I actually applaud THQ for this (even companies like the once great Rare use to do a lot of licensed crap before they relied on their own IPs), though I do wonder if they've dissolved any recently renewed partnerships they've had with their various licensees (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/18/thq-soaks-up-multi-year-spongebob-rights-includes-3ds-game/).

I actually really liked a couple of THQ's licensed games, but with different developers taking over the licensed franchises all the time, their licensed games' quality varied greatly and wasn't consistent. I haven't seen a good licensed game come from THQ in some time.


I guess all of the licenses THQ had the rights to will all have to find different publishers and developers, so if anyone is actually interested in the various licenses THQ had the rights to and what happens to them then this news could be interesting.