| | Mom Plays Rock Band Naked (Mildly NSFW) | 
Geoffrey Tim - June 25th, 2010 | Hey! Somebody else plays Rock Band and Guitar Hero exactly the way I do – completely naked. There’s just something so incredibly liberating about flailing my arms around wildly while the wind breezes through my matted chest hair. I’ll leave it to your imagination what it looks like when I play Van Halen’s Jump. To cleanse that image from ... [»] | 
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| Bobby Kotick Finds Humility at D.I.C.E | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 19th, 2010 | Vilified Activision CEO Bobby Kotick took the stand at this year’s D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit, an annual gathering of videogame executives, where they (I assume) talk about their yachts in the Bahamas. Famous for alienating himself from gamers, developers and gaming journalists for saying things like wanting to “take all the ... [»] | 
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| Activision – Only One Guitar Hero in 2010 | 
Geoffrey Tim - February 11th, 2010 | Activision have, during their latest financial investor call, announced that we’ll only be seeing one game in the Guitar Hero Franchise – one of just two music rhythm games from the publishing giant this year. The other? Previously announced sequel to Activision’s highest grossing new IP, DJ Hero. It’s about bloody time, if you ask me. The music rhythm genre was on the brink of becoming grossly ... [»] | 
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| DJ Hero Sequel Confirmed Despite Low Sales At Launch | 
Nick de Bruyne - January 18th, 2010 | Activision have faith that the DJ Hero franchise still has enough whiki wah's in it to make some serious dough.
DJ Hero was met with less that spectacular sales when it released at the end of last year despite the fact that the game is actually pretty damn fun to play. It someone just didn't appeal to the masses ... [»] |
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| Point and Laugh : Mad Catz Paid Money Not To make Guitar Hero | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 11th, 2010 | When Guitar Hero launched, it did so exclusively on the PS2. This wasn’t because of any exclusivity agreements because Sony saw the franchise as a portent of the onset of the rhythm gaming craze. No. Apparently Mad Catz had been commissioned to make the Xbox version, but as a result of the pending law suit between Harmonix and Konami (who made the earlier GuitarFreaks) they tried to back ... [»] |
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| Christmas Light Hero | 
Geoffrey Tim - December 15th, 2009 | I’ll admit it – I’m a bit of a grinch. I have about as much Christmas spirit and yuletide cheer as your average jar of orange marmalade. I’ve also pretty much had my fill of guitar Hero and rhythm games in general, but this made me smile – for a few minutes until I realised what a colossal waste of ... [»] |
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| Guitar Hero: Van Halen Demo Available On Xbox Live | 
Nick de Bruyne - December 9th, 2009 | The demo for Guitar Hero: Van Halen is now available to download on Xbox Live.
The demo includes four songs overall, "Eruption" and "Panama" from Van Halen and then Dope Nose (Weezer) and "The End of Heartache" (Killswitch Engage). I don't want to rip the game, seeing as ... [»] |
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| Activision Enlists Third Developer for Call of Duty | 
Geoffrey Tim - November 19th, 2009 | Not content with just having two development houses – Infinity Ward and Treyarch – on call to churn out Call of Duty games, Activision have apparently signed up a third developer for the rapidly-approaching-critical-mass franchise.There’s no word on who the developer may be, although fingers are currently pointing at Sledgehammer Games, a new Activision-owned studio comprised of former Visceral Games heads, and leaders of the Dead Space ... [»] |
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| The Lazygamer Podcast – Episode 18: House Hunter 3D | 
Nick de Bruyne - September 16th, 2009 | Episode 18 of The Lazygamer Podcast looks at console-less Guitar Heros, days that require you to sit and play games as well as price cuts, local distributors and more. We also ask ourselves why games are getting easier, more casual and whether or not that is actually ... [»] |
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| Activision look to Eschew Consoles | 
Geoffrey Tim - September 15th, 2009 | Activison Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick definitely has plans for world domination, you can almost see the pure undistilled evil in his eyes. He is, of course, going to start with domination of the videogame industry - and if the performance of MMORPG champion World of Warcraft and the expectations surrounding Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 are any sort of ... [»] |
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| Brazil : Tectoy Releases Mega Drive Guitar Idol | 
Geoffrey Tim - September 1st, 2009 | If you’ve been to Clicks or Verimark stores…ever… you’ve no doubt seen their undoubtedly above board Tele and MegaGameStations. These awful devices are essentially clone hardware of the Nintendo 8 bit NES and 16 bit Sega Megadrive. While I’m not certain about the dubious legality of these machines in South Africa, in Brazil ... [»] | 
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| Bobby Kotick Makes a Lot of Money | 
Geoffrey Tim - August 11th, 2009 | Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision-Blizzard does not like videogames - or the people who play them. What he does like though is the revenue generated by the people who pay for them. Considering how much he personally made from us last year, it’s easy to see why. The head honcho at the world’s largest evil videogaming mega-corporation – responsible for the Warcraft, Call of ... [»] | 
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| Multitasking : Kid Plays Guitar Hero and Solves Two Rubik’s Cubes At the Same Time | 
Geoffrey Tim - August 11th, 2009 | Of the multitude of things I’m capable of that require dextrous fingers, solving Rubik’s cubes and playing Guitar Hero do not make the list. The multi-coloured blocks that are common to both are obviously some sort of personal kryptonite, as they both leave my fingers and brain in a state of flubbery non-compliance. The kid in this video puts me to utter shame if you consider that he’s capable of doing both. At the same time. Watch in awe as he ... [»] |
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