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Activision’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock will arrive in stores on September 24th, available with or without a new customisable guitar controller. Warriors of Rock is the sixth entry in the Guitar Hero franchise – a series that has sold more than 44m units to date. The game features a …
Read More »“When are new things good for games?”
David Braben looks at the future of the industry now that motion controls are here to stay
Read More »Neversoft: We lost our souls
Neversoft lost its soul and spark in the pursuit of chart success, according to one of its senior staff. Guitar Hero project director Brian Bright described the mood at Neversoft in the last two years – a period which saw the team chase fame in the face of Rock Band, …
Read More »Neversoft on â??selling outâ?? in the race for sales
Project director Brian Bright, who is working on what is thought to be the very last Neversoft-made Guitar Hero game, bares all
Read More »Neversoft: Music game sales ARE down
Sales of music games ARE falling – regardless of what MTV Games might think, says Guitar Hero developer Neversoft. MTV told MCV in May that, despite widespread reports, music game sales increased last year and it was just the peripherals that suffered year-on-year declines. But Neversoft says this isn’t true …
Read More »Transforming Guitar Hero range revealed
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock will see the launch of a new, transformable guitar controller, The new guitar controller will essentially be a standalone neck and fret board, but consumers will be able to customise the device with a range of separate body parts that attach to the central controller. …
Read More »Transforming Guitar Hero range revealed
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock will see the launch of a new, transformable guitar controller, The new guitar controller will essentially be a standalone neck and fret board, but consumers will be able to customise the device with a range of separate body parts that attach to the central controller. …
Read More »Guitar Hero 6 and DJ Hero 2 due Q4
After posting a rise in profit, Activision has confirmed that Guitar Hero 6 will be released this autumn followed by DJ Hero 2. The announcements come alongside the publisher’s new plans to cut the amount of music games in the future, emphasising fewer titles with greater quality. In a conference …
Read More »‘Real guitar’ game puts pressure on Guitar Hero
A new US developer has decloaked at GDC, revealing a new game it thinks can revitalise the competitive mass market music game genre. Seven45 Studios is a Boston-based team of former LucasArts, Pandemic, Atari and Vivendi vets working on their first game, Power Gig. But as a subsidiary of music …
Read More »GDC: New US studio unveils ‘real guitar’ game
Power Gig comes with six-string peripheral; Creator says it can turn around failing music game genre
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