It shouldn’t come as a surprise that THQ has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. After months of struggling, the company will now enter a purchasing agreement with a bidder to acquire “substantially all of the assets of THQ’s operating business, including THQ’s four owned studios and games in development.”
Filing for bankruptcy will allow for an easier transition of owned studios and games that are currently in the works. THQ Wireless, THQ Digital Studios Phoenix, Saints Row developer Volition Inc., and Darksiders creator Vigil Games are specifically mentioned in the announcement.
Resident Evil 6 sales haven’t met expectations. Capcom also just announced today that Monster Hunter 4 is being delayed to Summer 2013, into the next fiscal year. Because of these two reasons, the company has lowered its earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013.
Originally, a forecast of 105,000 million yen in net sales was set. Capcom is now revising the figure to 93,500 million yen, down 11 percent. Sales, operating income and net income are all less than what was previously forecast.
Capcom commented:
“Sales of the major new title Resident Evil 6 were initially strong, but subsequently weakened. As a result, sales for this title are certain to fall short of the plan. In addition, the launch of Monster Hunter 4, which was scheduled for March 2013, has been pushed back to the next fiscal year in order to further raise the quality of the game.”
As promised earlier this week, the Club Nintendo 3DS game card case is now back in stock. You can order the reward here. Pricing is set at the standard 250 coin amount.
01./00. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone – Neppuu / Raimei
02./05. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf #
03./03. [3DS] Paper Mario: Sticker Star
04./01. [PS3] Yakuza 5 #
05./02. [WIU] New Super Mario Bros. U
06./08. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 #
07./07. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition #
08./09. [3DS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Magnagate and the Infinite Dungeon
09./00. [3DS] Toriko: Gourmet Monsters!
10./06. [WIU] Nintendo Land
11./10. [3DS] Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney
12./04. [WIU] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate #
13./12. [PS3] Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational #
14./16. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire!
15./13. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!)
16./17. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2
17./18. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters
18./00. [PS3] Romance of the Three Kingdoms 12 #
19./00. [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012: Definitive Edition
20./19. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb
Famicom Wars will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on December 26 for 500 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.
New Super Mario Bros. 2’s fourth DLC pack will be its last. Tomorrow, the Mystery Adventures Pack and Impossible Pack will be available for $2.50 each.
A rundown of each can be found below.
Mystery Adventure Pack
– 3/5 star difficulty rating
– Search for hidden paths
– Collect as many coins as possible
Impossible Pack
– Difficulty rating goes beyond 5 stars – “DANGER!”
– No coins or power-ups
– Number of coins you get solely amounts to how much time you have left at the end of each level
– First level: swim through a sea of Cheep-Cheeps and jump on small platforms while dodging birds and Spineys
The latest deals from GameStop are as follows:
Namco Bandai’s Jump Festa 2013 lineup is as follows:
Information Display
- One Piece: Romance Dawn (PSP)
- One Piece: Grand Collection (Mobile)
- Gintama no Sugoroku (PSP)
- Mobile Gintama (Android/Mobile)
- Summon Night 3 (PSP)
- Summon Night 4 (PSP)
- Summon Night 5 (PSP)
- Summon Night Collection (GREE)
Videos
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (PS3/PSVita)
- One Piece: Romance Dawn (PSP)
- One Piece: Grand Collection (Mobile)
- Toriko: Gourmet Monsters (3DS)
- Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (3DS)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PS3/360)
- Naruto SD: Powerful Shippuden (3DS)
- Gintama no Sugoroku (PSP)
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle (PS3)
- Summon Night 3 (PSP)
- Summon Night 4 (PSP)
- Summon Night 5 (PSP)
- Summon Night Collection (GREE)
- Tales of Xillia 2 (PS3)
- Tales of Hearts R (PSVita)
- Tales of Kizna (Mobage)
- Tales of Card Evolve (GREE)
- Tales of the World Tactics Union (Android)
- Tales of the World Dice Adventure (PC/Mobile/iOS/Android)
- Digimon Adventure (PSP)
- Saint Seiya Omega Ultimate Cosmo (PSP)
- Tokitowa: Time & Eternity (PS3)
- Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle Royale (Arcade Machine)
Playable Demo
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (PS3/PSVita)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PS3/360)
- Naruto SD: Powerful Shippuden (3DS)
- Toriko: Gourmet Monsters (3DS)
- Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (3DS)
- Gintama no Sugoroku (PSP)
- Tales of Hearts R (PSVita)
- Digimon Adventure (PSP)
- Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle Royale (Arcade Machine)
Playable in Tournament
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PS3/360)
- Naruto SD: Powerful Shippuden (3DS)
- Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (3DS)
