Devil's Third in purgatory at THQ

santa monica scea or platinum games?

Such a shame. Tecmo destroys Ninja Gaiden and is about to Crapcom the hell out of DOA, and the game Itagaki's been working on for years is as good as dead. No good news has come out of 2012.

Not surprising at all. They had a trailer for this game 2 years ago and nothing new has been shown since then. In all honesty, I can see this game being cancelled. Which would be a shame since I was one of the people looking forward to it.

Can't say I'm surprised. 

Itagaki has really bad acne scars. You rarely see Japanese people with this type of skin condition. He dresses like Billy Idol did in the late 80's who also suspiciously had problem skin. I'm not saying that's  why the game was dropped, but you have to admit, there could be a connection.

Oh man every THQ related news are bad. To think I only care for Metro and Darksiders II for the rest of the year. Also, please THQ execs, listen Itagaki! you can see how bad Ninja Gaiden 3 did.

By the looks of the recently released games, they're all aimed towards casual gamers, Itagaki's games are always headed towards hardcore. Most games coming out the past two years are watered down.

It might be a disagreement between Itagaki and THQ who might wanted the game to be aimed towards casuals? who knows. But i do have faith in Itagaki, look what happened to the disgraceful Ninja Gaiden 3 after his departure.

Business people dont understand creative visions most of the time I think Thq needs to bettter understand the needs of their "target market" before they do something stupid like shelve what might be one of their best titles in years..

I wanted this game so bad, just from one video. I hope someone picks it up, well except for Team Ninja. (they haven't made a good game)

During the last E3 Itagaki was praising THQ for being a great partner...

Well this will turn out to be a good game. Any investors but please not Capcom

Itagaki is a bluff

I'm not surprised to hear this news I found DMC 3 to be dry and a let down for the series as a whole.  Too much time as passed since the series was active on the market so I didn't really have much hope for another title.

smells like death to me

Itagaki will have no problems looking for investors. It will turn out to be THQ's loss, I'm sure of that. Whether this game turns out to be an overwhelming success or not is irrelevant in my opinion.

I mean, what were the early sales figures for Ninja Gaiden back in 2004? Not that great, I'm sure. But the re-releases and sequel turned Ninja Gaiden into quite a lucrative franchise on the back of some deservingly great reviews.

When you have the man who was most likely responsible for the success of Ninja Gaiden Black leading this project, he's worth the risk 100%. If it flops you can take heart in the fact that most games aren't turning a profit today anyway.

However if it gets any level of success, then you have yourself a formula and a following to churn out some sequels and build on a game headed by a man who is known to create products with superior production values - a rarity in any industry today.

Back it 100% and you could have something special. My plan is to buy this game regardless of previews and reviews anyway. After Ninja Gaiden Black, I think Itagaki has earned that much from me as a gamer; that is, one blind purchase.

I can only hope this game finds another publisher willing to support Valhalla Studios.  The videos of the game look extremely promising and considering that Ninja Gaiden 3 turned out to be nothing but a disappointment, a new action game made by Itagaki could take the crown of best action game this gen. 

THQ going down and they cant afford to reasle this game  and haveing cold feet. Head THQ isnt fit enough to run this company and i see homefront 2 will go to cytect thats it.

Tomonobu Itagaki isnt worth the risk people. Especially for the kinda of money they've most likely sunk into this project already.

THQ needs to stay alive till company of heroes 2 comes out

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I can't see them having too much trouble finding someone else to pick the game up, but the writing does seem to be very firmly on the wall for THQ.

Sure hope somebody else will publish it

maybe microsoft??come on we need some exclusives

1. no so long ago, THQ wants to create new IPs as part of their big strategy,

2. they investing a lot of money,

3. now they decided if their new IPs is not worth enough,

4. it's not even released on the market yet.

no wonder THQ going downhill with those kind of management.

The profitability of Devil's Third was not competitive with our other releases. well THQ your not profitable for me so i will continue not to buy your junk games as im not a fan of saints row or any other ass games you have. your loss

He probably refused to make it MP and casual.  Down came the axe.

I understand at the end of the day the video game business  is just that a business...But I feel that unless they take chances on creative properties,all they will be known as is a company that makes cheap knock off games to try and turn a profit. And Without a basic understanding of the fanbase they cater to this is why they are in the red financially, This is why they are failing because they are trying to emulate other businesses in the industry instead of actually making games the fanbase wants to play....

Really hope this gets made, especially seeing how NG3 turned out.

unfortunately i felt THQ is doing the right thing. i doubt devil's third will sell anywhere near 100k in it's first week. and the long development time now means the cost will be too much.

that's great THQ... continue promoting & wish for profitability on your pathetic, same old garbage wrestling games

I hope this game still gets made.

Tomb Raider and Bioshock get delay until 2013, Diablo 3 server went down in less than a day, CAPCOM has no idea how to handle DLC and now THQ is kicking out Devil's Third... What else can possibly go wrong?