Red Faction®: Guerrilla™ Multiplayer Demo Now Available on Xbox LIVE® and PlayStation®Network

THQ and Volition, Inc. Prepare Gamers for June 2nd Launch of Red Faction: Guerrilla with Explosive Multiplayer Demo

THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) and Volition, Inc. today announced the multiplayer demo for Red Faction®: Guerrilla™ is now available for free download on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®Network for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. Developed by THQ internal studio Volition, Inc., Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world shooter featuring real physics-based destruction, a story-driven single-player campaign and robust multiplayer options. The multiplayer demo features ten-player Damage Control, an explosive new mode that utilizes Volition’s advanced GeoMod™ 2.0 Destruction Engine, to add a new twist to traditional capture-and-hold, point-based gameplay. The demo comes less than two weeks before the anticipated June 2nd launch of Red Faction: Guerrilla on Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3.

“The multiplayer demo is just a sneak peak at how Volition is bringing real innovation to multiplayer gameplay with its GeoMod 2.0 destruction engine,” said Kevin Kraff, vice president of worldwide marketing, THQ. “The Red Faction: Guerrilla single-player demo received over one million downloads on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network1, continuing the tremendous hype for the June 2nd retail launch.”

Press from around the world recently experienced Red Faction: Guerrilla’s multiplayer and had this to say:

“RFG multiplayer is popcorn action with an explosive crunch”
Gamepro

“This summer’s multiplayer fling”
X-play on G4 TV

“Wrecking Crew looks like it could be perfect local multiplayer fodder”
GameSpot

About Red Faction: Guerrilla Multiplayer Demo

The Red Faction: Guerrilla multi-player demo features Damage Control, a capture-and-hold point-based mode, that utilizes the GeoMod 2.0 Destruction Engine to offer an exciting new twist to a traditional gameplay mode. Gamers are split into two teams as they battle over three targets on the map. To capture an enemy point, a team must destroy the target by any means necessary and rebuild it with the Reconstructor device. The team that controls the most targets will earn more points and win the game. The multiplayer demo features nine futuristic weapons, five backpacks, and is available now for free download on Xbox LIVE online entertainment network and PlayStation Network.

About Red Faction: Guerrilla

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world shooter set on Mars, 50 years after the events of the original Red Faction®. Players will take on the role of freedom fighter Alec Mason with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force. Throughout their fight for freedom, players will carve their own path, wreaking havoc across the vast, open-world environment of Mars, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos. Utilizing improvised weapons, explosives and re-purposed mining equipment and vehicles, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to tear through fully destructible environments in an unforgiving Martian landscape swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire. Red Faction: Guerrilla will also feature a robust multiplayer component, including several modes focused on destruction-based gameplay. Red Faction: Guerrilla is scheduled to ship to retailers worldwide on June 2nd, 2009.

About THQ

THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. The company develops its products for all popular game systems, personal computers and wireless devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, THQ sells product through its global network of offices located throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. More information about THQ and its products may be found at www.thq.com. THQ, Volition, Inc., Red Faction: Guerrilla, Geo-Mod and their respective logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc.

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The statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts may be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the business of THQ Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as “THQ”), including, but not limited to, expectations and projections related to the Red Faction: Guerrilla multiplayer demo and video game, and are based upon management’s current beliefs and certain assumptions made by management. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, business, competitive, economic, legal, political and technological factors affecting our industry, operations, markets, products or pricing. Readers should carefully review the risk factors and the information that could materially affect THQ’s financial results, described in other documents that THQ files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal period ended March 31, 2008, and particularly the discussion of risk factors set forth therein. Unless otherwise required by law, THQ disclaims any obligation to update its view on any such risks or uncertainties or to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release.

1 Microsoft Franchise Health – Report for Media Title: Red Faction®: Guerrilla™ Demo (5-4-2009); Sony Storefront Activity Report (5-4-2009)
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