Darksiders

Six years on from Darksiders 3 (and five from great but overlooked spin-off Darksiders Genesis ), I'll admit I'd started to think THQ Nordic had given up on the series. Not so, apparently—a new teaser tells us we should be "prepared to ride again"... Read more…

The Double-A Team is a feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more. You can catch up with all of our Double-A Team pieces in our handy, spangly archive. These door monsters are som…

Darksiders 3 was a very okay game and maybe more importantly, it was a financial success: Not a runaway hit, but an expectations-meeter , which was enough to ensure more Darksiders games in the future. The first of them will be revealed on June 13 at E3 during…

Since the announcement of Darksiders 3 yesterday, there's been more chatter about the series than ever before. Darksiders and its sequel are pretty decent overall, if the pitch of "heavy metal Zelda" sounds even vaguely appealing to you. And if …

Update: And just like that, it's official. THQ Nordic has now unleashed the Darksiders 3 reveal trailer, confirming that the game will be played as Fury, the sister of the Four Horsemen, who's being sent off to deal with the escaped Seven Deadly Sins…

The Darksiders Warmastered Edition is out, and that happy news brings with it a brace of trailers and a nice surprise: Owners of the original Darksiders on Steam or GOG will automatically be upgraded to the remastered version. The price isn't quite so goo…

The Darksiders Warmastered Edition, with improvements including better rendering, enhanced textures, and 4K resolution, was announced in June and scheduled for release in October. Which is now. Alas, publisher THQ Nordic said today that it's going to need a li…

In 2013, former publisher THQ closed its doors after several months of financial turbulence. While rivals Deep Silver and Sega jumped on the likes of Saints Row and Relic Entertainment thereafter, Nordic Games an otherwise unheard of studio at the time claimed…

After acquiring the Darksiders franchise following THQ s collapse in 2013, Nordic Games released a remastered version of its second series entry last year. The rather awkwardly titled Deathfinitive Edition was just the start we were told back then , and now an…

GOG has added some Saints Row, some Darksiders, and a Metro game to its lineup, all of them completely without the hassles and headaches we know (and really don't love) as digital rights management. And to mark the moment, it's got them all on sale, too. First…

The Humble Nordic Bundle first appeared over a year ago, but  re-emerges this week to let you pay what you want for great games like Supreme Commander and Titan Quest and Darksiders, and strange games that might be fun for a few hours if you need to …

Nordic Games has picked up most of THQ's remaining IPs. The bankrupt publisher sold its biggest names at an auction earlier this year. Its remaining assets were bundled up , with Nordic Games the big winner. For $4.9 million, the company has acquired Darksider…

When THQ collapsed , it could not find a proper home for the Darksiders franchise and its developer, Vigil Games. After the studio closed, many of its former members found a new home in Crytek USA . David Adams, now-CEO of Crytek USA, says that his company now…

After the big auction for its top-shelf intellectual property and game studios last month , the bones of former publishing giant THQ have announced that the company's remaining franchises are now to be sold as part of a "court-approved sales process." The seri…

Surprisingly, blood suckers aren't as common in video games as you might expect. They might appear as a generic type of enemy, and of course there are a few of them in the Castlevania series. We collected some of these vampires, paying attention to leave out t…

Yesterday we finally got word of where THQ's franchises were going, as the company's intellectual properties were sold off piece-meal to various publishers. One notable exception, however, was Vigil Games and the Darksiders franchise, which went unclaimed. The…

One of the sad and somewhat odd outcomes of today's big auction of top games and studios from game publisher THQ is that no one —not EA, not Activision, not Take Two, not Bethesda, not Ubisoft... no one—made a bid for the action-game series Darksid…

News has broken out about the sale of THQ's assets and it looks like many of the defunct publisher's signature franchises have been acquired . But, surprisingly, some seemingly bankable properties haven't been snatched up. Many of the titles mentioned in a pre…

THQ, the troubled publisher of Saints Row, WWE games, Company of Heroes , Metro: Last Light , the new South Park role-playing game, Red Faction and more, may still be sold in its entirety to an investment group called Clearlake as part of a bankruptcy sale, ac…