"It's not a Rock Band game, it's a Beatles game," said Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos in late October. But today, Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix announced that their hotly-anticipated music game will be both. "The Beatles: Rock Band" will arrive in stores worldwide on Sept. 9, for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, at a $60 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Given sales data -- and the economic challenge of purchasing $190 plastic instruments in a recession -- some have suggested that music games are a fad already on their way out. Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith disagrees. In an investor conference call today, he spoke about a multitude of ways the company intends to extend the "Guitar Hero" franchise.
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 13, 2009
In a cozy little theatre at CES 2009, Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith explained that the multi-billion dollar success of "Guitar Hero" stemmed from one simple truth. "It's tapping into an almost universal dream in a very realistic way," he said. "Is there anyone in this room who has never dreamt of becoming a rock [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
When the visionaries of gaming speak, the world listens, and at CES, there are plenty of opportunities to hear from the industry's most influential designers, developers, and more. GameCyte had the opportunity to speak with Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix, about his company's many contributions to the worlds of games and music, and where he'd [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
When SingStar made its PlayStation 3 debut and brought us the SingStore, we were all told that we’d never have to deal with “minor” SingStar releases again. New SingStar game out? You can bet it has some new features. SingStar 2 just barely squeaked by that criteria thanks to the new harmonies feature, but SingStar [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
Next week, Rock Band will be hitting 500 total songs thanks to a dose of No Doubt. (Now known as “Gwen Stefani and some guys.”) The hugely popular 90s rock-pop-ska band will finally be arriving on the Rock Band DLC scene with thirteen tracks from their 2003 album, The Singles 1992-2003, which featured the band’s [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 6, 2008
Though the title effectively dropped off the charts in Japan this October after selling a respectable 383,000 copies, music game Daigasso! Band Brothers DX was singled out by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in the company's Q2 earnings presentation for being a prime example of how the company would like to embrace user-generated content. By partnering with [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 3, 2008
See, Bobby? We told you this would happen. In the ongoing music licensing battle between Harmonix/MTV and Activision/Red Octane, last week saw an impressive "get" for the former camp, when it was announced that Harmonix and MTV had secured the exclusive rights to create a Beatles music game. During the initial conference, neither Harmonix nor [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 30, 2008
The rumors have been swirling about for quite a while now, and while preliminary confirmations had already been spotted by clever investigators over at Joystiq, MTV hosted a joint conference call with Apple Corps, Ltd. to simultaneously confirm and dash our hopes. Officially announcing one of the most impressive "gets" in the music-game licensing war, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 27, 2008
Guitar Hero World Tour launches today with 86 tracks, the promise of twenty more within the first month of launch, and a mode that lets you create your own music from scratch. Even compared to the musical monstrosity that is Rock Band, that's a pretty fair offering. But despite tremendous hype, what Guitar Hero may not [...]
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