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THQ sells off budget PC game publisher ValuSoft
THQ has sold off ValuSoft, its budget PC game publisher, to fellow budget PC game company Cosmi. The newly combined entity, Cosmi reports, will be the second largest US retail publisher of PC games in terms of units sold, and the top retail publisher in the "value software category.""With the transition of the 'Value' PC business to Cosmi, our internal resources are now focused on our core video game portfolio where we can drive the highest quality performance and execution for our games," said THQ CEO Brian Farrell in the announcement. Though the sale price was not revealed, we can at least be confident that THQ has some internal resources to focus for a while, thanks to the Cosmi money.
THQ places Amnesia: The Dark Descent in a retail box
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a frightening game. A pants-wettingly frightening game. One of the few nice things about Frictional Games' heretofore downloadable title is that you can at least pretend that it ceases to exist once the computer is turned off. Apparently not satisfied by this state of affairs, THQ's ValuSoft division will be bringing a box-copy version of the game to retail on February 22 for the decidedly not scary price of $20. The box itself isn't very frightening at all, almost to the point of being amusing. We can only assume this is to lull new players into a false sense of security before installing the game.
