Queen headlines LEGO Rock Band
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and MTV Games today announced that LEGO Rock Band will feature the likeness of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Queen. Appearing in the game as LEGO minifigures, front man Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor will be rocking out to their hits “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions.”
Guitarist Brian May seems excited about it: “This is IT! I wanna play!,” he said. “When do I get my toy LEGO man?” Right on, we say.
Today also marks the release of the Queen pack for the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content, featuring 10 of the band’s most loved songs including Killer Queen, Somebody to Love, Fat Bottomed Girls and the Queen/David Bowie collaboration, Under Pressure. In addition, Queen will release Absolute Greatest on Nov. 17, featuring 20 of the band’s biggest hits.
LEGO Rock Band is scheduled for release holiday 2009.
Vigil, Volition keeping busy
According to GameSpot story, a slide seen in an THQ investors’ presentation from February (click the screenshot to the left to check it out) offers a sneak peek at its release schedule for the next few fiscal quarters.
THQ’s in-house studios Vigil, Volition and Relic are hard at work on several games:
Vigil
Darksiders: Wrath of War: An action RPG for PS3 and 360, coming sometime this year
Darksiders 2: Coming sometime after April 1, 2011
An as of yet unnamed Warhammer 40,000 MMO also coming sometime after April 1, 2011
Volition
Red Faction: Guerilla: a third-person shooter for PS3, 360 and PC, coming June 9
Saints Row 3: a sequel to the popular open world, street gang franchise, planned for sometime after April 1, 2010
Red Faction “4″: planned for after April 1, 2011
Relic:
Company of Heroes Online: A persistent world RTS co-developed with Chinese online company Shanda is supposedly coming to the United States sometime in 2009-early 2010
A new Relic action game is planned for sometime after April 1, 2010
Also in the presentation, THQ promised a continued emphasis on its popular wrestling and fighting franchises, as well as more games from developers Kaos Studios (Frontlines), Juice Games (Juiced) and Blue Tongue (de Blob and the upcoming Marvel Super Hero Squad).
Conspicuously absent from the presentation was Big Huge Games, which is working on an as yet unnamed RPG headed up by Ken Rolston of Oblivion and Morrowind fame. BHG was recently hit with numerous layoffs and THQ has said it is looking for a buyer for the studio.
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