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Darksiders, Red Faction: Guerrilla delayed News

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News by Ellie Gibson

6 November, 2008

THQ has decided to delay the release of Darksiders: Wrath of War and Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Both games were originally due out by April 2009, but now they won't be released until the next fiscal year. In the old money, that means some time before the end of March 2010.

The news came in THQ's latest financial report, which also revealed second-quarter losses of USD 115.3 million. Whoops.

As a result, the publisher plans to close five studios, make around 250 staff redundant and throw various works-in-progress in the bin.

THQ is also planning to expand into Asia, however. Free-to-play MMO Dragonia will launch there in 2009, while WWE Online will follow in 2010. The publisher is also opening a new office in Shanghai.

In other THQ-related news, 2 million copies of Saints Row 2 have now been shipped worldwide. Gosh.

You can find out more about the delayed titles on the Darksiders and Red Faction: Guerrilla gamepages.

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asphaltcowboy
06/11/08 @ 09:43
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Quite looking forward to Darksiders... hope it makes it out!
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06/11/08 @ 09:48
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Delay is OK, as the marketplace is overcrowded now anyway.
And Red Faction looks like it will be essential to my collection.
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06/11/08 @ 10:33
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"the publisher plans to close five studios, make around 250 staff redundant"
Ouch, best of luck to those affected!
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06/11/08 @ 10:52
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I wonder if this has anything to do with recent comments about getting Red Faction running satisfactorily on PS3. Anyhoo, I have a 360 too so they could always put it out on that in the meantime ;-)
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I work at one of the studios where there have been redundancies. Just avoided the chop myself, but good luck to those who didn't. Been an awful week :(
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Y'know I don't think I've ever brought a THQ game :/. Unless you count the Euro version of Conker's Bad Fur day on the n64...

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