Tag: Homefront

As a small child, Danny Bilson played with rubber prop guns on the set of “Hogan’s Heroes” and “The Andy Griffith Show” while his father directed episodes. Forty-five years later, Bilson is still playing games in Hollywood, but now hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. As executive vice president of core games at THQ Inc., the 54-year-old former screenwriter is overseeing a business upon which the Agoura Hills video game publisher has staked its future. Once known for lightweight game adaptations of movies and TV shows such as “Cars” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” and World Wrestling Entertainment smackdowns, THQ is responding to market trends and a flagging stock price by transforming itself into a publisher of big-budget action titles. On Tuesday, it releases Homefront, an ambitious action game about America under North Korean occupation that’s the first original project ...