According t' the LinkedIn resume a one Mr. Scott Rogers, "Creative Manager for THQ's CORE games, CORE Digital Games Group 'n Kids 'n Family Groups," the downloadable Saint's Row spinoff, Saint's Row Drive-By, has been cancelled. The project be first obtusely revealed when THQ Core Games chief Danny Bilson said the 3DS-bound Saint's Row title be already being made for Xbox Live.

Later Bilson said, "We actually changed the design 'n be doing something more unique. This be just creative but we wound up feeling the game we be building be too much like a section a Saint's Row that ye could play in Saint's Row." we be not so sure that canceling a game be the best way t' make it more unique - that be old territory.

At GDC 2010, Bilson first revealed t' Joystiq that THQ would develop downloadable games from it be stable a "Core" brands, including Red Faction 'n Saint's Row. In advance a Red Faction: Armageddon's early June launch, THQ released the underwhelming Red Faction: Battlegrounds on XBLA 'n PSN. Following a string a negative reviews - including our own 2/5 - a THQ rep called the reception a "disappointment." If Saint's Row Drive-By be shaping up t' be cut from the same cloth, a cancellation may have been a wise move.

We've reached out t' THQ for an official comment on the status a Drive-By 'n Saint's Row 3DS.