Guitar Hero
Video Game
Cultural impact of the Guitar Hero series...help recovering patients. Both Guitar Hero and Rock Band, a similar series of games developed by Harmonix Music Systems (who originally developed Guitar Hero), have altered the video game and music industries. For video games, the... In this article: Guitar Hero, Activision, Rock Band, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, The Beatles: Rock Band, Guitar Hero II, Rock Band, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero, and Guitar Hero World Tour |
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Xconomy | November 01, 2009
New England Biz Plan Competitions That Offer Cash and Connections to Entrepreneurs
...Entrepreneurship Competition: Cambridge, MA-based video game developer Harmonix Music Systems, creator of the hugely popular Guitar Hero franchise, and the dental imaging firm Brontes Technologies, which was acquired by 3M for $95 million...
In this article: New England, Boston, Venture capital, MIT, Babson College, Harmonix Music Systems, Twitter, and 3M
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | July 25, 2009
Fantasy game may be a tough pitch
...working at Harmonix Music Systems in Cambridge. (Harmonix created the hit games Guitar Hero and Rock Band, which became the game to most quickly reach $1 billion in sales earlier this year.) But, "if you can be at the right place at the...
In this article: Curt Schilling, 38 Studios, World of Warcraft, Big Huge Games, Revenue, Electronic Arts Inc., Cambridge, and Venture capital
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Wikipedia | October 12, 2009
Guitar Hero (video game)
Guitar Hero (video game) Guitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first entry in the Guitar Hero series . Guitar Hero was released on...
In this article: Guitar Hero, GuitarFreaks, RedOctane, Frequency, Microsoft, GameSpot, and Amplitude
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Changing the game
...of widely anticipated titles. Sales of music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, developed by Harmonix Music Systems of Cambridge, are down $390 million from the same period last year, according to the NPD Group. But next week's release of a...
In this article: Sony Corp., Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft, Nintendo, Wii, and Recession
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Rock Band (video game)
...was released in November 2008. Harmonix Music Systems was previously responsible for making the Guitar Hero series , while RedOctane manufactured the peripherals and owned the rights to the series. However, in June 2006, RedOctane was...
In this article: Rock Band, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Rock Band, MTV, Wii, PlayStation 2, and Rock Band 2
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PR Newswire | October 03, 2007
Activision Pays Homage With Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s
...Rocks the 80s(TM) & (C) 2006-2007 Activision Publishing, Inc. Guitar Hero is a trademark and Activision and RedOctane are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. Game code (C) 2005-2007 Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. Developed by...
In this article: Activision, Trademark, Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s, RedOctane, Harmonix Music Systems, Nasdaq, Rocks, and All rights reserved
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Gamespot | March 26, 2009
Rock Band franchise joins $1 billion club
...downloadable songs sold. In January 2008, Activision announced that the Guitar Hero franchise, purchased along with RedOctane in May 2006 for nearly $100 million, had achieved $1 billion in sales in North America. The feat came 26 months...
In this article: Rock Band, MTV Games, Rock Band, NPD Group, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Wii, PlayStation 3, and North America
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Gaming Away the Holiday Weekend at the Penny Arcade Expo (Part 2) Xconomy
"A few years ago, the only way to get your game out was via PC or console games," says my friend Dan Schmidt, senior software developer (and employee #3) at Cambridge, MA-based Harmonix Music Systems, maker of Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
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New York Times | November 25, 2007
Dueling Guitars in Gameland: MTV and Activision Face Off
� The rivalry between MTV and Activision is made more stark in that both Rock Band and the previous versions of Guitar Hero were developed by Harmonix Music Systems (the newest Guitar Hero was developed by another studio). MTV...
In this article: MTV, Activision, Rock Band, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Rock Band, Revenue, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Guitar Hero II
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Guitar Hero is a series of music video games first published in 2005 by RedOctane and distributed by Activision in which players use a guitar-shaped peripheral to simulate the playing of lead, bass guitar and rhythm guitar across numerous rock music songs. Players match notes that scroll on-screen to colored fret buttons on the controller, strumming the controller in time to the music in order to score points, and keep the virtual audience excited. The games attempt to mimic many features of playing a real guitar, including the use of fast-fingering hammer-ons and pull-offs and the use of the whammy bar to alter the pitch of notes. Most games support single player modes, typically a Career mode to play through all the songs in the game, and both competitive and cooperative multiplayer modes. With the introduction of Guitar Hero World Tour in 2008, the game includes support for a four-player band including vocals and drums. The series initially used mostly cover version of songs created by WaveGroup Sound, but most recent titles feature soundtracks that are fully master recordings, and in some cases, special re-recordings, of the songs. Later titles in the series feature support for downloadable content in the form of new songs.
- Genre:
- Rhythm game
- Developed by:
- Neversoft (2007-present)
- Latest Release:
- Guitar Hero 5
- Platforms:
- Console, PC, Arcade
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