THQ has been tightening its belt to ensure that its recent first quarterly profit in years won’t be a fluke: Projects like Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium Online have been repurposed into safer genres, while some others like Devil’s Third have been scrapped entirely and returned to their owners. As of yesterday, the Insane trilogy – originally slated for release sometime in 2014 and headed by prominent filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro – has joined the latter in cancellation.

Since its announcement in December 2010 there’s been no real news of Insane‘s progress, but considering THQ President Jason Rubin’s assurance of the game’s continued development at E3 in June the cancellation still comes as a bit of a surprise. In addition to dropping Insane, THQ announced that it would not produce any additional casual Facebook or mobile games in favor of focusing on the core gaming market… so we hope you liked WrestleFest HD just as it was, because you’re not going to be seeing a sequel.