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Harmonix Might Create Non Music Games in the Future

Video game developer Harmonix has been rather quiet in the last few months and has kept quiet about the titles that it plans to create after the launch of Dance Central 2, which will be out this fall exclusively on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft.But now the leader of the company says that they might be getting ready to ...

21 September 2011
13:41 GMT

Guitar Hero and DJ Hero DLC Will Continue to Appear

Activision, in a rather surprising move, has announced that DLC support for its Guitar Hero and DJ Hero franchises will continue to appear in the next few months, despite the two series being axed by the company. Activision made a lot of money with the Guitar Hero and DJ Hero franchises, but, in the last couple of...

28 February 2011
14:21 GMT

Activision Admits Guitar Hero and Music Games Lost Mass Appeal

Activision's CEO of publishing affairs, Eric Hirshberg has recently talked about music games in general and the company's Guitar Hero franchise in particular, saying that it has lost some of the mass market appeal, which resulted in massive sales a few years ago, but also revealed that there was still hope ...

10 December 2010
14:21 GMT

Konami and Harmonix End Legal Dispute Over Music Games

Rock Revolution and Karaoke Revolution publisher Konami has just decided to end its ongoing legal dispute with Harmonix, the creator of music game franchise Rock Band.Back in 2008, Konami, Japanese publisher of popular music and rhythm games like Rock Revolution, Karaoke Revolution and Dance, Dance Revolution, decide...

21 September 2010
02:53 GMT

DJ Hero Offers 'Tremendous Value'

One of the big releases of this fall will be DJ Hero, Activision's attempt at establishing a new spin off from the Guitar Hero franchise, which comes packed with a new controller, designed to look and behave like a DJ table.The company is saying that the title was developed to attract a whole array of new gamers...

6 July 2009
18:01 GMT

DJ Hero Will Be More Mainstream than Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero is the franchise that turned music games into a genre in videogaming but Activision is not content with its performance and hopes that DJ Hero, the spin off, will attract even more people and will prove to be more mainstream.Michael Griffith, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Activision Publishing, to...

26 June 2009
18:51 GMT

Lips Gets New Songs

May is shaping up to be an important month for those who enjoy a bit of karaoke on the Xbox 360, as Microsoft is getting ready to release 15 new tracks to its Lips videogame.The songs are set to arrive all throughout the month and will cost 160 Microsoft Points each, with only the three songs from New Edition being b...

4 May 2009
03:49 GMT

Music Video Games Announced

Analysts have been saying that games sell better than music, facts have proved so, thus it was only a matter of time until something like Music Video Games was going to happen. And it did sooner than expected, but I'm sure that's no problem for anybody: MvG is a music-based company that plans to focus on de...

28 May 2008
03:13 GMT


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