it's easy to jump on THQ but Nintendo could launch a demo channel to help these third parties get their games noticed.

THQ is still in business? This company brings out horrible wrestling games and pretty much nothing else.

True, although i would like to know where de Blob's Aussie dev. Blue Tongue will be working next, hopefully Nintendo.

I couldn't agree more with that. Games like No More Heroes and Zack & Wiki could have scored some more copies while crap like Big Beach Sports could be avoided.

i thought the wii got out of the closet already.
damn homophobic developers

Deadly Creatures, V_V I was considering it, but then I realized it was a game where you run around as a bug and never gave it a chance.

THQ has not made the greatest decisions as of late. That could be why a couple of months ago, most people placed it at 50-50 for going bankrupt.

Beyond that, it has made exactly two games for the Wii that were either not casual or not licensed (licensed includes WWE). One sold quite well while the other did not. And its offerings on the other consoles are also not that core-strong either. So the SVP is full of himself.

Luckily, for THQ and for Wii owners, it found a buyer for Big Huge Games. Because BHG was doing Wii games that THQ did not seem interested in publishing but the new Curt Schilling does. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052703243.html --- free registration may be required).


Big Huge Games Scores a Save: Troubled Md. Game Maker Picked Up by Curt Schilling's Firm

By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Local videogame studio Big Huge Games got a new lease on life yesterday after a company founded by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling announced that it has acquired the maker of computer-based games.

38 Studios out of Boston did not disclose the price it paid for Big Huge Games, but officials said the company will continue to operate in Timonium, Md.

Big Huge Games appeared to be facing bankruptcy after its former owner, game publisher THQ, in March threatened to close the studio if a buyer could not be found. THQ, a major videogame publisher most famous for hit tie-in titles themed around "SpongeBob SquarePants" and World Wrestling Entertainment, acquired Big Huge Games last year at the end of a series of acquisitions but then endured a devastating period of financial losses. THQ posted a $192 million loss in its third quarter last year.

Founded in 2000, Big Huge Games is most famous for Rise of Nations, a real-time strategy series of computer games where players control the assets of a young virtual nation and guide that budding civilization to world supremacy. Last year, the company shifted its corporate strategy and announced that it would develop titles for the popular Nintendo Wii system to address a growing market of fans who want to play on game consoles rather than on the PC.

Its Wii titles were not published by THQ, and until yesterday's announcement it appeared that they might never reach publication.

Development of the Wii projects will continue under the ownership, said Brett Close, 38 Studios president and chief executive.

"Big Huge has an amazing complementary talent pool that will fit nicely" as the company gears up to release a virtual world game next year, Close said. Such games, where players pay a monthly subscription to take on virtual roles as warriors or wizards, can be very lucrative, though this is a genre also known for expensive flops, such as a recent title themed around Conan the Barbarian.

Schilling has long been known by gamers as a fan of this genre and has appeared at videogame tradeshows and on podcasts dedicated to popular computer games such as World of Warcraft.

Schilling isn't the only famous name at 38 Studios, which was founded in 2006 and has not yet released any game titles. The company's management team also includes children's fantasy author R.A. Salvatore and comic book industry mogul Todd McFarlane.

"We're looking forward to being able to play in the sandbox with these visionaries," said Tim Train, Big Huge Games studio general manager.

Entertainment industry analyst Michael Pachter, of Wedbush Morgan Securities, said yesterday that he thinks Big Huge Games will be an asset to its new owner.

"One would think that the quality development team at Big Huge won't go to waste," Pachter wrote in an e-mail.

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Mike from Morgantown

im going to go buy THQ stock. I like the way they think.

But anyways the wii isn't for every developer

* lost two year to develop on wii *
* missed the bandwagon *
* produces one game and label it 'hardcore' *
* fails miserably *
* whine about sales *
* blame it on the audience *

I think I summed up this gen so far. IMHO, shitty devs and shitty publishers are to blame, even when nintendo blocks its own publication to let them some space. Such comments makes me sick

because you read gaming websites doesn't mean the vast majority of gamers do or that those who do actually take comments like these to heart.