Guitar Hero

...than most to weather the economic storm. Anchored by a trio of blockbuster franchises including Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, the company has remained profitable despite a 12% drop in industrywide U.S. game sales in...

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In fact, the CEO called Guitar Hero the year's "#1 best-selling third-party franchise in North America and Europe" through September, claiming that U.S. sales of music games increased 72 percent year over year in September. Last...

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...deliver 'outstanding' revenue The hugely popular role-playing games Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft and Call of Duty have helped Vivendi, Europe's largest entertainment group, record a sharp rise in profits. Vivendi owns Activision...

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...(ATVI) Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2. Activision, with its recent merger with Blizzard, holds the video game rights to Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo. The company also produces video games based on...

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...the company. Activision Blizzard had kind words for the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises, which apparently many of you bought over the last three months, helping Acti-Blizz zoom past its projected $700 million quarter. CEO Robert...

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...-- with World of Warcraft's 11 million online subscribers. David wrote again last fall, "Hot new releases in the top-selling Guitar Hero franchise will strike a chord with shoppers this holiday season, while new titles, additional...

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...to the Xbox audience. Honey pointed out that "gamers love watching things about gaming," noting that the World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero inspired South Park episodes are the most popular shows on Xbox Live. We told you how Turbine was...

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...biggest two debut games. Also helping fill company coffers were catalog sales of Guitar Hero and Call of Duty games and ongoing income from the massively multiplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft. Kotick also tried to soothe the...

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...company, Activision Blizzard, that will boast two of the most popular computer games as part of its catalog: Activision's console-based Guitar Hero and Blizzard's massive multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft.

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