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DJ Qbert scratching up DJ Hero 2?

By thorsen-ink, GameSpotPosted Sep 30, 2009 4:35 pm PT

Source: UK industry news site GamesIndustry.biz. What we heard: Having already rocked over $2 billion out of Guitar Hero, Activision is expanding its rhythm game empire into other musical genres. On October 27, it will go after hip-hop, techno, and club-music fans' dollars with DJ Hero, a...

Source: UK industry news site GamesIndustry.biz.

What we heard: Having already rocked over $2 billion out of Guitar Hero, Activision is expanding its rhythm game empire into other musical genres. On October 27, it will go after hip-hop, techno, and club-music fans' dollars with DJ Hero, a turntable-peripheral based title from its UK-based studio, FreeStyle Games. In development for the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 2, the game will feature such prominent acts as Daft Punk, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, J.Period, Z-Trip, Grandmaster Flash, and the late DJ AM. (The game will also feature emcees Eminem and Jay-Z.)

Though it remains to be seen how many consumers will plunk down $120 for the standard edition of DJ Hero--let alone $200 for the renegade edition--a sequel is apparently already in the works. GI.biz sources claim that "at least one independent UK games developer is already liaising with Activision's FreeStyleGames on DJ Hero 2."

GI.biz also reports that groundbreaking turntablist DJ Qbert has "been approached" to be in the sequel. In the 1990s, DJ Qbert (real name Richard Quitevis) was a founding member of the San Francisco Bay Area group the Invisibl Skratch Piklz and was a three-time victor at the DMC World DJ Championship. If confirmed, it would be the third game appearance for Qbert, whose music was used in the original Tony Hawk's Underground, in which the DJ was also a playable character, and FreQuency, the 2001 PlayStation 2 rhythm title from original Guitar Hero developer Harmonix.

The official story: "Activision does not comment on rumors or speculation."--An Activision representative.

Bogus or not bogus?: Not bogus that a DJ Hero sequel is assured. According to the NPD Group, rhythm game genre revenues are down 46 percent through August 2009, meaning Activision will be looking at every opportunity to exploit--and re-exploit--any untapped markets. Whether DJ Qbert will be part of a future project, however, remains to be seen.

55 Comments

  • raev92

    Posted Oct 16, 2009 8:36 pm PT

    This is a F*****g joke...right?!?!

  • Timbydude

    Posted Oct 5, 2009 7:57 pm PT

    Aw, I thought "DJ Qbert" was referring to the little orange guy who jumps on cubes, decked out in turntablist getup. Maybe some day...

  • zakkess

    Posted Oct 5, 2009 4:51 pm PT

    wow, all activision has to offer us is sequels..they should have never gave up brutal legend.

  • ColonelX24

    Posted Oct 5, 2009 7:38 am PT

    You know I stopped caring about Activision's music games a long time ago

  • chapnzaba

    Posted Oct 3, 2009 7:51 pm PT

    I wouldn't be surprised if Activision surprise released it a month after the first one.

  • thetravman

    Posted Oct 2, 2009 8:32 pm PT

    Who wouldn't be surprised to see a sequel. Sheeze.

  • 22xl

    Posted Oct 2, 2009 11:45 am PT

    coldsauce, Have you not noticed that there will be 5 Guitar Hero games out at once this year? They're not just milking the "gangstas and hiphopers". This game has very little to do with "gangstas". Let's not lump all hip-hop into one group. That would be like saying Guitar Hero was milking all the "headbangers and hippies"...

  • coldsauce09

    Posted Oct 2, 2009 11:06 am PT

    2nd title already? activision really knows how to milk those gangstas and hiphopers.

  • Paul2005

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 4:03 pm PT

    u guys know its fake right>

  • neovalkyr

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 3:16 pm PT

    a second one is in the works? you mean they're copying and pasting the code to a different file?

  • mightEone

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 1:22 pm PT

    lol you guys obviously missed the point. By the time you spent all your money buying all the guitar heros and DLC, you could of bought a nice guitar and amp. You buy Rock band and all its little goodies when you could of got a nice roland drum kit. And this game is a waste because you buy the game and the DLC when you could of bought yourself some turntables. I never said they would be top notch. Believe me I know, I own a guitar, two keyboards and software thats worth more than a car.

  • vancealighieri

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 12:49 pm PT

    I think that they aren't even going to release DJ hero 1. It's all a scheme. DJ here 2 will be the true first release of the franchise, built on the hype of the lost DJ hero 1 Oh and seriously, Just go and learn to spin the real thing. I played the demo, since it ur not really mixing, I don't really understand the point....

  • gatsbythepig

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 11:09 am PT

    Seriously? A second one, I can't believe anyone bought the first.

  • djmiranda15

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 10:18 am PT

    W T F ?
    ALREADY!?
    You have got to be kidding us. There is no way you can be planning for a sequel to a still unreleased franchise.
    That's the absurdest milkage of all time.
    Somebody please hit the guy who came up with this with a pipe. Maybe it will reset his ideas.

  • baystatethrashr

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 10:16 am PT

    @Lucho_21

    too late they already announced GH9

  • ASG_

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 7:37 am PT

    As long as my school isn't struck with a wannabe deejaaay fad, then sure.

  • peterson

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 6:59 am PT

    @Gorilla97

    Shut up you twit. If you want to keep buying your Pokemon games, would you like it if people started talking sh*t and saying not to buy it? You don't like a series, don't buy it. They made 2 BILLION with this franchise, it's quite obvious people want it.

  • Gorilla97 posted Oct 1, 2009 5:43 am PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    Gorilla97

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 5:43 am PT (hide)

    i hope DJ Hero, Band Hero and Guitar Hero: Van Halen bomb miserably! it's about a sure thing GHVH will anyway, but enough is enough Activision!!! out of protest, i know i won't be buying any of these games and i hope nobody else does either.

  • Weddum

    Posted Oct 1, 2009 5:41 am PT

    Um, what? Seriously Activision? Milking a new franchise before it even comes out? Just no.

    They know if DJ Hero takes off, then another developer will make something better. Probably trying to get as much revenue as possible from it before that happens.

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