Activision poised to score with new guitar game
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Activision Inc is set to launch  "Guitar Hero 3" amid expectations that the latest installment  of its music-themed franchise will be a platinum hit for the  second-biggest U.S. video game publisher.
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The game is the highly anticipated encore to one of the year's breakout successes, "Guitar Hero 2," which sold 3.9 million copies through September.
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Tycho:  It started with the rumor that a patch was en route for Rock Band on the PS3, one that would accomplish the unthinkable:  support for its rival's guitar controller.  We've been using Guitar Hero controllers on the 360 version for awhile, completely out of necessity, and if that path had been barred to us we might not have been able to play at all.
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Activision, publisher of the enormously popular computer game Guitar Hero, will release a special version of the game built entirely around the music of the band Aerosmith in June. The game will play on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and Playstation 2.
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MTV Networks on Friday announced an agreement to acquire Harmonix Music Systems, the company behind the popular Guitar Hero game for the PlayStation 2. Harmonix joins a number of other companies recently brought into the MTV fold.
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The video game company leads the way with advertising placements.
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The Learning Technologies Project Office of NASA is actively considering hopping on the video game bandwagon by releasing its own massively multiplayer online game.
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Video game publisher Activision Inc. posted a 26 percent rise in quarterly profit on Monday, beating its own raised expectations and the most optimistic Wall Street estimates, on broad strength in its holiday game lineup.
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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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Activision has revealed that it plans to ship Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines on November 16th in the USA, meaning that the game will be in direct competition with Valve&#39;s Half-Life 2 - the Source Engine technology for which Bloodlines uses under
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The band that brought the  infectious grooves of "Hey Mama" and "Let's Get It Started" to  nightclubs across America has signed up to do the same for a  video game where success is measured by how cool players are.
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The Club, due out next week for the Xbox 360 and PS3, is a straight-up shooter game.
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The newest release in the GTA franchise, San Andreas, could be the best yet,
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In the two months since MTV Networks  and Harmonix released the music-based videogame "Rock Band,"  players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million  additional songs made available after the game's initial  distribution. Activision, meanwhile, said it has sold more than  5 million new songs via download for "Guitar Hero III: Legends  of Rock" since it began adding downloadable content in early  November.
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Tycho: Keek directed me to a radical (and potentially even "badical") article on BioShock over at Gamers Wif Jobs. I've been wondering about the recent PR shift the game has gone through, because I don't just keep hearing that it is a "shooter first," but I keep hearing specifically that it is a "kick-ass shooter," even though it's a game where you learn about Objectivism underwater while helping jealous composers get revenge. I've never doubted that the game will be great, by whatever road it reaches that greatness. The recent WWE slant just had me curious about whether I'll be able to perform a suplex in-game. You may not think that is important, but it is totally important.(CW)TB
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Electronic Arts is embarking on a project that entails trying to redefine video games for a new audience.
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Video gamers, finally emerging  from the pixilated haze brought on by last year's bumper crop  of best-selling titles, are now turning their attention to  upcoming releases.