Guitar Hero franchise nets a billion
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NPD group has reported that American retail sales of Activision's popular Guitar Hero music simulator franchise have put it among the top-selling game franchises of all time, earning over $1 billion in 26 months.
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A company that many expected never to make it to launch has opened up offering 770,000 songs
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Harmonix's new game, the aptly named Rock Band, will be released for Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 by year's end. The company had a surprise success with its previous franchise, Guitar Hero, but Rock Band -- along with its four peripherals -- will retail for $200, four times as much as a typical game.
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After years of highlighting new  bands through its many videogames, the world's largest game  publisher is getting into the digital music game.
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Activision Inc. said  on Thursday it had sold more than 300,000 downloadable song  packs for its hit &quot;Guitar Hero II&quot; music game, giving it  confidence it will not have to lower prices despite outrage at  the cost among some game fans.
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US GROUP Electronic Arts, the world&#39;s largest video game maker, has acquired 19.9 per cent of French rival Ubi Soft Entertainment from Talpa Beheer for an undisclosed sum.
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From Wired Geekipedia: Who needs music lessons when there's Guitar Hero? The game's guitar-shaped controller puts you in control.
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Get ready! The complete and fully ordered setlist for the popular game Guitar Hero III has been leaked online (still unconfirmed, though).
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After big layoffs and management turmoil, the developer of the metaverse There looked near death. But $14 million in new funding has pumped some life into the company. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Video game retailer posts strong results leading into holiday quarter.
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Are online gaming champions the rock stars of the 21st century? Fifty million Koreans canÂt be wrong.
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The video game company leads the way with advertising placements.
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LONDON - Video game and mobile phone companies are set to rake in the cash this year as customers use phones to zap space invaders or sink game-winning golf putts, pushing the mobile gaming market over US$1 billion (NZ$1.
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US video game industry sales rocketed to a record high 17.9 billion dollars in 2007, with Nintendo reigning as champion of the console battle with Microsoft and Sony, according to research group NPD.
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Game publisher's purchase of a chunk of rival Ubisoft caps a year of aggressive business moves.
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- Guitar Center Inc.  said it agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Bain Capital Partners LLC for about $2.1 billion, including assumed debt.
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Tycho:  The aggregate price for all Rock Band peripherals was originally three hundred dollars, going by the vague entries in the Gamespot database, but those strange figures are really the chicken entrails of the gaming industry - its powers of prophecy are somewhat in question.