Guitar Hero founders working on new fitness games
Upcoming mobile exercise games hope to make workouts more social; company is currently accepting interest from game developers wishing to develop for the new platform.
Upcoming mobile exercise games hope to make workouts more social; company is currently accepting interest from game developers wishing to develop for the new platform.
Analysts disagree on whether Activision could have done things differently to keep rhythm series viable, but expect Tony Hawk to make an eventual return.
Activision confirms that downloadable content pipeline will dry up after this month.
Once-mighty rhythm franchise's latest installment canned; DJ Hero discontinued; United Front's open-world game also given the chop; no new skateboarding game in 2011; Activision's global workforce being culled by 7%.
Activision shake-up continues with closure of studio behind Blast Works, Guitar Hero ports, trimming of California QA team; 88 positions impacted.
BioWare's action RPG takes the RPG and Ultimate Game of the Year awards at London ceremony; Call of Duty series picks up Shooter and One to Watch gongs.
Go back to school in style with the best picks for party, portable, and laptop computer games for those late-night dorm room sessions--along with selections of the best new games ...
PlayStation Store Update: 8-bit movie tie-in hits Sony's virtual storefront; PSOne Classics welcome Crash Team Racing; Mafia II, Valkyria Chronicles II get demoed.
PlayStation Store Update: Remastered platformer hits Sony's PS3 download store alongside Protector Trials content for 2K's underwater shooter; Warriors of the Lost Empire for PSP and two PSP minis round ...
Eclectic additions to Activision's latest music game include headliners The Used, Megadeth, and P.O.D.; tunes compatible with next month's Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
PlayStation Store Update: $10 add-on for Activision's shooter touches down; Piyotama puzzles PSP; four PlayStation classics hit PSN; PlayStation Plus gets free Critter Crunch, Syphon Filter, and Kahoots.
PlayStation Store Update: Hothead's comic-action RPG now available to download next to helicopter adventure game Landit Bandit; heap of NCAA Football 11 add-on content also available.
PlayStation Store Update: Shooter's second $15 DLC hits Sony's online storefront; Monkey Island Special Edition 2: LeChuck's Revenge available for PS3, Persona 3 for PSP digital download.
KISS bassist tells British game show Game On that he's in the next installment of the rhythm series, due in the second half of this year.
DICE 2010: Outspoken executive Bobby Kotick laments passing on The Sims, Harmonix, explains "taking the fun out of making games," and announces $500,000 indie game challenge.
Original Guitar Hero shop named as the latest casualty in publisher's sweeping cuts; Van Halen developer also shuttered.
[UPDATE] Publisher's "realigning [of] resources" sees Prototype staff culled, Transformers studio shuttered; Guitar Hero rumored to be taken from Neversoft.
Following 2009 rhythm glut, publisher reducing release count to one Guitar Hero, one DJ Hero in back half of year, no PS2 versions; iPhone adaptation in the works.
Modern Warfare 2's record sales can't prevent Oct.-Dec. shortfall caused by asset write-down; earnings still beat analysts' expectations, stock up in after-hours trading; full-year profit of $113 million.
Ex-Yahoo exec Dan Rosensweig departs "to pursue other career opportunities" after less than a year on the job.
Industry watchers pull varying lessons from the year's retail wreckage, predict return to growth in 2010.
NPD analyst pegs total store-bought software figure at $1.46 million last month; Activision's shooter franchise most lucrative so far in 2009.
Draft of Digital Economy measure proposes exceptions for games situated in athletics, rhythm, religion genres.
Modern Warfare 2 launch window sees Bobby Kotick exercise nearly 2 million stock options for $1.99 million--which he immediately sells for $22.2 million.
World's top publisher turns small profit on $703 million in sales; $4.05 billion 2009 outlook maintained despite concerns about holiday consumer spending.
Activision's latest rhythm game strikes discordant retail note as Football Manager 2010 jumps in at number one.
[UPDATE] Cowen and Company's Doug Creutz cuts sales projections for Activision's latest rhythm game by 61 percent, citing online demand that is "well below" expectations.
Aion, Champions Online debut atop NPD's monthly PC rankings, while Kingdom Hearts 358/2, Scribblenauts, and NHL 10 and in bottom half of top 20; [UPDATE] Need for Speed Shift moves ...
Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter predicts that after potentially disappointing October results, "double-digit gains will be the norm" until the back half of next year.
Activision takes the lid off of family-friendly rhythm game's console, DS Lite soundtracks; 61 tracks importable to Guitar Hero 5.
MTV Games' Fab Four tribute shifts 595,000 units in opening month, nearly 100,000 more than Activision's flagship contender; Abbey Road DLC out this week.
$1.28 billion haul, 1% growth ends months of double-digit decline; Sony's console sells 491,000 systems; Halo 3: ODST sells 1.52 million units; analyst split on implications.
Revamp of the Xbox 360's online interface will add dedicated music DLC and content channel as well as MSNBC news updates, New Yorker cartoons, and...Dilbert?
Pacific Crest Securities' Evan Wilson says October will likely see a return to shrinking revenues, projects Guitar Hero 5 outsold Beatles: Rock Band in debut month.
After last week's massive PlayStation Store update and its assortment of more than 100 PSP games, Sony gave itself a tough act to follow. This week's update may not have ...
Wedbush Morgan projections have Fab Four game outselling Activision's latest nearly 2:1 in debut month; EEDAR says both titles exceeded expectations.
Wedbush Morgan's Pachter, EEDAR's Divnich project double-digit game growth last month, say Sony has most to gain from price cut.
Early purchase incentives for Guitar Hero 5 customers begin arriving in customers' mailboxes; rhythm game hits retail December 22.
School's in, and so are some of the best gaming gifts for the students, teachers, and classmates on your shopping list.
Guitar Hero 5 rocks its way into the national sales charts in its debut week.
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