Developer Vigil dissolved alongside THQ, but the core team will live on as Crytek USA Corp.
Vigil and Darksiders can't entice a new publisher to come in and save them.
Discover some of the best inside jokes and secret content of the year in games like Far Cry 3, Halo 4, and Black Ops II.
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Death will face an entire army forged within an evil tool in the latest expansion for Darksiders II.
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Darksiders II offers up melodrama, beautiful environments, and subtle touches that make it worth your gaming time and dollar.
THQ's four internal studios have begun work on new games since company president Jason Rubin took over his position.
THQ has announced that it’s lost less than expected in the first quarter of its fiscal year — which actually good news for the video game publisher that recently escaped NASDAQ delisting.
THQ reported net sales of $38.6 million for …
In its commitment to higher quality games, THQ has hired a former Electronic Arts exec to oversee triple-A production.
For better or worse, it seems like big-budget live-action trailers for video games are here to stay. It's just as well that some publishers are doing them right, as seen in these 10 impressive examples.
Brian Farrell, chief executive of embattled video game publisher THQ, has endured a lot of criticism in the past year as investors have pummeled the company’s stock price and watched as Farrell has had to make cutback after cutback in …
Jason Rubin, the co-founder of famous game developer Naughty Dog, has been named the president of struggling video game publisher THQ.
Rubin will report to Brian Farrell, who remains chairman and chief executive. But Danny Bilson, who has headed THQ’s …
THQ hopes to maintain its NASDAQ listing by reducing the number of outstanding shares in a reverse stock split. The company will propose this maneuver to its shareholders at a meeting on June 29.
Jazz up your Facebook profile with Timeline covers of upcoming video games like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, God of War: Ascension, and Borderlands 2.
THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn't necessarily the case.
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …
Even before the cliffhanger ending of the original, we all knew a Darksiders II was coming. But developer Vigil Games pulled a fast one and set the upcoming sequel to run parallel to the events of the first game, replacing …
The above is the ending to 2010′s Darksiders, which featured War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the main protagonist. In the cutscene, War’s three siblings (pictured below) are seen coming to his aid, leading gamers to …
The original Darksiders was a mostly successful blend of Devil May Cry action, Ocarina of Time puzzles, and Joe Madureira comic art. It told the story of War, one of the Four Horsemen, who had been wrongly accused of starting …
