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Four THQ Titles Outed In Bankruptcy Filing

THQ's Chapter 11 filing has revealed the titles of four of the company's current projects, including the game Patrice Désilets is working on at THQ Montreal.

Polygon ferreted the game titles out of THQ's legal documents, which reveal what each company is working on. They are as follows:

  • Crawler, the working title for the new game being developed by Darksiders' creators, Vigil Games.
  • Atlas, the working title for a new game from Relic Entertainment, scheduled to release in calendar year 2014.
  • Evolve, a new game from Left 4 Dead creators Turtle Rock Studios.
  • 1666, the game currently under development at THQ Montreal, led by former Assassin's Creed creative director Patrice Désilets.

While the documents list the names as working titles, THQ has issued trademarks for both "Evolve" and "1666." Earlier today, THQ president Jason Rubin tweeted that Company of Heroes 2, Metro: Last Light, and South Park: The Stick of Truth are all still on schedule, so hopefully these four games also won't be affected by the sale.

Source: Kurtzman Carson Consultants via Polygon

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  • so what exactly is happening to THQ? Just being bought out or what, I understand they are bankrupt but it looks like they got a lot of games in the work here.
  • No Darksiders 3 :(
  • This is absolutely terrible considering THQ is a publisher that still seems to care about the consumers and not just their wallets. I'm glad that 'Metro: Last Light', 'Company of Heroes 2' and 'South Park: The Stick of Truth' will release. What's happening to 'Homefront 2' now? The game has been in development by Crytek as far as I remember but it is still published by THQ. I wish THQ good luck, I'm going to pick up both Metro and CoH2 on release and I will bitchslap everyone who's going to pirate them.
  • I will give THQ hope this year.

  • I wonder if the Humble Bundle was part of their farewell. "Here, take these games at whatever price. Our gift to you."

    Because they certainly didn't make back enough to cover their losses and they had no control where the money would go. Charity, Humble Bundle Inc...

    It just didn't seem like a business move because they're smart enough to know it wasn't going to get them back on the map, those losses are immense and they likely knew of the impending bankruptcy before the Bundle.
  • Too bad, really sorry to hear about this. Even though THQ's games haven't been selling too well, they're really a great company.

  • Darksiders 1 and 2 were really great titles.not as good as skyrim, but still great games. I sincerely hope this franchise does get a third installment at some point in the future.
  • I'm actually intrigued by those 4 games...

  • As long as Metro isn't affected I couldn't care less for the other titles.
  • Seriously, 1666? That reads like an XBL username used by a ten year-old. The others, however, sound interesting. I hope they manage to survive THQ's issues.
  • I may sound uninformed, but where's Homefront 2?
  • I think Stick of Truth has a great chance at being the crucial hit that THQ was hoping for with SR3 and DS2. I'm certainly eagerly awaiting that release.

    Aside from that I think they'd do well to draw the strings in a bit and scale down their scope to include more DLGs, which are at a price point where you can spend a lot less, but because of that smaller scale you still get an impressive, polished product. Most importantly, working on that smaller scale probably has a higher profit margin than even a successful triple-A title, and much much less risk (we know what happens when those triple-A's fall flat; their pubs file a Chapter 11).

  • seems some of the games looks interesting.

  • No Darksiders?

  • Damn :/ They were a good company. I hope them luck and hope to God EA and Activision don't buy them, hopefully Take-Two steps in.
  • As long as Company of Heroes 2 comes out on time, then I'll be satisfied.

  • If they cancel Metro LL and South Park I'll go game 7 in Vancouver on their studio.

  • I wish the best for THQ. It's a shame that all this has to happen to them. But I'm glad they're working very hard to keep all these games on track, even during all this struggle.

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