THQ Nordic has announced an upcoming digital showcase that'll feature no less than six new game announcements.
The showcase arrives in celebration of the company's tenth anniversary and will air on 17th September at 12pm PST / 8pm BST/ 9pm CEST. The seemingly inescapable Geoff Keighley will be there to host the event, because of course, and THQ teases that the show will "take you on a journey through time and space." Hmm.
Here's what THQ Nordic has to say:
"Witness the return of legendary franchises, including some for which fans have been waiting decades to get their hands on a new installment, and you can also expect to see sequels to beloved games. We hope you are ready, kids!"
In addition to those six new announcements, THQ also plans to share new information for ELEX II and Expeditions: Rome, although neither of those titles have been announced for Switch. Indeed, it's not yet known how many – if any – of the six new reveals will be coming to Nintendo's platform, so we'll have to stay tuned.
Will you be watching the show? It'll air on YouTube and Twitch at the times mentioned above.
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No! I won't be watching. You guys do and report if anything's coming to NS.
Are they the ones with time splitters?!
@AG_Awesome In 2018 they did. I assume they still do. In 2019 it was reported that they did have plans for Time Splitters...so...maybe?!
I think that SpongeBob art is new, right? From the alien vibe I wonder if it's some sort of Invader Zim crossover, or even a revived version of the third SpongeBob movie's scrapped alien cat plot?
Great time to be a fan of Nick games!
@earthinheritor @AG_Awesome Yes and no. THQ are owned by the same parent group (which was THQ formerly) as Deep Silver, who now own the IP, and who refounded Free Radical Design back in May this year.
So I doubt there's much to announce there unless it's a remaster/collection.
TIMESPLITTERS!!!!!!
Geoff Keighley is the Ryan Seacrest of gaming.
TIMESPLITTERS!!!!!!!!
Just please, PLEASE don't screw it up by messing with its formula too much. By that I mean Bots and local multiplayer...preferably with an emphasis on that frenetic gameplay speed over Jump buttons or other mechanical additions that can stay in Halo. Let's see what the Map Maker can do on modern hardware!
Hoping for a new spongebob game
@Richnj I’m 100% on board with a remastered trilogy if they decide to give us that.
Maybe the final Darksiders game? Or a new SupCom?
@AG_Awesome I'd prefer a Remastered collection first honestly.
I want these for Switch:
Timesplitters (New or remastered collection)
Remnant From the Ashes
Biomutant
Bring it!
@moodycat I expect the final character to hold a gun.
@Richnj Digging into it more gets even more interesting. THQ Nordic and Deep Silver worked together to re-form Free Radical Studio and according to a report from THQ and Deep Silver they announced they do have plans for the future and are working on something new in the franchise.
So yes the parent company, Koch Media but internally they started Free Radical again.
So while an HD collection is likely they revived the entire studio just to build a new Time Splitters. The store was on Polygon as of May 2021 with quotes from the dev team and company.
Official Tweet:
https://twitter.com/deepsilver/status/1395238772938264577?s=20
It seems that Deep Silver will actually own Free Radical. And its been formed with some of the old team.
So i doubt they will show a new game already but its definitely in production now. They said they already have amazing plans for Timesplitters and everything is in motion to reboot the franchise.
New Timesplitters, be it remaster or sequel, will for sure be shown. They confirmed not long ago in an official statement that they were working on a new Timesplitters.
The ‘hope you are ready, kids’ is definitely a Spongebob reference (‘are ya ready, kids’), so considering they released Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, I’m guessing there’s a sequel of sorts to that coming or a remake of another old Spongebob, maybe the movie game.
My last takeaway is that there will most certainly be a timely video game tie in of The Mighty Boosh, as evidenced by the reference to the shows intro quote
Geoff is everywhere, he's in the game awards, he's in gamescom, he's in summer game fest, he's in the muppets, he's in this stream, he's in your house
Timesplitters (both a new entry and an HD port of Future Perfect have been rumored), and we know about the Gothic remaster. Personally, I'm hoping for a current-gen port for Sacred 2, and perhaps a Switch port for Dead Island.
Do they have the ability to make a new wrestling game with the gameplay of the old THQ N64 games. Probably not realistic, but it's been a long time since I've like a wrestling game and RetroMania just wasn't what I was hoping for.
Timesplitters would be amazing. I'd be happy with remaster of TimeSplitters 2
@MajorasLapdog Was going to comment the same thing about the SpongeBob reference. This has me excited.
Geoff again?…. Why….
Time and space!? Timesplitters and Freespace confirmed!
More excited for this than most of the stuff at E3 this year...
@Ninja84
Yeah, pretty much TIMESPLITTERS and BIOMUTANT on Switch.
@Magician
That would be crazy of we got DEAD ISLAND and DYING LIGHT both on Switch this year.
Darksiders 4 please
Barbie games, Cheerleader games, please. 😆
@Freddyfred I expect a new game probably based on Kamp Koral.
Geoff keighley-hawes himself out to Hollywood, so I've stopped paying attention to him. The gamescom show was a shambles, and I still remember
Toy HeadQuarters ***** games.
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