THQ has confirmed that it has seven titles, including six unannounced titles, scheduled for 2014, in spite of persistent rumours the publisher is foundering.

According to its latest quarterly financial report, released yesterday, Warhammer 40,000 Dark Millennium Online is scheduled for launch in “fiscal 2014 and beyond.” Also scheduled is its collaboration with director Guillermo Del Toro, Homefront 2, a shooter from Turtle Rock, a game led by Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets, and four more unannounced core titles.

On the back of uDraw’s poor performance, THQ posted a loss of US $55.9 million this quarter, compared to $14.9 million this time last year.

 

Ubisoft has revealed plans to shift the hosting of many online services from a third-party data centre to a new facility.

Beginning February 7, the online components of Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Conviction and The Settlers on the Macintosh platform will be temporarily unavailable. Likewise, H.A.W.X. 2, Might & Magic: Heroes VI, and The Settlers 7 on PC will be similarly disrupted. Offline play is not affected.

In addition, all Ubisoft websites will be impacted with the exception of the Ubisoft official forums and Ubisoft Consumer Service facilities.

 

It’s hard to know exactly who the intended audience of doublesix’s latest twin-stick light-RPG shooter All Zombies Must Die! is supposed to be.

On one hand, a decent amount of admittedly cartoonish blood and an M rating suggest teenagers ought to be the ones wielding the controller. However, cutesy animation, simple, repetitive play and the weakest attempt at dialogue and story this side of a Barney episode should see most teenagers re-gifting this one to younger siblings faster than they can say “Super-dee-duper!”

Not that Zombies is really terrible enough to warrant being mentioned in the same paragraph as that annoying purple twit. There are plenty of zombies to re-kill – enough that staying put for too long will see them construct a deadly wall of groaning, grabby flesh around the player – and the dispatching of said zombies is fleetingly satisfying. Unfortunately, everything the game does adequately has been done elsewhere, and Zombies suffers terribly by comparison.

 

The Kinect for Windows commercial license and purchasable hardware is now available, according to Microsoft.

The Kinect sensors and accessories can be purchased directly online, and feature a one-year warranty and access to ongoing software updates.

The Kinect for Windows sensor offers speech and audio capabilities with the latest Microsoft Speech components, the ability to support up to four Kinect devices on a single PC, "near mode" which sees objects as close as 400 millimetres in front of the sensor, and improved skeletal tracking.