Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero" brings higher revenue for Activision Guitar Hero brings higher revenue for Activision Video game publisher Activision Blizzard reported a quarterly profit that matched analysts' estimates and revenue that was higher than...

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...office Thomas Tipple highlighted the company's outlook for 2010, and confirmed a slew of new titles, including a new Call of Duty and Guitar Hero game. "In 2010, Activision publishing is expected to release a strong product line of...

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..."Our performance was driven by positive audience response to Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero 5, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, and the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises, as well as Blizzard Entertainment's World of...

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DJ Hero: "Pick Me, I'm an Urban Guitar Hero!" Games DJ Hero: "Pick Me, I'm an Urban Guitar Hero!" Posted by The Stranger Testing Department on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:17 AM Some people think guitars are boring. Where are their...

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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi gets stem cell treatment IT MAY not surprise parents that the head-banging, string-shredding world of heavy metal can seriously damage your health. But now Tony Iommi, the British guitarist who helped to...

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...is cool. Using a standard electromyograph attached to the forearm, the geeks at Microsoft's Muscle-Computer Interface group set up Guitar Hero to react to the position and pressure of all five fingers. How badass is this? In all honesty,...

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...one for the things-I-wish-I-were-talented-enough-to-do category. These five guys are playing a way-bigger-than-life-size game of Guitar Hero by shooting soccer balls at sensors made from torn apart Guitar Hero controllers. Oh, and...

...most social and interactive Guitar Hero game ever. Official Xbox Magazine said, "This is the Guitar Hero game to own" while AOL GameDaily said, "Guitar Hero 5 feels just fresh as it did when the series debuted on the PlayStation 2."

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...Updated: October 23, 2009: 4:51 PM ET NEW YORK (Fortune) -- It's been a busy few years for Dan Rosensweig. As president and CEO of the Guitar Hero division of game publisher Activision Blizzard (ATVI), he's watched the music-genre video...

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...guitar solo could already be receding. That could be why Activision opted to give away copies of Guitar Hero: Van Halen to folks who pre-ordered Guitar Hero V. Demand for difficult, ear-piercing guitar tunes and games built around them may...

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