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THQ EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag First Darksiders 'Hellbook' reveals powers, weapons 6 Along with the first in its series of "Hellbook" videos, THQ sent us a mess of information about the weapons and powers that will appear in the upcoming Darksiders.  From what we're told, W... Joe Madureira draws a horse in new Darksiders video 7 Part two of THQ's video interview with Darksiders creative director Joe Madureira is here, and this time the comic book artist discusses the creation of a number of key characters and his inspir... MX vs ATV Reflex demo now available, also bikini girls 8 The MX vs. ATV Reflex demo is now available for all on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. The demo has one outdoor event, one freestyle event and six tutorial lessons. The demo will give you... Joe Madureira talks Darksiders 18 Artist Joe Madureira is talking about Darksiders in this brand new promotional video for THQ's promising looking action game. In an age where we constantly talk about moral choices and complex m... Saints Row 2 DLC is on sale, go make Gary Busey proud 7 You know what, I don't even need to sell you on the "Ultor Exposed" add-on for Saints Row 2. Volition somehow managed to capture Gary Busey's antics on tape just long enough to create an adverti... Exclusive: Full Achievements/Trophies for Darksiders 19 We're really looking forward to Darksiders at Destructoid, and THQ apparently likes that we're looking forward to it. Both of these elements have collided to allow us to be the first ones to show... New Darksiders trailer is pretty kick-ass 14 THQ has unleashed a hot new trailer for Darksiders upon the world and it looks pretty damn good. It seems that this game has been consistently looking bigger and better as time goes on, and one ... Pre-order Darksiders, get free book and in-game scythe 8 THQ's Darksiders is hitting January 5, 2010, after what has felt like ten thousand years of development, and GameStop has revealed yet another of its exclusive pre-order incentives. Reserving the... THQ celebrates Halloween 12 Damn, THQ goes all out on Halloween. Well, some of its employees do for the annual Halloween contest. While not strictly gaming related (which is a little odd considering this is a gaming company... Darksiders 2 being discussed, may have multiplayer 14 Steady on, THQ! The first Darksiders hasn't even been released yet, but already there is talk of a Darksiders 2. Creative director Luis Gigliotti spilled the beans in an interview with GameAxis, ... THQ sends me tickets to ride Metro 2033 12 This weekend, I received a nondescript envelope in the mail. Inside the brown envelope I found a letter confirming my trip to ride the Moscow Metro, along with two tickets. I immediately made the... First look at Metro 33 reveals monster, broken things 21 Earlier today, THQ announced that it would be publishing Metro 2033, a first-person shooter based on a best-selling Russian novel, for Xbox 360 and PC in early 2010. Now, we bring you the fi... THQ snaps up new FPS, Metro 2033 30 Strap yourselves in and prepare for yet another post-apocalyptic shooter, folks! THQ has revealed that it is publishing a new first-person-shooter from Ukrainian studio 4A Games. According to THQ... Our first real glimpse of Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising 24 Accompanying an incredibly short teaser trailer for the Chaos Rising expansion to Relic Entertainment's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is something slightly more useful: actual in-game screensh... PAX 09: Nick vs. Darksiders' mechanical Ruin 19 A few weeks back, THQ contacted me to let me know it would be bringing a mechanical horse to PAX. The horse, I was told, was designed by special effects man Evan Brainard, and was modeled after t... PAX 09: Ride a mechanical horse of doom at PAX 4 THQ will be at PAX this weekend showing off their upcoming game of doomyness, Darksiders. They will also have a giant Darksiders Mechanical Horse that looks like Ruin, the horse in Darksiders. ... On Assignment: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 38 THQ officially announced WWE: SmackDown! vs. Raw 2010 and Destructoid was there to capture every moment of the amazing press event.  Watch as Ted DiBiase almost tosses me out the window, my ... What!!? Mr. McMahon is in trouble with this exclusive DLC 20 If you can look past the lame PowerPoint slide (or as the Apple kids call it, Keynote), and the neatly numbered WWE Superstars, you'll discover our good old friend "Stone Cold" Steve Au... THQ leg drops Smackdown vs Raw 2010 at SummerSlam 8 THQ welcomed the gaming press to their "pre-SummerSlam" event last night and dropped a couple of bombshells when they decided to show off WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010. With SummerSlam only... Red Faction's 'Demons of the Badlands' add-on out now 5 Today is August 13, and you know what that means: it's Super Happy Red Faction: Guerrilla Add-on Day! Whip out those party hats, people."Demons