Much like the Red Faction franchise, THQ has decided not to pursue the MX vs. ATV franchise any longer. This announcement came from THQ today as it outlined its future plans. The latest game in the franchise, MX vs. ATV Alive, was the subject of THQ’s experiment of releasing a low priced game at retail that was to be supplemented with downloadable content.

During Microsoft’s E3 2009-launching press conference, IEB VP Don, Mattrick started the Project Natal presentation quite simply: “People ask me, can we add a motion controller. I tell them of course we can. Can we make you the controller? We can.”

Dropping wires and even the need for an object to hold, Microsoft’s Project Natal utilizes what appears to be a special video camera (with microphone) that works in cooperation with motion sensing and video technology. Movements are then reflected within the Xbox 360 environment including games.

The primary means of travel in World of Warcraft is running. You run pretty much everywhere, and some fans became curious as to what it would be like to physically experience that same amount of running in real life. The result was Aaron and Elijah’s RL Race Across Azeroth.

These guys even worked out the how the running in WoW would correspond to running in the real world. They built a treadmill which would work with WoW, set it up so they would run at six mph and prepared to run from the gates of Shadowglen to the sentries of Darnassus. They also dressed up like their characters – for scientific purposes of course.

Click through to watch Elijah and Aaron’s Treadmill Race Across Azeroth video…