Guess who’ll be riding shotgun, in the upcoming DLC for Saints Row 2?  Yup, Adult Film Star Tera Patrick will be accompanying you on missions sitting passenger.  And she wont be a dumb bimbo in the game either, she’s actually a microbiologist in the game. Saints Row 2: Ultor Exposed, the DLC features three new missions, new vehicles, multiplayer maps and of course, Tera Patrick. Developer James Torbit explains, “As a homie, you can call Tera up and she’ll ride shotgun in any of the Saints Row 2 gameplay, and that’s part of the fun.”

So come April 16th, be sure to pick up this chick and ride her wherever you want. I tried cleaing up the last sentence. (You should have see the original draft :p)

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News broke yesterday, that nearly all the Quality Assurance (QA) in Champaign, Illinois were being laid off. All laid off employees (both full-time and temporary) have been given at least sixty days’ notice and THQ says they will do what they can to assist them in finding work in the community or elsewhere in THQ.
PerezStart spoke to one of the ‘former employees’ of Volition on what exactly went on, and how was it communicated to the staff. The message is below:
We knew it was bad when the VP of Volition spoke first at the meeting. Yesterday we had gotten calendar invites in Outlook to a QA Town Hall. We usually have town halls to discuss the status of current projects, for new projects to be announced, and for the management team to field questions from the testers. If this was a normal meeting, there would have been no reason for the VP to be there.
“I’m here today to speak on behalf of corporate THQ HR, who can’t be here today.” He could have stopped there.
Over the past six months, THQ has been shedding studios left and right. Six studios were cut last October and another two were closed in the past few weeks. Fewer studios means less titles. Less titles means the company needs less QA. From a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense.
Except that it doesn’t.
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