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With two sets of developers working pretty much all the time, there’s a new Call of Duty every year. It makes sense for publisher Activision to do this; every year, the new Call of Duty ends up decimating the previous year’s sales tally. As the biggest property in the world’s biggest entertainment industry, there’s no denying that Call of Duty makes money - and of course there’s be ... [»]
Guitar Hero is essentially dead. People, for some reason,got really tired of plastic instrument-based music rhythm games and sales of the games and their associated peripherals dwindled down to pretty much nothing. Even the rather superb Rock Band 3 sold less than 5000 copies on all formats at launch. Maybe it’s because of all the instruments, because peripheral-free Dance and fitness Games have proven that people still want music based ... [»]
Business magazine Fast Company, citing inside expert advice, believes Rock Band and Dance Central developer Harmonix has pretty much been sitting on its ass since the Guitar Hero days - and in order to stay afloat in this stagnant, but cut-throat world of video games, they should make a shooter game.
The hell?The problem? Ask the short-form online piece of a possibly much more extensive magzine article; “The ... [»]
Guitar Hero, the previously popular and prosperous pursuit played with prodigal pretend plastic peripherals has perished. Many would say that it’s because Activision saturated the market with too many Guitar Hero games in too short a span. Activision’s CEO Bobby Kotick believes it's because his company failed to listen to its audience, and subsequently failed to innovate.Speaking to Forbes, Kotick explained the company’s complacency following the phenomenal success of Guitar Hero 3.
"We didn't really take the time that we usually take to ... [»]
Last year, we said goodbye to Guitar Hero, the rhythm game rock band simulator from Activision. The franchise, and indeed the genre itself had been run in the ground, thanks to oversaturation and the resulting general gamer indifference.Apparently it’s not dead, just resting – and though there are no titles in the series planned for the foreseeable future, it will be making a comeback.“Actually, just ... [»]
Oh boy. About two weeks ago with the announcement of We Dare, the gaming industry (everyone except for Gavin) began to question Ubisoft’s collective sanity. Now there is no doubt: the European publisher has lost its marbles.The music genre (Rock Band, DJ Hero, Band Hero, Guitar Hero etc) has pretty much ... [»]
Yesterday Activision killed the Guitar Hero franchise, just like over-hyped rock stars smash their guitars to pieces at live shows. Fans normally love it when they do that, and it seems that gamers are also revelling in Activision’s death blow to the over-milked franchise.Downloadable content for the Guitar Hero series has ... [»]
Rumours are coming in this morning that Activision has had enough of flogging Guitar Hero every second week and has decided to change it’s strategy.Unfortunately the new strategy is pretty much an full annihilation of the series and anything linked to it. According to the rumours the Guitar Hero series is ... [»]
But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be buying the developer, who’s recently been put up for sale by MTV owners Viacom. In an interview with Industry Gamers, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirschberg talked about making peace with their former partners and progenitors of Guitar Hero. “I ... [»]
Sometime in the 90’s Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose was abducted by evil aliens and replaced years later by a whiny,braid-headed, talentless, portly approximation - who shall henceforth be known as Fat Axl.Presumably because he needs the money to buy Christmas mince pies, Fat Axl is now suing Activision for the princely sum of $20 Million – ... [»]
Sony were the first in this generation to start cross platform gameplay between the PS3 and PSP however I don’t know of any games that allow simultaneous gameplay between the two so this may well be a first.In the upcoming Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock for the Wii and NDS you are going to be ... [»]
Just a quick post, the latest Guitar Hero set list has been announced and it's pretty lengthy.Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock will ship with 93 tracks which makes this the largest Guitar Hero set list to date. Check the full list below.Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock will include the titles first ever story mode, which may be worth a look and releases on the 28th of September for Xbox 360, PS3 and WiiA Perfect Circle - "The Outsider"
Aerosmith - "Cryin'"
AFI - "Dancing Through ... [»]
As a gamer raised on a diet of 8 and 16 bit games, their general aesthetic invokes an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. Things like this though – combining my love of modern games with the heady wistfulness of bygone eras – make me giddy.After the jump you’ll find a collection of videogame demakes created by Swedish artist Junkboy. – pieces of videogame art in which new games are made to look as if they’d been released many years previous. They’re ... [»]
Activision Blizzard announced today it’s hired Eric Hirshberg as the new Chief Executive Officer for Activision’s Publishing Department. He’ll report to Activision Blizzard COO Thomas Tippl, the right-hand man of Dark and Evil overlord Robert Kotick. Why is this notable? Eric Hirshberg, ... [»]
Sydney, AUSTRALIA. 7th July 2010 – Winter is upon us and the best way to escape from the chilly weather, storms, rain and morning frost is to stay indoors and practice those guitar solos, drum fills and vocal ranges in the 12 new additions to ... [»]
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