Warner Bros. among interested THQ bidders

Warner Bros. should not be allowed the rights to both DC comics movies and WH40K games. Too much power. They must be assimilated.

Sure THQ is done with but it still had strong ponts like Darksiders II.

If Warner Bros or UbiSoft buys out THQ, then I'll stop buying "THQ" games too.

Warner will force in Games for Windows Live into all new releases and Ubi will force in their uPlay launcher and I have no interest in either of them - These companies are already on my "do not buy from" list.

They're just a publisher, them disappearing shouldn't much affect the development studios behind, they can distribute their games through different publishers instead then.

As long as games are free from DRM, don't require a 3rd party launcher or account registration and are playable offline I don't care too much where I buy them from or who's publishing them.

I'd even buy directly from these developers (Volition, Relic Entertainment, Gas Powered Games, 4A, ...), which would be even better because then there's no publishers inbetween and the people actually developing the game get more for their efforts without some 3rd parties taking their cut for wasting millions on marketing.

They should buy City Of Heroes from NCsoft! The COH community are one of the most loyal and dedicated! Please resurrect my City!!

Revive Darksiders....

warner bros are douchbags

valve should buy them instead!

It's very clear THQ is trying to make a sleazy sweetheart deal with Clearlake.  The THQ president has friends on the Clearlake board.  Golden parachute away!

they should put the whole thing on sale! not piece by piece but this story is getting good.

This is very disappointing news.  THQ is one of the few publishers that consistently contributed to the development of great titles and customer service.  Can't help but wonder if that is sadly why they are bankrupt.

it would be very interesting and hilarious if WB bought THQ... THQ published WCW games, which OWNED WCW til WWE bought them out. It makes you wonder how WWE would feel knowing their former competitor's owner is putting their name on their game now! 

THQ is down, the entire industry is failing anyway. There will only be annual releases by EA Sports, COD, AC, until people finally stop buying their annual update for $60.

If that's the case, I hope THQ doesn't end up like Monolith Productions. Remember F.E.A.R.? Yeah, it used to be a scary game...

Well yeah, this would be great.  WB published Rocksteady's Batman Arkham City.  And how about let Rocksteady helm some THQ titles and make them their own?  That would be badass.

Whoever ends up buying THQ, I hope it isn't a first party console company like Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony. The last thing I want is for a whole bunch of series to end up as one-console-exclusives.

This...this makes a lot of sense, actually.

I hope they do buy them and say bye bye to the wwe games

I wonder what will happen to Metro last light? Will it have a Mickey mouse protagonist?  or will it be a serious game like Metro 2033.

I hope WB buys them. :)

If only GOG.com could purchase struggling publishers. I'll say even more: if only more publishers were struggling, then GOG.com could purchase all of them and bring balance to the force... I mean the industry.

People don't know math.

1) THQ made debt. They need to pay it.

2) On the other hand, the company has to be sold quickly otherwise it's value will drop.

3) The company is in debt. People will have to be fired to make it stable again. And it will be bought out. So there will be redundancy. People will be fired either way. Selling in with a stable and clean plan allows jobs to be saved. There needs to be a balance.

4) Half the people complaining probably pirated at least one game from THQ. So congrats. You added to this situation.

More on my third point, if it is not done correctly, you just get another GM. Truckload of money pumped into the company. Company goes bankrupt anyway and fires people. If this is not done correctly, THQ will just have to fire more people later on. Better right the first time.

DO THE MATH! THQ clearly doesn't know how to spend money. They made debt. If they repay the debt, that money will be used to fund better projects. Instead getting flushed down some hole by these THQ executives.

Makers versus takers. You all think welching on your debt is a good thing. THQ failed. Why should they be rewarded for failing? Get the good employees new jobs, and fire the executives for their failure. Do you people even know why there are golden parachutes? It's to stop hostile corporate takeovers.

So the executives that made the debt get a truckload and a half in payments. And then regular joe loses his job because no company is willing to go near THQ because of it's debt. If THQ welches on its debt, how many future companies will go near them? None. Good job getting funding for another game. If THQ doesn't pay up, in the long term the company will go belly up.

THQ hello?any news for Warhammer series?it's 2013 and you wanna say you got nothing planned for it?

Thank you corporate america for once again proving that it's the bottomline that counts.

THQ mamages to find a way to preserve itself as a full company and what do the investors do? Bitch that they didn't try breaking the company apart first for "profit" because we all know you get more bank for buck when you start a fire sale of your studios!