Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Activision Gets Hammered: Decides to Axe Guitar Hero Franchise and Cut Back

Well it seems that Rock Band has finally won the battle of the Guitar games.

The Call Of Duty owner is thought will make an unknown number of staff at London and Leamington Spa studio FreeStyleGames redundant, while the future of Canadian studio United Front is also in doubt.

Eurogamer understands that the Guitar Hero franchise will be abolished completely – a move which casts doubts over Activision’s subsidiary studio Vicarious Visions, which was handed development duties on the series last year.

The upcoming True Crime project, in development at United Front, is said will not make it to retail.

I think these music rhythm games might be near the end unless something fresh comes out. I'm pretty sure that EA will keep Rock Band going now that they will own the genre completely. However, the high water mark of revenue may be over for them.

No comments: