• THQ Nordic's net sales up 1,403%, 55 titles in development
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THQ Nordic's net sales up 1,403% to $139.5m | GamesIndustry.biz https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/134149/cd43ed52-9c5d-4e46-8c8c-2c702b367222/image.png The latest financial results for THQ Nordic show a dramatic increase in net sales, with earnings rising across the business. For the three months ended September 30th, the publisher reported net sales of $139.5 million - a staggering year-on-year increase of 1,403% over the $9.3 million reported for the same period in 2017. The reason for this growth is THQ's acquisition of Koch Media and Deep Silver earlier this year, effectively doubling the publisher's potential revenues. Titles by this segment saw sales of $27.6 million, with the release of Dakar 18 and Pathfinder Kingmaker cited as key performers - even though the latter launched less than a week before the end of the quarter. Even without Deep Silver, THQ Nordic's own titles would have driven net sales up 47% year-on-year to $13.6 million. The launch of Titan Quest and Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered (both re-releases of hits from the previous incarnation of THQ) were highlighted as particular successes, as was This Is The Police 2. In his statement, founder and CEO Lars Wingefors dubbed the period "another strong quarter with continued momentum". He also said the publisher has 55 games in development, of which 35 are unannounced, and hinted at more acquisitions to come. THQ rising like a fucking phoenix
Give us more Titan Quest pls
Still waiting on all those Nickelodeon games they said they'd be releasing sooner or later...
What they've done so far is great. They're buying beloved IPs with an actual iinention to use them in reasonable ways while focusing on what's realistically attainable for them, they aren't going for the usual approach a lot of publishers do now where all that matters is making the most money no matter what. It feels like there's actually hope for the IPs they have bought to get the care they should have and that they actually want to treat them properly.
Usually I'm against one company buying loads studios and IPs, but it seems more like they're actually resurrecting studios and IPs as opposed to sucking up studios and IPs that are already thriving, which I can really get behind.
Imagine these were once the guys who published Ride to Hell: Retribution
I think you're confusing these guys with Deep Silver, though admittedly THQ Nordic bought them earlier this year.
THQ can buy them all, they at least do good stuff with them. They are probably one of the last big publishers that didn't go to complete shit.
They aren't THQ though, they're a different publisher. They've only been operating like this since 2016, really.
If they can do good by Deep Rock Galactic, I'm fine with it.
New Red Faction pls
jesus i completely forgot about thq. they had such an iconic logo branding, not sure why they changed it.
They fucking died, THQ died and Nordic bought the name and a bunch of titles everyone loved and have been kicking ass with that for a while now.
Simply re-release everything on Steam/GOG and I'll be a happy man.
They bought timesplitters this year, hope they are working on at least a remastered trilogy.
They're apparently working on something Timesplitters related, so they have my attention for sure.
5aints row when?
Homefront Revolution had a playable TimeSplitters 2 easter egg of the first level that had full mouse and keyboard controls. I'll already be happy if we could get actual PC ports of at least the original trilogy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxEOKtKcg_w
Unfortunately not the original development team (which is now mostly at Crate Entertainment, to my knowledge). That said, I haven't played Ragnarök, so I don't actually know how THQ Nordic is doing in that regard.
I just played Titan Quest (the entirety) for the first time few months ago and I do notice a considerable decline in writing when I step into Ragnarok. The rest of the DLC is ok I guess but I would expect nothing but improvement after such a gap in years. Nonetheless it is fine seeing another publisher booming, as long they don't pull any questionable practices.
I played the expansion and liked it. The story is kinda predictable, but the gameplay, new areas, the mix of norse and celtic mythology, etc. are pretty good. They improved the expansion with several updates after release. I tried fully exploring every area in normal difficulty and it took me a good chunk of hours (20? hrs maybe). Its not perfect, but its a good expansion of you want more TQ content. Also I'm going to be honest here, I enjoyed titan quest + ragnarok more than grim dawn + ashes of malmouth.
Like @Noob© said, the writing in Ragnarök is a bit meh. But otherwise I really enjoy the addition of the new class and the new environment. A proper meaty expansion imo.
I agree, reboot Saints and make it a gang style game. No one make gang style games anymore and they can really be creative and make something compelling
Just a reminder, this is not the THQ that died a few years ago. That is 100% dead. This is just Nordic Games, who bought the THQ name after it died then added it to their own for brand recognition. Now they've exploded in size, and are buying up their competitors. Bring back Red Faction and make some good oens again. Reboot or rmake Saint's row and focus on the gangs again, and just have all the weird and campy stuff off to the side, but also have it treated 100% seriously like it was in 2.
For a start, can we just get the Timesplitters series on PC, it doesn't even need to be like some HD Remake on Unreal Engine 4 or anything, just the game's with support for Widescreen resolution, higher resolution hud elements and high framerate support, I don't give a fucking about the graphics changing, as far as I'm concerned they've aged fairly well. I just want to play it with a Mouse and Keyboard because fuck some of the challenges that require actually aiming.
I think a lot of people want a lot of things from the new THQ right now, I'm actually quite confident they'll deliver as much as is possible. It seems they're pretty comitted and positioning themselves to make some damn good stuff. I imagine working with Timesplitters is a bit of a clusterfuck considering the past 10 years, and we have no idea what legal and corporate bullshit is going on in the background for a bunch of these games. It seems likely that many people at the company are ready to dump all sorts of legacy releases on GoG and Steam, but I'm more than willing to bet that somebody has (rightly) projected that as a terrible business idea.
Or a new Freespace
I'm mainly rooting for a sequel to Destroy All Humans. I absolutely loved that game as a kid and it needs justice after the mess that was Path of the Furon.
Guerilla is getting a remaster? Yessssssss
It's been out for a couple months already.
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