Shaba composing music game for Activision

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows studio now hiring audio techs to make karaoke note tracks for unspecified title.

San Francisco-based Shaba Games is no stranger to following in other developers' footsteps. The Activision subsidiary has spent the better part of the last decade working on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater ports and offshoots and made a splash last year with Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, GameSpot's highest-rated console Spidey game to date.

For its next project, Shaba could be working on yet another of Activision's well-established franchises. According to a job posting on Gamasutra, Shaba Games is working on a music game. The San Francisco-based developer, located a few miles from the nascent Activision Bay Area, is looking for a staffer "to create MIDI note data based on pre-recorded vocal tracks" and input song lyrics into the game.

The job listing doesn't specify which game Shaba is working on, but Activision has plenty of rhythm titles to choose from. This year alone, the publisher has released Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, with Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, and Guitar Hero: Van Halen still to come, all of which include sing-along gameplay.

20 Comments

  • konradak

    Posted Jul 21, 2009 10:01 am PT

    Shouldn't it be Band of Heroes?

  • Hotsora

    Posted Jul 21, 2009 5:44 am PT

    didn't mind web of shadows. Prototype has drawn a lot of inspiration from the title, guess that counts for something!

  • slipknot611

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 6:52 pm PT

    Awwwwwwww, yeah, it's time for Cymbal Hero!!! Triangle Hero? No wait, wait... Cowbell Hero. I'm all over that one.

  • XeonForce

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 3:24 pm PT

    Is this really suprising? Activision has almost single-handedly destroyed the music game industry. I think we need a "____ Hero" boycott, lolz...

  • TBoogy

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 3:08 pm PT

    LOL.
    I thought Shabba Ranks as well.
    I'm looking at the screen like "WTF?!?"

  • Generic_Dude

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 3:03 pm PT

    @icehearted: lol, when I first read this, I swear I thought (and hoped!) they meant Shabba Ranks. A mi Shabba!

  • Icehearted

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 2:05 pm PT

    @darkmask1991

    I know, I was so thinking the same, even if just for a second. Felt really out of left field.

  • sun_rider95

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 1:47 pm PT

    I didn't like web of ......

  • darkmask1991

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 1:43 pm PT

    @ Icehearted:

    When I saw the headline i thought, "Shabba's composing music??" then I figured it was a studio lol

  • Narutofan30

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 1:22 pm PT

    @JGoWild-Scratch Brutal Legend that EA But Still

  • Narutofan30

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 1:20 pm PT

    @JGoWild- I Dare you! Try not to buy COD, GH, Brutal Legend, Prototype, and many more to come.

  • JGoWild

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 12:59 pm PT

    Enough with the rythm games already. arrhhhhhh.
    That's it,
    I hereby announce that from this day onwards, I am not going to buy a single activision games.

  • Halcalix

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 12:54 pm PT

    Hahaha Can we have something different please?

  • Icehearted

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 12:43 pm PT

    Anyone remember Shabba Ranks?

    Look up "Mr. Ugly Man" on on youtube.

  • sirkibble2

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 11:57 am PT

    I am getting fed up with rhythm games.

  • Kro_429

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 11:46 am PT

    Way to suck at bringing originality to gaming Activision.

  • NuKkU

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 11:32 am PT

    man stop these rhythm games

  • nickythenewt21

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 11:01 am PT

    I would soooo buy a Sing Hero, as long as they're fun songs to sing.

  • kufal009

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 10:59 am PT

    i bet your right.... but we doesn't know what will be the outcome of the game,

  • nintendoboy16

    Posted Jul 20, 2009 10:52 am PT

    My guess it's Sing Hero or anything in the Hero series.

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