EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: thq
We’ve heard a lot about the campaign and singleplayer features of THQ’s UFC Undisputed 3 these past few weeks and months, but we’ve heard next-to nothing about the mixed martial arts fighting game’s online features.
That’s all changed today as the publisher has flooded fans with details on UFC Undisputed 3’s content creation and community sharing functionality, improved online matchmaking capabilities, the return of Fight Camps, and more exciting features.
As highly anticipated games from companies of all descriptions seem to have been delayed by months (and even into 2013), Darksiders fans breathed a collective sigh of relief recently when THQ dated Darksiders II for the month of June. No exact release date yet, but it’s a start!
To keep the anticipation high, G4 recently went live with a video interview with Vigil Games general manager David Adams, once again talking about the differences between protagonists War and Death…
… but what’s special about this video is that it contains brand new gameplay footage from Darksiders II - catch it now:
UFC Undisputed 3 may not even be out yet, but THQ is making sure that prospective mixed martial arts gamers will be well taken care of once the game launches this month by detailing a massive collection of free and paid post-release downloadable content.
A Season Pass programme for UFC Undisputed 3 has also been announced, netting purchasers selected content at a reduced price.
If you’re looking forward to the release of Darksiders II as much as we are, then this news is going to be of great interest to you!
THQ and the Random House Publishing Group have announced that an original novel set in the rich Darksiders universe is due for release in May this year, and in time for the launch of Darksiders II!
Following the announcement that Volition’s Saints Row: The Third had shipped (Note: Not sold) an impressive 3.8 million units since its release in November, with an additional five to six million expected over the title’s lifetime, THQ revealed that the publisher intends to exit the once-lucrative kid’s games market in order to become “a more streamlined organization focused only on our strongest franchises.”
Focus, too, will be given to THQ’s digital distribution efforts as a result of the success of Saints Row: The Third’s downloadable content offerings.
Since these announcements were made, however, the situation has turned very dire for THQ.
Saints Row: The Third is an excellent open-world action adventure game in its own right allowing you the freedom to do just about any zany thing you can imagine, including trawling the streets in a tank, calling down airstrikes onto your enemies and zooming along in cyberspace.
What makes the game even more special is the chance to heavily customise yourself, not only right from the beginning, but as your progress, too, allowing you to create a completely unique, ‘special’ character heretofore unseen by human eyes.
“He was there from the beginning. He shaped our deepest beliefs. Man’s perception of Death has changed throughout the ages, yet one fact will always remain:
His will be the last face you will ever see.”
According to the latest chilling trailer for Darksiders II, Death has accompanied humanity since the beginning of time and has been present to do his disturbing ‘work’ at key moments in our history, with or without our knowledge.
If he was wielding giant claw weapons, however, I’m sure we would have noticed him bounding about the battlefields of World War II.
The highly anticipated demo for THQ and Yukes’ technical mixed martial arts fighting game has appeared on Xbox LIVE and is available to download right this instant!
Well… for Xbox LIVE Gold members at least.
What’s included in the 1.63 GB demo for UFC Undisputed 3? Watch the stirring trailer for the taster below:
By now, it’s no secret that there are members of El33tonline who would like nothing better than to magically find a copy of Darksiders II sitting on their desk right this instant, but unfortunately we’re going to have to wait a few months more to go hands-on with Vigil’s next action adventure masterwork.
Until then, we’ll have to content ourselves with smatterings of screenshots and trailers for the game, and by watching a developer diary discussing the series’ all-new protagonist, Death.
Leading up to the release of UFC Undisputed 3 in mid-February this year, THQ has unleashed a batch of information and videos to pump up the excitement surrounding the publisher’s next crushing mixed martial arts fighter.
Let’s begin with the facts here, straight from an official THQ press release:
“THQ has not cancelled its 2014 line-up, and has not made any decisions regarding the planned MMO.”
Why would THQ feel the need to send out such a statement? What is “the planned MMO?”
The mischievous Professor Genki is at it again, this time extending his fun-filled (or ‘fun-filled’) game show out into the streets of Steelport with larger-than-life tests of character, determination and physical ‘integrity’ - there are some hungry sharks lurking about.
South Park: The Game from Obsidian Entertainment was announced in December last year to the surprise of just about everyone, and will apparently be a fully fledged RPG with all of the trimmings you would expect from the genre.
Being published by THQ, South Park: The Game is due for release this year on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and the first ever screenshots and artwork were recently released for everyone to enjoy.
So… enjoy:
In case you needed your in-game Saints Row: The Third persona to look any more ridiculous (or awesome, as the case may be), a brand new set of downloadable content recently became available for Volition’s open-world action game, bringing with it new clothing options.
And by ‘clothing’ we actually mean ‘armour.’ And by ‘armour’ we also mean ‘space suit.’ And by ‘space suit’ we actually mean ‘poor excuse for a space suit.’
WWE 12 has no shortage of wrestlers to choose from, with more than 70 WWE Superstars, Divas and Legends to pit against one another in the ring. Today THQ announced that the second DLC pack for WWE ‘12 is now available on Xbox LIVE and PSN, adding a further six characters to the mix.
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