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Darksiders II Delayed by Two Months

By Brian P Rubin | 18 April 2012 | 6 Comments   

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Hot on the heels of news that THQ was starting to turn its fortunes around and focus on a brighter future with its next big title, Darksiders II, we’ve learned that the publisher will be delaying the game until August. It was originally slated to be released on June 26 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, but the extra time will give “additional time for polish and to ensure that all aspects of Darksiders II meet the high-quality bar the team is targeting,” said a post in the game’s official forums today.

The post also denies that the delay is related to recent layoffs at the game’s developer, Vigil Games. Though it doesn’t mention the other THQ-related news from today—it’s entirely possible that the delay is part of an effort by the publisher to schedule things more to their liking. How? I don’t know. A late-summer release date may be just what the doctor ordered in order to avoid competition from other games. Amazing Spider-Man is scheduled to hit on June 26, while Kingdom Hearts 3D comes out in late-July. Aside from Madden NFL 13, August seems to have a relatively sparse release schedule. This is all just a guess, mind you, but it sure does seem possible.

What do you think? Are you upset that Darksiders II is delayed? Or are you happy to have the developers squash more bugs?

THQ via Eurogamer

6 Comments

  1. Posted by LimeDude on 18 April 12 at 9:44am

    FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUU*************************************KKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I need to play this game! I know it is so good that it would get 9/10 scores if it would release now.

  2. Posted by Samuel McBee on 18 April 12 at 11:10am

    THQ needed to release this in June not August it seems like August is too crowded and will hurt its sales, a day one patch would have probably have worked fine. Did they not learn anything about Saints Row the Third it would have done better if not crowded by the big boys.

  3. Posted by stewpid on 18 April 12 at 12:36pm

    *Reads article saying about the relatively few game releases in August* AUGUST IS TOO CROWDED HERP DERP

  4. Posted by L.R. (aka ScreamoLuvr) on 18 April 12 at 1:55pm

    Aw fanboys are going to be pissed.

    TO KICKSTARTER!

  5. Posted by Name's not important on 18 April 12 at 4:39pm

    Hm, I wonder if they’d have to put out some new pre-order set bonuses, as foul as they are but if you think about if they have to months they have extra time to get those done but why hold those back for the official release once they’re done before release, or maybe two months is too short of a time to get the rest of the Pre-order exclusives ready.
    I dunno, it just seems like a thought worth having a look at. Well whatever the case I know that when it comes out I’ll just get the Nordic Edition (at least I hope they’ll do a Nordic Edition) in stores and get all those extra features built in either way so yay for that.

  6. Posted by Hasan Habib on 19 April 12 at 8:54am

    I just hope the game was worth the delay

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