Whether he could have turned the gored company around with more time will never be known: as it was, THQ, staggering from some big misses and with a pipeline characterized by at best solidity rather than blockbuster potential, effectively ceased to exist in January of this year, its intellectual property assets and studios largely bought up by its rivals.

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