THQ announces Homefront
THQ today announced Homefront, a first-person shooter from internal developer Kaos Studios. Featuring a back-story written by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn), Homefront is set ten years after the economic collapse of the United States and follows the American Civilian Resistance as they fight to reclaim their homeland from an oppressive North Korean occupation. Featuring a story-driven single player campaign and a full suite of multiplayer options, Homefront is scheduled for release on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows PC. Homefront will be unveiled at E3 2009 in THQ’s booth - number 5300 in the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Set in the year is 2027, Homefront shows a world that has suffered a decade-long energy crisis, and and a society ravaged by a ruined economy. Reduced to a mere shadow of its former self, the United States becomes the target of a North Korean takeover. Now American malls, suburbs and city streets are battlegrounds as the civilian resistance fights for freedom against an unlikely occupier. Sounds like somebody has recycled Red Dawn’s plot.
More details when we have them - including a firm release date.
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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Frontlines Map Pack Released
Fans of Frontlines: Fuel of War may want to log onto Xbox Live Marketplace today to download the new Frontlines 4 Map Pack. This downloadable content, which sells for 800 MS Points, will get what is being billed as “some of the largest, most wide-open multiplayer levels your Xbox 360 has ever seen.” We’ll take Microsoft and THQ at their word on this one.. The four new multiplayer maps were created by Kaos Studios and offer Wide Awake (intense armor engagements), and include Hindsight (air combat), Infiltration (some close quarters combat action), and Sundry (vertical infantry combat).
Log on to Xbox Live Marketplace for more details.
