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Steam News · Aug 31, 2023
Embracer Group have announced that they're closing down Volition, the Illinois, US-based developer best known today for Saints Row and Red Faction. The announcement - which coincided with the predictably uproarious lifting of Starfield's review embargo, though I'm sure the timing is purely accidental - comes as part of broader restructuring at Embracer Group following a multiple-year acquisition s...
Steam News · Sep 2, 2021
THQ Nordic is celebrating its 10th birthday this month, and it’s throwing a party for the fans with a showcase of upcoming games. It’s happening September 17th, and will be livestreamed on YouTube, Twitch, and Steam at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM BST. Hosted by Geoff Keighley, the showcase will feature six upcoming games, including “the return of legendary franchises, including some for which ...
Steam News · Aug 8, 2019
Red Faction is a story about a moron. (more…)
Steam News · Jul 3, 2018
Time to wreak havoc on Mars with your sledgehammer once more Vienna/Austria, July 3rd, 2018: In 2125 there is no mining your own business on Mars: The Earth Defense Force (EDF) is strong-arming everyone into work and sending the resulting hard-earned resources back to Earth. Suppression, executions, violence everywhere… it’s no wonder a famous resistance group rises once more. And you? You will be...
Steam News · Mar 21, 2017
Yesterday brought word of Square Enix's up-to-75-percent-off sale, and today brings with it news of Humble Store's THQ Nordic Week limited-time discount period. Offering up to 80 percent off select games, the THQ Nordic Week sale casts its wallet-friendly net over some of the publisher's games (Nordic Games, you may recall, rebranded last year) such as the Red Faction Collecti...
Steam News · Jan 8, 2013
THQ, the troubled publisher of Saints Row, WWE games, Company of Heroes, Metro: Last Light, the new South Park role-playing game, Red Faction and more, may still be sold in its entirety to an investment group called Clearlake as part of a bankruptcy sale, according to a court ruling. But other interested parties may also bid on pieces of the company, which is why word has been making the rounds t...
Steam News · Sep 11, 2012
Save 75% on the Red Faction Franchise during this week's Midweek Madness*! Wreak havoc across the vast, open-world environment of Mars in the the critically acclaimed, best-selling Red Faction Franchise. Rebel against the Ultor Corporation, replace the dictator Sopot to restore peace, battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force (EDF) and finally save Mars from a long-dormant evil...
Steam News · Jul 28, 2011
Despite the guilty pleasures of Red Faction: Guerilla, all it took was one sub-par game in the series (Red Faction: Armageddon) for publisher THQ to, at least temporarily, pull the plug on the series. Which is a damn shame. In memory of a franchise (or at least its contemporary revival) that lived too fast and died too young, then, here's a collection of top-shelf concept art from the pariah itse...
Steam News · Jul 27, 2011
THQ has pulled the plug on its Red Faction franchise following poor sales of RF: Armageddon. Speaking at an investor call today, CEO Brian Farrell confirmed that "we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way." He added that the development team at Volition has been moved onto Guillermo del Toro's inSane survival horror project. The series began back in 2001 as an FPS...
Steam News · Jul 27, 2011
Poor sales of Red Faction: Armageddon this year means the end of the franchise, publisher THQ said in a conference call today. Brian Farrell, the THQ chief executive, told investors that "we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way." Volition, the studio developing the series, has now been reassigned to Guillermo del Toro's inSane game project, a survival horror ga...