THQ Inc.

1989:

• Company originally founded as Trinity Acquisition Corporation.

1994:

• The company enters the market of video games.

Apr, 1998:

• The company acquires GameFX Technology.

1999:

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

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.

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.