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Posted on July 27, 2009
Fans of StarCraft are going to have to a wait for a while as Blizzard has announced that the game is not going to be released this holiday season. The reason? Battle.net. Over the past couple of weeks, it...
Posted on October 27, 2008
I think I was still in diapers when Risky Business first hit theatres. I think that a lot of people interested in this game weren't even born yet when Tom Cruise slid across the living room on his socks....
Posted on October 16, 2008
When Activision said that they'd be ramping up production of new Guitar Hero games, I guess they meant it. The launch of Guitar Hero: World Tour is just around the corner and we're already hearing about a bunch of...
Posted on October 14, 2008
As if the Nintendo Wii was not already home to tons of mini-game compilations, it seems that Activision wants a big piece of this casual sports game pie as well. It started with the pack-in Wii Sports and continued...
Posted on September 18, 2008
You may have heard the news from Neversoft and Activision that they would be producing way more Guitar Hero games in the coming years, doubling production in 2009 and tripling production by 2010. We're not talking about volume here,...
Posted on July 21, 2008
Rock Band 2 may boast one of the largest track lists ever found in a rhythm game of its kind, but the guys at Activision have a rather important Trump car up their sleeves as well. The official track...
Posted on July 16, 2008
Even though the original Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS was only released a mere month ago, the sales figures have been enough of a motivating factor for Activision to announce that a sequel is already in...
Posted on July 8, 2008
Well, it's a done deal. Activision Blizzard is now officially a single entity, appearing in Nasdaq as AVTI. GameDaily reports the deal officially closes on July 9 and the new company will trade on the Nasdaq under Activision's ATVI ticker....
Posted on June 19, 2008
Remember when we heard a little while ago that the guitar for the upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour would have touch-sensitive controls in addition to the physical fret buttons? We weren't exactly sure how these would work and whether...
Posted on May 14, 2008
The name of the game may be Guitar Hero IV, but it's not just about frets and strum bars for this upcoming addition to the rhythm game franchise. Faced with the multiplayer competition of Rock Band, Activision is expanding...
Posted on April 29, 2008
And so they have opened up a whole new can of worms, one that many other bands and musicians may choose to consider when working with video game developers. Aerosmith has officially announced that they have signed a contract...
Posted on March 25, 2008
If you thought American Idol brought out the crazies, you've got to check out this competition being hosted by Activision. They've taken an American Idol-like stage, complete with a trio of judges and a rocking backdrop, and they're asking...
Posted on January 3, 2008
Rock on! Everyone got pretty excited about Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock this past holiday season and the game was pretty hard to find in stores, getting sold out pretty much across the board (with the exception of...
Posted on December 3, 2007
Blizzard and Activision have merged, proving that even in the Internet age, you can still manage to surprise people. Since I browse gaming websites everyday, I'm pretty sure no one saw this coming other than the companies involved (by the...
Posted on September 11, 2007
The irony of it all is that Guitar Hero isn't even that novel of a concept. Before Guitar Hero even existed, Konami -- through its Bemani branch -- had an arcade rocking franchise known as Guitar Freaks. It was...
Posted on August 2, 2007
Well, not exactly, but industry analysts are predicting that the Guitar Hero franchise will be expanding beyond the axe, "adding additional musical peripherals in calendar year 08." The reason why analyst firm Janco believes that this is the "natural...
Posted on February 8, 2007
Jealous of your buddy and how he can tear up those riffs on his PlayStation 2 or Xbox 360, and how you're left hurling cows in Rayman Raving Rabbids? Well, get your rocker clothes on and ready, because according...
