the company behind Darksiders. Vigil wasn’t bought in the auction and all employees were laid off the day after the auction. While Crytek has offered some of the previous employees new jobs, they also stated that they weren’t interested in buying their main IP. As of right now the fate [...]
While the majority of THQ‘s properties were able to find a new home, the really quite decent Darksiders was not among them; with the IP threatening to fall into oblivion as a result. A potential lifeline for the franchise has come from an unexpected, but completely brilliant source as Platinum Games head honcho, Atushi Inaba, said via Twitter that he would be interested in buying the IP after nobody placed a bid [...]
