THQ Cleans House, Cancelling Frontlines: Fuel Of War for PS3..

[Gikoku]

THQ Cleans House, Cancelling Frontlines: Fuel Of War for PS3..

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Confirming earlier rumors, THQ has announced that the PlayStation 3 version of dystopian shooter, Frontlines: Fuel of War, has been canceled. And it's not the only game to have its plug unceremoniously pulled. Indeed, THQ's update to its fiscal 2008 outlook brings to mind Joystiq's consistently inept maid who's always yanking all the cables out with her feet while she's dusting the office TV.

In describing the publisher's third fiscal quarter (ended December 31, 2007), the report notes "non-cash charges of approximately $27 million" in relation to the cancellation of not only the PlayStation 3 edition of Frontlines, but the PlayStation 2 version of Destroy All Humans!: Big Willy Unleashed. THQ also notes a decision "not to pursue" its Juiced and Stuntman properties, the latter particularly described as underperforming following its release on Xbox 360 and PS3 last year.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: THQ Cleans House, Cancelling Frontlines: Fuel Of War for PS3..

Id heard it was delayed but seems that they just couldnt do it from what ive been reading on the official site right now.

I should also add that we were looking at delaying the PS3 version further and also adding some unique features to it to make it worth the wait, but in the end, it would eat up a lot of time and resources that would go to our next project so the unfortunate decision was made to cancel.

 

[KaveX]

Re: THQ Cleans House, Cancelling Frontlines: Fuel Of War for PS3..

Why are so many games from the PS3 being Cancelled/etc. Is it because of the Coding is really hard or something? :S

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: THQ Cleans House, Cancelling Frontlines: Fuel Of War for PS3..

Why are so many games from the PS3 being Cancelled/etc. Is it because of the Coding is really hard or something? :S

Apparently its the SDK tools and developers finding them overcomplex and just having way too much trouble getting games to run properly using them.