THQ has announced something pretty cool today, and I’m not talking about their promise not to release anymore mediocre titles.  I’m talking about uDraw Studio. This game comes with a drawling tablet, and that’s almost if not as cool as the Mario Paint mouse back on the Super Nintendo.

This $70 add-on accessory uses the WiiMote to power itself and is approximately 9 inches wide and 7 inches long. It will allow you to draw and sketch objects as well as play games similar to “Pictionary”; which is said to be released as an add on title at around $30. The tablet will come packaged with an art-based game, “uDraw Studio,” when it goes on sale sometime around the holiday season.

Any Infendo artists interested in this little number?

If the sticky, color-spewing de Blob were to splatter paint upon the THQ offices, he would color them green.

A pale, cash-like shade, that is.

CEO Brian Farrell said Tuesday his company’s colorful Wii platformer has sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide to date.

The game’s success has enabled THQ to keep de Blob at its original price point. After five months at retail, de Blob still sells for $49.99.

“We can make money on games like that,” said Farrell.

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One of the games I was most pleased to see under the tree this past Christmas was de Blob. It’s a great game all-around, it’s third party, and apparently it did very well–even better than Nintendo’s Wario Land: Touch Shake It!, which released on the same day.

The game did so well, in fact, that THQ all but confirmed a sequel will be coming our way.

A sign of things to come from third parties on the Wii? We’ll see, but it’s a solid start.

According to IGN’s Matt Casamassina apparently THQ’s new and exciting Wii game Deadly Creatures is going to be delayed til sometime in February 2009.

This marks the second delay for the game, originally set for an October 31 ship date and then repositioned for a mid-December release.

Deadly Creatures was set to be a December release that was going to give us that extreme bug fighting game that was sure to be an unappreciated gem. From what we know already, Deadly Creatures has you playing as a scorpion and a tarantula, battling against other arachnids and insects. It’s promisingly dark story continues to unearth a deadly plot involving man. The game is said to push the Wii’s capabilities visually. The voice cast will include Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Hopper, whose characters are looking for something buried in the desert.

Deadly Creature Delay

THQ has proposed an interesting new games development theory; quality is equal parts gameplay, graphics and Billy Bob Thornton.

The publisher released today a new trailer on IGN for Deadly Creatures revealing actors Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Hopper as two of the game’s primary voice actors.

The grisly new trailer showcases Thornton as he warns, “Greed can poison a man’s soul, turn him into something he ain’t, turn him into something deadly.” Two men are then shown digging in the desert, voiced by Thornton and Hopper.

An original action-thriller starring violent insects in a desolate world, Deadly Creatures is scheduled to release Dec. 22 exclusively for Wii.