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News by Ellie Gibson

24 January, 2008

As reported by the Richard Quest types over at GamesIndustry.biz, THQ's latest financial report has revealed plans to cancel two games and discontinue two franchises.

Turns out the rumours were true - there won't be a PS3 version of Frontlines: Fuel of War after all. THQ has also binned the PS2 version of Destroy All Humans!: Big Willy Unleashed, so it looks like the game will only get a Wii release now.

And it's goodbye to Juiced and Stuntman. THQ hadn't announced any further instalments in either series but now it's confirmed there won't be any in the future.

THQ is also closing down Californian studio Concrete Games. The company said a "substantial number" of staff members will be offered jobs at other studios.

Those report figures in brief: THQ reckons net sales for the quarter ending March 31st will stand at USD 200 million, and for the whole year it'll be USD 1.04 billion. Stuntman: Ignition, Ratatouille and Conan didn't sell as well as the company predicted, but WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 and MX vs. ATV Untamed exceeded expectations. In financial terms, obviously.

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seasidebaz
24/01/08 @ 09:06
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juiced went downhill when thq picked it up anyway
Triggerhappytel
24/01/08 @ 09:11
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It's the developers I feel sorry for. If you're job is not secure with a huge publisher like THQ, who is it secure with?!

I'm playing Stuntman: Ignition at the moment and I'm not particularly keen. The whole trial and error element doesn't really do it for me. I didn't like the demo for Juiced: HIN either, although I don't necessarily think both franchises were dead in the water.
pjmaybe
24/01/08 @ 09:21
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Juiced was no great loss. Need for Speed dumbed down for the bling generation and always crappy gameplay.

Stuntman's a bit of a loss though, damned shame because Stuntman Ignition is a bit of a "lost classic" on the 360 and definitely had at least another game in the IP before it got tedious.

Bet THQ won't be sacking any of their tedious kid-game devs any time soon though...
sickpuppysoftware
24/01/08 @ 09:27
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Upset about stuntman couldn't care less about juiced. Feel sorry for any devs that lost their jobs :(
barnard666
24/01/08 @ 09:31
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Stuntman probably needed to look a lot prettier to sell.
SeanLB
24/01/08 @ 09:37
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Just a shame that Juiced is what became of Lamborghini. Oh well.
chrisjm
24/01/08 @ 09:41
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is stuntman a series, they only resurected it from the dead recently.
DrDamn
24/01/08 @ 09:52
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The stuntman engine is actually nicely capable. Art direction it could do with some work, but watch the replay on completion of a level and it shows some class. Its a pitty as Stuntman could have gone somewhere by including on foot non-vehicle sections.
Adam_T
24/01/08 @ 10:06
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Dawn of War 2.

You know it makes sense.

And bring back the cheesy 'THQ' american voiceover on your logo movie!
SBfistfun
24/01/08 @ 10:13
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Juiced was balls from the off
JohnnyWashnGo
24/01/08 @ 10:17
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The developers I feel sorry for, the publisher can go to hell.

I haven't really kept track of the quality of their titles, but I remember since the SNES days, actively avoiding anything that had THQ on the box. What did I miss out on?
Triggerhappytel
24/01/08 @ 10:27
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Johnny - Red Faction. Not much else.
spitfire1945
24/01/08 @ 10:29
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I'm not crying for the losses we had.
Juiced was another of those games to milk the Fast and Furious trend that was affecting the youngers.
Stuntman (the one made by Reflection on PS2) was good but to rigid with that trial anda error system.
Destroy all Humans was fresh and funny the first time, then it became tiresome as any other 3d person shooter.

Concrete Games never did a title that I remember of, so sorry for the people, but that's it!
skillian
24/01/08 @ 10:57
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Johnny - Red Faction. Not much else.

And STALKER, and Company of Heroes. Two of my favourite games of the last couple of years.
UncleLou
24/01/08 @ 11:09
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And Supreme Commander. And Titan Quest. And Dawn of War.

THQ is the best publisher for PC games at the moment. Great new IPs, great support.
Triggerhappytel
24/01/08 @ 11:19
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Yeah, I meant those games as well. I assumed it was so obvious there was no need to say :p
miiiguel
24/01/08 @ 11:33
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PS3 weirdo architecture colateral damage...
Pasco
24/01/08 @ 12:31
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"Juiced was no great loss. Need for Speed dumbed down for the bling generation"

Hahahaha, how is it even possible to dumb down "Need for Speed: Underground" for the bling generation?
Kropotkin
24/01/08 @ 13:15
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Juiced was made by Juiced Games. The first one was average and its sequel was even worse. No one will miss it but the developers are now no more which is a bit sad seeing as they were fellow countrymen. What bothers me though is everyone else knew that the Juiced franchise, all be is short lived, was a poor imitation of the NFS series which is pretty dire anyway, how comes they themselves didn't see that? Very odd...
BBIAJ
24/01/08 @ 13:28
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Actually, it's Juice Games, not Juiced Games.

And as far as I'm aware, only Concrete Games have closed, not Juice Games, nor Paradigm Entertainment.

I think you might be reading into this a little too much, or maybe you just didn't read the article thoroughly enough?
Tweakmonkey
24/01/08 @ 14:46
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Wait - they're canceling the PS2 game and not the Wii? Don't they know how badly 3rd party sales are?
jaxon58
24/01/08 @ 15:06
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"Juiced was made by Juiced Games. The first one was average and its sequel was even worse. No one will miss it but the developers are now no more which is a bit sad seeing as they were fellow countrymen."

That's not true, Juice Games are ticking along just fine.
L42yB
25/01/08 @ 11:13
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Meh! The only game in that list that I care about is "Destroy All Humans". I always liked that game, great sense of humor :)

But that wasn't coming to 360 anywayz, and I sold my Wii so no real loss there...

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