of the Badlands," the first of a few plan... THQ to buy Midway San Diego for $200,000, TNA not included 5 I don't tend to get interested in the "business" end of gaming -- stock prices, mergers, hostlie takeovers, etc. I don't know a lot about business or economics and I'd rather be talking... Check out MX vs ATV Reflex's Rider Reflex feature 16 A brand new trailer for MX vs ATV Reflex is out and it highlights the game’s Rider Reflex feature. Reflex will see players controlling both the vehicle and the rider. You’ll be able t... Red Faction: Guerrilla reaches one million units shipped 22 It looks like Volition's hope for a word of mouth success for Red Faction: Guerrilla worked out for the developer after all. THQ sent out its June quarter results today and the company earned som... Mark Hamill's in Darksiders, new videos prove it 24 Did you know that Mark Hamill was in Darksiders? I didn't know that! He's playing a character called The Watcher, who is in charge of making sure that the game's antagonist, War, does his job cor... Darksiders trailer rides on a not-so-pale horse 11 Death still follows, though.After the jump, you can check out a trailer THQ recently released for Darksiders. Thing is, I'm either crazy or I've absolutely seen this before. I seem to recall car ... Swedish metal band announces Saints Row PSP... huh? 22 While its direct open-world rival Grand Theft Auto has made the portable rounds, THQ and Volition's Saints Row has not. But that may be changing soon, as according to the Swedish metal band Opeth... UFC president: EA doesn't give a #@%! about MMA 52 Perhaps you've heard, but THQ's UFC Undisputed sold like gangbusters. Hot on the heels of its success, EA Sports announced that it would be headed into the mixed martial arts territory with a gam... Preview: MX vs. ATV Reflex 6 Off-road racing is a potentially dangerous endeavor. Hell, we nearly lost our own Hamza Aziz to an ATV accident last year -- but, shark that he is, he merely brushed off the crash and continued o... UFC 2009: Undisputed receiving patch 'soon' 14 According to a recent blog posting on the official UFC 2009: Undisputed Web site (spotted by IGN), THQ is working on a gargantuan patch (or title update) for the brawler that will address multipl... Preview: Darksiders 31 THQ’s Darksiders is a game I’ve been keeping an eye on ever since it was announced way back at E3 2007. It’s been repeatedly delayed; the game is now set for release on January ... Here are your superstars of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 24 While everyone in the WWE is a "superstar," the true stars are those that grace the cover of THQ's wrestling titles every year. Today, THQ has revealed the cover bad-asses for this fall... Darksiders cloth map winners announced! 29 By the bulging blisters of Baldur's blue bumhole, we've got ourselves twenty lucky Destructoid members who have won themselves a Darksiders cloth map, courtesy of the fine folks at THQ! As you ma... THQ sues Jakks Pacific over WWE contract 12 Things just got real (again) between THQ and Jakks Pacific. The publisher of Red Faction: Guerrilla and Legends of Wrestlemania recently sued the toymaker over a decision to extend their joint de... New Darksiders trailer is all growly and stuff 17 Nothing screams “epic” like characters will gravely voices, and this latest trailer for Vigil Games’ Darksiders has them in spades. Everyone sounds like they smoke six packs a d... THQ working on an accessory, will hit in 2010 8 THQ brass thinks a peripheral will give them a “competitive advantage.” In an article in the LA Business Journal (spotted by Kotaku), THQ chief executive Brian Farell teased an upcomi... Darksiders cloth map acquired! You can win one too! 55 The other evening I posted a story about THQ's old school cloth map that was produced for Darksiders I also bitched about not having one, and made threats as I often do on the frontpage when I wa... More free Saint's Row DLC drops, Busey's still crazy 20 Yesterday Like a bajillion years age before the dinosaurs roamed the Earth (according to our astute and so very vocal readers), more downloadable content for Saint's Row 2 -- called the "UnK... Dear THQ: We covet your Darksiders cloth map 9 I've been itching to play THQ's Darksiders: Wrath of War for an incredibly long time now. In fact, I was supposed to be previewing the thing in LA several months ago before the event was postpone... Rocket Riot coming to XBLA tomorrow, we have 12 THQ logos to prove it 10 THQ has announced that the Codeglue-developed Rocket Riot has cut through all of the Microsoft certification red tape and will be released on Xbox LIVE Marketplace tomrorow, June 17. Available f... THQ encourages car-smashing theft to promote new Red Faction 29 In what may have stumped Electronic Arts for the title of "most insane promotional stunt ever," THQ yesterday filled a car with 100 copies of Red Faction: Guerrilla and then parked it i... Happy New Year's gift: Darksiders drops January 1, 2010 8 I know exactly what I'll be doing this New Year's Day while trying to shake off my hangover.  