THQ Inc.

1989:

• Company originally founded as Trinity Acquisition Corporation.

1991:

• Trinity Acquisition Corporation merges with Toy Head-Quarters to form T*HQ, later renamed as THQ.

1994:

• The company enters the market of video games.

Apr, 1998:

• The company acquires GameFX Technology.

1999:

• Company buys out Funsoft
• THQ France is established in Paris.

2000:

• The company acquires game development studio Volition, along with the matchmaking service PXO.

Nov 07, 2001:

• The company acquires Rainbow Studios.

Apr 04, 2002:

• The company acquires development studio Outrage Entertainment and renames it Outrage Games.

Jan, 2003:

• The company founds THQ Studio Australia as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Apr 29, 2004:

• THQ acquires Relic Entertainment

Oct 19, 2004:

• World Wrestling Entertainment files suit against the WWE license holders THQ (games) and JAKKS Pacific (toys) for obtaining the license, which lasts until 2009, through a commercial bribery scheme.

Nov 18, 2004:

• The company acquires developer Blue Tongue.

Feb 01, 2005:

• Alex Garden, Relic Entertainment's founder and Director of Product Development after the acquisition by THQ, leaves the publisher to work on other unnamed projects.

Feb 03, 2006:

• The company announces the opening of the new development entity Kaos Studios, founded by veterans of Trauma Studios.

Feb 27, 2006:

• The company announces to open a sales and marketing office in Copenhagen, Denmark, in order to cover all of Scandinavia.

Mar 03, 2006:

• The company acquires Juice Games Ltd.

Mar 17, 2006:

• The company acquires Vigil Games.

Jul 25, 2006:

• The company acquires Paradigm Entertainment Inc.

Feb, 2007:

• The company acquires Mass Media, Inc.

May, 2007:

• The company acquires the Finland-based mobile development studio Universomo Ltd. and makes it a part of the THQ Wireless Inc. division.

Jan 14, 2008:

• The company acquires developer Big Huge Games.

Apr 01, 2008:

• The company announces the acquisition of casual games publisher Elephant Entertainment, LLC.

Aug 07, 2008:

• The company announces to open a new headquarters in Shanghai, China.

Nov, 2008:

• The company closes five development studios: Helixe, Sandblast Games, Locomotive Games, Mass Media and Paradigm Entertainment.

Aug 10, 2009:

• It is reported the company has acquired the development studio Midway Studios - San Diego.

Dec 04, 2009:

• The company announces to open a new division in Montreal, responsible for product development, R&D, art and content development, as well as QA and localisation.

Feb 04, 2010:

• The company announces to rebrand two of its studios, Juice Games and Rainbow Studios, to THQ Digital Studios Warrington and THQ Digital Studios Phoenix respectively, at the cost of 60 jobs.