Category - Industry News

The ESA Announces Parental Controls...

Washington, DC – March 11, 2013 – The U.S. video game industry today announced a new national public education campaign to educate American parents further about the tools and information available so they can manage the entertainment choices...

THQ to Sell Off Other IPs

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. — THQ Inc. (OTC: THQIQ) today announced that it will sell certain of its remaining intellectual properties (IP) via a Court-supervised sale process. Last month, THQ sold the majority of its studios and games in...

EA Los Angeles and EA Montreal Layoffs

Looks like we have more bad news for lots of people working in the video game industry today as, according to an article at Polygon, Electronic Arts has begun laying off an unspecified number of staff at EA Los Angeles and EA Montreal. The news...

IGN Layoffs, 1UP, UGO and GameSpy Closing

Looks like the new owner of IGN Entertainment, Ziff Davis, is shutting down long-time gaming websites, 1UP, UGO, and GameSpy. According to a news post at Polygon, the company has also laid off a number of staff members over at IGN. The Editor...

Wargaming Buys Gas Powered Games

After hearing news that Gas Powered Games Chris Taylor had put the company’s Project Awakened on hold, today we have found out that the game developer has been acquired by World of Tanks behemoth, Wargaming.net! More details below in the...

Wargaming to Move Into Console Gaming

Berlin, January 29, 2013 — Wargaming, the leading free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) developer and publisher behind the award-winning World of Tanks, today announced its acquisition of Chicago-based Day 1 Studios for $20 million...

THQ’s Last Day Photo

THQ’s official Facebook page put up a heartfelt goodbye post earlier which caught my eye. I just wanted to pass on our thanks to THQ for all the great gaming experiences over the years and we hope everyone who lost their positions finds...

THQ Dissolved and Studios Being Sold Off

Update #1: We now have the dollar amounts that the various studios and IPs are being sold for: SEGA is buying Relic for $26.7 million dollars Koch Media is purchasing Volition for $22.3 million and METRO for $5.8 million Ubisoft is buying THQ...