 "RIP Red Faction?")
Yesterday THQ announced their financial results for this fiscal year and the results were rather disappointing. THQ CEO and president Brian Farrell attributes a large chunk of their failure to Volition’s Red Faction Armageddon that failed to make a dent at sales even though it was promoted rather heavily via a graphic novel and a short animated movie. He went on to say that even Red Faction Guerilla didn’t sell too well forcing THQ to abandon this franchise for now, giving developer Volition time to work on the Saints Row series as well as their upcoming horror game with director Guillermo Del Toro.
RIP
Frankly speaking I’m a bit surprised with this news as both games got pretty decent reviews across the board. Sure Red Faction Armageddon was a step down for the franchise deviating from the awesome, destructive open world formula laid down by Guerilla but I never thought the games sold this poorly. Oh well, just goes to show that sometimes even the good stuff doesn’t sell.
Thanks to Gameinformer for the heads up.
Nash, as he prefers being called, woke up to the wonders of gaming rather late but don't bring that up around him. It's a touchy subject. A self confessed Battlefield veteran, Nash spent a good part of 2010 on the Steam Battlefield - with Bad Company (see what we did there?). He has a zero tolerance policy towards RTS games but is currently showing an interest by picking up and moving people - who he refers to as units - in the office. Thank God he's not that enthusiastic about Angry Birds or we'd be seeing women flying all over the place. Bali... Bali, put the receptionist down now.