We reported back in July that THQ has big post-release plans for their next installment of open-wold urban mayhem, amounting to "nearly a year" of DLC. CEO Brian Farrell recently reaffirmed the plan, though with a bit more specificity. At the recent Cloud Gaming USA conference, Farrell noted that Saints Row: The Third already has somewhere in the neighborhood of forty weeks worth of downloadable content planned.

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Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features a new trailer and screenshots for DC Universe Online, new race portraits for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, new screenshots for Planetside 2, a new trailer for Trine 2, a gameplay trailer for Saints Row: The Third, Gamescom 2011 trailers for World of Tanks, World of Battleships, and World of Warplanes, a customization trailer for Need for Speed: World, a gameplay modes trailer for Anarchy Reigns, a trailer for Raving Rabbids: Alive and Kicking, and a new gameplay trailer for End of Nations.

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Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features a blockbuster developer diary for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, a Gamescom 2011 trailer for Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, a 2011 Comic-con extended gameplay trailer for Saints Row: The Third, a developer diary for The Secret World, a character unveil trailer for Anarchy Reigns, a launch trailer for Galaga Legions DX, an update trailer for Project Blackout, and a teaser trailer for Sniper Elite V2.

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During an investor relations call, THQ chief executive Brian Farrell stated that the publisher is looking to increase post-launch revenues for its core titles by 20 percent.

Part of the plan, Farrell said, is to plan an aggressive campaign for post-launch content for its core titles. The first title slated to follow THQ's new digital direction is Saint's Row: The Third. "The idea is to really drive the key titles," Farrell noted.

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Today's Filter includes a video for Phinease and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension , a video for Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, an announcement trailer for The Penguins of Madagascar: Dr. Blowhole Returns Again!, an announcement trailer for Monster High: Ghoul Spirit, a rather skimpy video for Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, a teaser trailer for Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, a downloadable content video for Mortal Kombat, a Comic-Con cinematic for Star Wars: The Old Republic, new footage from Saints Row: The Third, gameplay footage from Cute Things Dying Violently, a cinematic trailer for Prototype 2, a Call of Duty Elite walkthrough, and a Rage developer's diary.

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Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter includes a new "behind-the-scenes" video for Duke Nukem Forever, the Saints Row: The Third pre-order content trailer, a Just Dance 2 trailer featuring Katy Perry, a multiplayer trailer for Call of Juarez: The Cartel, gameplay footage of Stronghold 3, a "launch" trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, gameplay for Pirates of Black Cove, video for "Episode One" of and Black Prophecy.

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THQ and Volition's upcoming open-world game, Saints Row: The Third, is going to have a lot of downloadable content. So much so that THQ is offering a DLC "Season Pass," not unlike Mortal Kombat and LA Noire. The Season Pass will give access to three additional downloadable mission packs and is valued at "more than $20." Right now, the only way to get access to the Pass is by pre-ordering the game on THQ's online store. The first 3,000 purchases will get a voucher for free.

While it is a tempting offer, note that one-day shipping from THQ's store to the U.S. costs $23.90--more than the cost of the Season Pass. Read more »

Saints Row 3 -- excuse me, Saints Row: The Third -- will let you toy with its character creator before the game hits this holiday season. Publisher THQ and developer Volition announced the Saints Row Initiation Station, to be released on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

With the Initiation Station, you can create your best fashion disaster and share it with friends. Plus, you can download other peoples' characters and tweak them, or collaborate on a co-op set. THQ was about as vague as vague can be on a release window for the Initiation Station, so just expect it sometime before Saints Row hits. Read more »

Though we've known for years that Volition, Inc. is working on a third Saints Row, it's only now been formally announced by publisher THQ. Saints Row: The Third, as it's called, is headed to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this holiday season.

"Saints Row: The Third puts you on top of the world, right at the beginning of the game, with all the perks that go along with being the head of an elite criminal organization," THQ core games executive VP Danny Bilson said in the announcement. "There's no delivering pizza, no shuttling family members about in a long series of taxi missions. Instead, you take all the power of the Third Street Saints and you take the world by storm." Read more »

Sorry revolutionists, you're going to have to wait a little longer until you can escape underground and decimate its thriving civilization.

In an investor release, THQ revealed Red Faction: Armageddon has been pushed to May 2011. Originally the shooter was scheduled to arrive in March 2011. No specifics for the delay were mentioned; however, we suspect it has something to do with THQ core game VP Danny Bilson's "ship when things are ready" policy. Read more »

Much like Red Faction is getting an Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network game prior to the release of the next major entry in the series, Saints Row 3 will get the same treatment with an XBLA game, Saints Row: Drive By. Turns out, this is the same Saint's Row game announced for Nintendo's new 3DS handheld.

"The interesting thing about the [3DS] game is we were already making it," explains THQ vice president of core games Danny Bilson in an interview with IndustryGamers. "We were already making it as our Xbox Live game and in 3D also. It's designed for 3D already. So the 3DS version is an incremental cost. It's not a big startup cost." Read more »

Publisher THQ has provided an updated glimpse of its release schedule across the next two years, revealing new release dates for some previously announced sequels.

In particular, the latest Red Faction and Saints Row have swapped released windows--destruction-centric shooter Red Faction 4 is now due before April 2011, while the open-world gangbuster Saints Row 3 is due to arrive before April 2012. Read more »

Publisher THQ has dropped releases dates for its major games across the next two years, including Saints Row 3, another Red Faction game, an action game from Dawn of War 2 dev Relic, and its Warhammer 40,000 MMO.

The slide from an investors presentation noticed by GameSpot shows an as-yet-untitled action game, from Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War developers Relic, scheduled for THQ's fiscal year 2011, which begins April 1, 2010. Read more »

Volition's Saints Row series of over-the-top, open-world action gaming will get a third entry, and it will take what associate producer Dan Sutton called "a new direction."

"We've already started work on Saints Row 3, and ... we wrap up a lot in this one," said Sutton to Play in response to a question about the endings about the first two Saints Row games. Read more »