No, not hoofing up bourbon -- I'll be playing Darksiders. THQ had Darksiders on display at E3, a... E3 09: The Koreans are coming! First look at THQ's Homefront 24 THQ invited us into a mini-theater during a meeting to show off Homefront, a new first-person shooter coming from Kaos Studios. We didn't know what to expect going in, but we came out impressed, ... E3 09: Impressions of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter 7 Platformer Drawn to Life has made its way to the Wii (and back to the DS again) in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, THQ's game that lets you draw your own hero and then play with it. Or draw your... THQ bigwig: The Wii is a Monopoly box in a closet 21 Mention the Wii in these circles, and some potentially upsetting comment isn't far away. Calling it a "Monopoly box in a closet," THQ SVP of Creative Development Danny Bilson has shared... THQ announces Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 38 Do you remember a while back, when we found a Youtube video of a Space Marine action game? As someone who is particularly fond of Warhammer 40,000 games, I never quite forgot, and have been patie... THQ's Marvel Super Hero Squad is sickeningly cute 19 THQ has taken pre-E3 as the opportunity to finally reveal more information on Marvel Super Hero Squad, an action title based on the upcoming Cartoon Network animated series, The Super Hero Squad ... Apocalypse Now scribe pens new FPS, THQ's Homefront 13 When it comes to war, screenwriter John Milius knows a thing or two about a thing or two. The man  wrote the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Red Dawn; how’s that for a resume? But w... Red Faction: Guerrilla multiplayer demo available (Update) 14 We’ve gotten our hands on Red Faction: Guerrilla quite a few times now and we’ve yet to leave disappointed. Now it’s your turn. This morning, the Red Faction: Guerrilla multipla... How royalty games: Queen of England given a gold Wii 30 You know, I might write about games for a living, but no one has ever brought me a fancy console as a gift. That is an honor most likely reserved for celebrities and other such non-commoners, suc... New Darksiders trailer may be generic, but it gets my vote 25 Poor Darksiders: Wrath of War just can't catch a break -- the game's no where near being released (it's slated for August 25), and the general around the internet seems to be that it's just too g... Interview: Rick White, Producer of Red Faction: Guerrilla 9 Red Faction: Guerrilla is one hell of a game. When the entire gameplay experience is based around destroying every last thing in your way, it had better be one destructive mess. That's fantastic ... Preview: Red Faction: Guerrilla (multiplayer) 17 One of the first games I got when I picked up the PlayStation 2 was the original Red Faction. I would spend hours just "digging" holes leading off to nowhere in the hopes that I would &... Red Faction: Guerrilla multiplayer demo coming May 21 21 Ben PerLee and I were at a Red Faction: Guerrilla event earlier this week where we got some extensive hands-on time with the game's multiplayer offerings. We're under embargo so we can't say much... Preview: UFC 2009: Undisputed 25 I'll come right out now and be perfectly honest with you -- I don't watch UFC. I have no idea who any of the fighters are, regardless of how ultimate they may be, and I have no idea why any of th... What the videogame industry can learn from Deadly Creatures 47 Playing Deadly Creatures and Killzone 2 within a month of each other had a very surprising effect on me.On the one hand, you have Deadly Creatures, a Wii exclusive and somewhat mediocre action pl... UFC: Undisputed and Red Faction: Guerrilla demos hit today 24 THQ is on a demo rampage today, releasing two demos today -- UFC: Undisputed and Red Faction: Guerrilla. Both demos are available now on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and will appear on the PlayStation ... Doink, Bushwackers, more headed to Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 23 THQ has just announced that a new batch of downloadable content is available for WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Fans of early-90's wrestling should pay close atten... Saints Row 2 DLC pushed back to April 23 10 THQ has let us know that it's decided to push back the DLC for its fun crime-em-up sequel, Saints Row 2. Released on April 23, "Ultor Exposed" will include a brand new mission arc, alon... THQ hates Canada 20 Ok, not really. I'm sure THQ loves Canada just as equally as the rest of the world. However, it turns out that a whole bunch of copies of Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor shipped up in Canada wi... THQ already eyeing more Red Faction, Darksiders titles 8 In an investor's conference call held way too early this morning, THQ rambled on about a bunch of numbers and dollar signs, while confirming plans for upcoming titles and franchises. Red Fac... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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