A clear sign that the holiday-release season is in full swing, with AAA quality titles arriving each new week, is a quick look at the video-game sale chart in the United Kingdom, which now appears to be switching leaders each time a new edition comes out. This week, the newly released Need for Speed: Shift from Elect... |
24 September 2009
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This week has been oddly dominated by news related to Take Two and its biggest franchise, Grand Theft Auto. The company released its financial results for the third quarter of the financial year and things are not looking good, with losses of about 55.5 million dollars and with Red Dead Redemption, BioShock 2 and Max... |
5 September 2009
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Activision representatives have confirmed that the downloadable content set to be offered for Guitar Hero 5, the music simulation title arriving on September 1, will not be playable by those who own Guitar Hero World Tour or another older version of the series. This basically means that all the gamers who are interes... |
24 August 2009
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Music games have become extremely important in recent years for many of the companies involved in the industry. They provide many profit opportunities but also the chance to market more than one title per year without risking saturating the market. That is why we see a lot of franchises like Guitar Hero, Rock Band o... |
20 August 2009
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Music games are extremely popular these days as they deliver a great dose of entertainment to the end user but also bring many profit opportunities for the companies involved in making them and for the bands and artists that contribute their tracks. That is why franchises like Guitar Hero or Rock Band are making a h... |
19 August 2009
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The Beatles Rock Band might dominate September but the music game of December will likely prove to be Guitar Hero: Van Halen, the title dedicated to the '80's band, which Activision has confirmed as coming out on December 22. To make sure that interest in the game reaches big values, the publisher has also ... |
7 August 2009
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Music games are true moneymakers for companies involved in either developing or publishing them all around the world. Not only do sales of various iterations reach big milestones but also the peripherals and the DLC tracks delivered every week generate more money for companies like Harmonix or Activision.Now, as Guit... |
3 June 2009
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Music games are veritable never-ending sources of profit, as people will flock to buy both the retail titles and the plastic instruments needed in order to play them, along with more tracks for the games via Downloadable Content. That's why the two biggest companies involved in this genre, Activision and Harmon... |
27 May 2009
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Music games are becoming very important these days and although the two companies that currently hold the genre in their clutches, Activision and Harmonix, are both very popular, they will soon release customized versions of their Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles. While Guitar Hero: Metallica promises to deliver the... |
6 March 2009
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