THQ closes two studios in Australia before and a studio in the American Phoenix. This will 200 jobs be lost. The publisher is also currently no games in the MX vs. ATV-series. THQ holds five studios.
According to Brian Farrell, ceo of publisher THQ, is going to his company’s attention is more focus on “are intellectual property of high quality’. That must be a broad audience and to be made suitable for different platforms. This requires that the own capacity of the publisher to ‘correct proportions’ can be reduced. That is to say that the publisher three studios close. The test department of the studio in Phoenix remains open.
After the reorganisation holds THQ five studios. Volition Inc. working on Saints Row: The Third, and together with film director Guillermo del Toro on inSane. Relic Entertainment makes Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and the Vigil Games Darksiders II and mmog Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online. THQ San Diego makes WWE All Stars and THQ Montreal is working on an unannounced game, for which it secured the services of Patrice Désilets, who at Ubisoft stood at the cradle of the Assassin’s Creed series.
THQ has been quite some time in heavy weather. In 2008 was the publisher for five studios close to absorb losses. It lost 250 employees their jobs. In 2009, it was again touch. After a loss-making quarter was the publisher 600 men on the street, at that time a quarter of the workforce. In may was THQ again a large loss disclosure. That led in June to the closure of two studios. Digital Warrington and Kaos Studios had to close the doors. Kaos Studios was closed right after the game Homefront came out, that bad reviews scored. In July, Farrell, in addition, apart from the fact that his company no longer sees in the Red Faction series. The announcement came shortly after the release of Red Faction: Armageddon, which is less well sold than THQ had hoped.
