[UFC 2009 and Red Faction: Guerrilla bolster THQ profits]

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Dropping knowledge about its Q2 earnings for this year (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/28/thq-earnings-show-profits-up-thanks-ufc-and-red-faction-guerr/), THQ has revealed that UFC 2009 Undisputed (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/ufc-2009-undisputed/) and Red Faction: Guerrilla (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/red-faction-guerrilla/) have both become multi-million dollar franchises for the publisher. With these two, along with a game based on the recent Pixar film Up (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Up/), THQ enjoyed three of the top ten best-sellers for the month of June.

UFC 2009 Undisputed wrestled the competition to the ground throughout May and June (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/11/may-npd-ufc-on-top-while-ds-ps2-take-a-beating/), shipping a combined 2.9 million units worldwide. Red Faction: Guerrilla also fared well, shipping a combined one million units across the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms. Not only did THQ (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/THQ/) dominate the US in June, but the publisher enjoyed the top spot in the UK June charts with everyone's favorite testicle-punching simulator (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/15/), UFC 2009.http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)UFC 2009 and Red Faction: Guerrilla bolster THQ profits (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/28/ufc-2009-and-red-faction-guerrilla-bolster-thq-profits/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).



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