Kaos Studios

Kaos Studios headlines

• Kaos basically forced to use North Korea as antagonist in Homefront, says former employee

  Former members of Kaos Studios have opened up to Gamasutra regarding what went wrong at the studio, and the reasons behind the closure of the Homefront studio.

• Saturday Shorts: Castle Crashers, Warlock, Bit.Trip Saga, Homefront, StarCraft 2

  There’s a large batch of shorts for you below the break. Some of it PAX Prime related, some of it not. Read it anyway. Don’t make me have to punish you.

• Homefront PC half price, demo out now

  THQ has released a PC demo for Homefront, and knocked 50 percent off the price this weekend.

• Ex-Kaos staffers gravitating to Avalanche

  Kaos staff left jobless by THQ’s closure of the New York studio may find a new home with Just cause developer Avalanche.

• THQ has "some really interesting announcements in the future" for Homefront

  THQ’s Danny Bilson has said despite the closure of Kaos Studios, the firm is planning on releasing more Homefront titles in the future.

• Multiplayer Homefront demo re-confirmed by THQ, "multiple drops" of DLC inbound

  THQ re-confirmed last night it’ll launch a multiplayer demo of Homefront, as well as announcing that “multiple” DLC packs would be released within the next six months.

• Homefront is "not a 71" because you can't "apply math to art," says Bilson

  THQ’s Danny Bilson has said that Homefront deserved a higher Metacritic score than 71, and he is of the opinion that you cannot “apply math to art.”

• THQ has plans to differentiate Homefront from other shooters in the future

  THQ’s Danny Bilson has said the firm has plans to make sure Homefront differentiate itself from other games in the shooting genre with future releases.

• Homefront update goes live on 360, fixes freezing

  Kaos has released a title update for Homefront on 360, confirming it has now fixed profile freezing issues.

• THQ confirms staff redundancies at Kaos, Volition

  THQ has confirmed it has laid-off 30 employees across Kaos Studios and Volition Studios.

• Homefront PC to sport new anti-cheating features this week

  Kaos Studios will patch the PC version of Homefront this week to assist in the battle against cheaters, hackers and griefers.

• Homefront Aussie servers to be doubled

  THQ has provided on update on Australia’s troubled Homefront servers, promising fixes, apologising for a recent outage, and plotting to double server capacity.

• Homefront GM: “There are things we'd like to do better”

  With Kaos’s Homefront finally releasing in Europe today, Keza MacDonald speaks to studio GM David Votypka on what is, what could have been, and what comes next.

• Homefront multiplayer patches inbound

  Kaos has released a PlayStation 3 patch for Homefront today, with Xbox 360 and PC versions on the cards.

• Analyst stands by 1.5 million Homefront sales prediction

  Lizard Capital’s Colin Sebastian has stood firm by his prediction that Homefront will shift 1.5 million units by the end of the month.

• Homefront sells 375,000 on day one in North America

  THQ has announced that Homefront sold approximately 375,000 units in North America during its first day of availability.

• Fighting the Homefront - THQ's biggest gamble to date

  Amid review score controversy, Brenna Hillier takes a look at the history and future of Homefront, THQ’s big bet on the triple-A shooter bracket.

• Homefront server demand "outstripped expectations", analyst predicts "decent" sales

  THQ has struggled to meet launch day demand on Homefront servers, while analysts dismiss the game’s review score spread and predict “decent” sales.

• Homefront reviews go live - get the full round-up here

  Despite there being apparent confusion over an embargo for Homefront reviews to go live, scores are now beginning to appear from bigger outlets. Get the lot below.