{"id":155976,"date":"2019-08-14T23:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1799979\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T23:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T15:17:58","slug":"thq-nordic-revives-saints-row-timesplitters-and-dead-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/14\/thq-nordic-revives-saints-row-timesplitters-and-dead-island\/","title":{"rendered":"THQ Nordic Revives \u2018Saints Row,\u2019 \u2018TimeSplitters,\u2019 and \u2018Dead Island\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Saints-Row-IV.jpg?resize=625%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"350\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019re not sure how to feel about THQ Nordic. The company seemed to buy its way into gamers\u2019 good graces by gobbling up the name and valuable properties of the old bankrupt THQ. And then they thought it was a good idea to hold Q+A on 8chan, a website that was recently shut down for being a literal den of pedophiles and mass shooters. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Still, at least the publisher is doing stuff with all these franchises, from <em>Darksiders<\/em> to <em>Destroy All Humans<\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/memes-brought-spongebob-squarepants-battle-for-bikini-bottom-back-to-life-1790491\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>SpongeBob SquarePants<\/em><\/a>. And in a recent financial report, THQ Nordic detailed plans for even more revivals of past hits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V9WoYYfAqxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Saints Row<\/em> more than any other franchise bought the old THQ its extra last few years of all. The open-world crime game steadily evolved beyond mere <em>GTA<\/em> knock-off into its own ridiculous thing full of wacky hijinx and full-on superpowers. However, the franchise has been somewhat dormant following the tepid response to spin-off game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/agents-of-mayhem-is-fun-but-saints-row-has-always-been-annoying-1712476\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Agents of Mayhem<\/em><\/a>. Fortunately,<em> Saints Row 5<\/em> (or whatever they call it) is \u201cdeep in development\u201d from creators Volition.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like we\u2019ve been hearing about <em>Dead Island 2<\/em> for twenty years now. The original zombie RPG (featuring the famously misleading sad trailer) was developed by Techland. And they continued the series in all but name only with <em>Dying Light<\/em>. But the actual <em>Dead Island 2<\/em> has gone through multiple developers, starting with Yager Development before moving to Sumo Digital. And now Dambuster Studios, developers of fellow inexplicable sequel <em>Homefront: The Revolution<\/em>, will hopefully take the project to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Dambuster Studios is made up of many veterans from Free Radical Design, the developers of the beloved history-altering <em>TimeSplitters<\/em> first-person shooter series. So fans should rejoice because creator Steve Ellis has partnered with THQ Nordic to \u201cplot the future course\u201d of the <em>TimeSplitters<\/em> franchise.<\/p>\n<p>For more, here are our thoughts on recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nintendo-switch-1685280\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Switch<\/a> ports of THQ Nordic games including the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/go-to-hell-with-darksiders-and-these-other-nintendo-switch-games-1780759\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Darksiders<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/saints-row-the-third-and-shakedown-hawaii-are-gta-on-nintendo-switch-1786863\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Saints Row: The Third<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Saints-Row-IV.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"350\"><\/figure>\n<p>We&rsquo;re not sure how to feel about THQ Nordic. The company seemed to buy its way into gamers&rsquo; good graces by gobbling up the name and valuable properties of the old bankrupt THQ. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/thq-nordic-revives-saints-row-timesplitters-and-dead-island-1799979\/\">THQ Nordic Revives &lsquo;Saints Row,&rsquo; &lsquo;TimeSplitters,&rsquo; and &lsquo;Dead Island&rsquo;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/14\/thq-nordic-revives-saints-row-timesplitters-and-dead-island\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6689,2054,2,2047,5096,6690,6691,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-EzK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155977,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155976\/revisions\/155977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}