Despite disappointing financial lwa le results THQ the expensive development of mmog Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online continue to pay. The publisher is looking for, however, a partner in the costs.
In mid-January claimed self-confessed ‘game-industry veteran’ Kevin Dent that publisher THQ is in financial distress and therefore wants to stop the production of mmog Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online. From the presentation of the latest quarterly results from THQ, indeed, that THQ, the heavy has. The publisher should be 240 man fire. The presentation also shows, however, that the mmog still in production and is scheduled for fiscal year 2014. In a telephone comments gave director Brian Farrell, however, that he is looking for a partner who wants to share in the cost of the project. For that reason wants to THQ not to capture on a too tight schedule for the mmog. The game is in the books for 2014 or later.’
For the same fiscal year has THQ even more hot topics. So developer Volition, together with film director Guillermo del Toro, to survival-horrorgame Insane. Furthermore, shooter Homefront 2 on the role, just as a still unannounced shooter from Left 4 Dead developer Turtle Rock and the game that Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets for THQ. In addition, the publisher has four unannounced hardcoregames in preparation in the same tax year would have to come. For fiscal year 2013, THQ still two unannounced hardcoregames in production. In the first months of 2013 will also Metro: Last Light on the market, which is to say that the game half a year delayed. THQ wants to be around the shooter a comprehensive marketing campaign set up, something there in the first version of the shooter, which was released in 2010, was missing.
Finally, financial officer Paul Pucino in the telephone notes known that the production of THQ’s drawing tablet uDraw discontinued will be. The publisher still has 1.4 million copies in stock that is still trying to sell. There are about a million copies of the tablet sold. The remainder stock bore firmly to the disappointing quarterly results, set Pucino. The publisher had in a prognosis, take into account the income from the sale of the remaining copies. In addition, the copies which the publisher is able to sell, with discount out the door and gone, leaving the group to 100 million dollars in revenue misliep that it had budgeted.
First trailer of the mmog Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online