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Homefront Reviews Kill THQ Stock

By Robert Hathorne | 16 March 2011 | 4 Comments   

Following less than stellar reviews of Homefront on Metacritic, THQ stock dropped in value by nearly 26 percent yesterday. Obviously, that’s not good news for any publisher, but this comes in the wake of poor sales of De Blob 2, rumors that Homefront developer, Kaos Studios could be relocated, and waning sales of the uDraw game tablet. Hopefully they can pull a win out of the situation with Saint’s Row: The Third.

Read our Homefront review here.

[via GamesIndustry.biz]

4 Comments

  1. Posted by Mugenite on 16 March 11 at 11:45pm

    They keep closing down these studios… Its beginning to scare me a little. While I don’t like where things are going, I get the feeling that natural selection is beginning to take form in the gaming industry. Best to THQ.

  2. Posted by Cole on 17 March 11 at 12:56am

    @Mugenite I could not agree with you more. Survival of the fittest seems to be the norm for all business these days and I have the same emotions as well. This scary. If the game does not sell like COD (for example) then they will most likely fail. Even Industry’s that have been in the industry for 10 years are now shutting down. This is terrible news for those games that are decent and worth the 60 bucks but just don’t get enough hype and sales. It is just sad.

    :’(

  3. Posted by noobsauce on 17 March 11 at 2:51am

    i dont see how it dropped so much, i mean homefront sold well, so well they ran out of servers and i still cant get a game

  4. Posted by Inside Gaming: Daily Video Gaming News Blog | Machinima.com | Machinima.com Inside Gaming News on 17 March 11 at 2:02pm

    [...] middling review scores that that coincided with THQ’s stock plummeting by nearly 26 percent on Tuesday, Homefront has managed to sell 375,000 units through to customers [...]

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