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by Nick Breckon, Mar 17, 2009 4:38pm PDTPublisher THQ today announced that Big Huge Games, developer of the excellent RTS franchise Rise of Nations, is now up for sale.
"THQ informed the staff at its Big Huge Games studio in Timonium, MD, that it plans to close the studio if a sale is not completed in the near future," said THQ in a statement to CrispyGamer. "These actions were unfortunate but were necessitated by the difficult economic environment."
The move is part of a series of cutbacks at THQ due to disappointing financial results. The company plans to eventually slash 24% of its workforce.
THQ acquired Big Huge Games in January of last year. The studio most recently released Catan (XBLA) and collaborated with the now-closed Ensemble Studios on the Age of Empires III expansion Asian Dynasties.
Big Huge was reportedly working on two unannounced projects: an RPG scheduled for a 2009 release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, as well as a separate Wii title.
THQ also noted that Heavy Iron Studios (Up, WALL-E) and Incinerator Studios (Nicktoons: Globs of Doom, Cars) have been spun off into independent companies.
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RoN + Vista support -> Steam = BHG staff still have jobs.
Get on it lads.
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Steam Punk Spider thingy for the win!
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it's also one of my absolute favorites. Such a great fucking game. Rise of legends sucked poop though :(
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RoN came out in 2003 and they've failed to build on it in the slightest. RoLegends, although fun, was actually a step back with smaller maps, not allowing you to build cities anywhere you wanted, etc. Why did it take them 3 years to do that?
3 years after RoL they've done nothing but a 360 indie game and an AoE expansion.
6 years wasted. Good riddance.
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RoN and RoL were some of the best rts's ever.
Like Civilization, but playable in one sitting.
The dynamic borders, the large scale battles, the epic timeframe, from clubs to musket warfare to the awesome final part of the game where you had nukes, cruise missiles and AI for instant unit production.
And the supply wagons to counteract attrition in the enemy territory... and the generals that could create decoys to make your army look bigger to the enemy... And the really cool and useful world wonders... Such a fantastic game with so many great ideas!
I'd been quietly hoping for a Rise of Nations 2 for a long time :'(
Please at least put RoN on steam, so that I can easily download it without having to find my disc, the CD key and dig around the internet for patches...
This is very sad. I thought the video games industry was supposed to be RECESSION PROOF >:(
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I bought everything they made (except for the AoE 3 expansion). This is terrible news
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