NEW YORK �\ These days, guns are more popular than guitars, at least when it comes to video games. The company behind "Guitar Hero" said Wednesday that it is pulling the plug on one of the most influential video game titles of the new century.
Activision Blizzard Inc., which also produces the "Call of Duty" series, is ending the "Guitar Hero" franchise after a run of more than five years. The move follows Viacom Inc.'s decision in November to sell its money-losing unit behind the "Rock Band" video games. Harmonix was sold to an investment firm for an undisclosed sum. Harmonix, incidentally, was behind the first "Guitar Hero" game.
Game industry analysts have long lamented the "weakness in the music genre," as they call it – that is, the inability of game makers to drum up demand for the products after an initial surge in popularity in the mid-2000s. Music games are often more expensive than your typical shoot-'em-up game because they require guitars, microphones and other musical equipment. While extra songs can be purchased for download, this hasn't been enough to keep the games profitable.
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:14 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Guitar Hero Over: Iconic Video Game Gets The Ax
NEW YORK �\ These days, guns are more popular than guitars, at least when it comes to video games. The company behind "Guitar Hero" said Wednesday that it is pulling the plug on one of the most influential video game titles of the new century.
Activision Blizzard Inc., which also produces the "Call of Duty" series, is ending the "Guitar Hero" franchise after a run of more than five years. The move follows Viacom Inc.'s decision in November to sell its money-losing unit behind the "Rock Band" video games. Harmonix was sold to an investment firm for an undisclosed sum. Harmonix, incidentally, was behind the first "Guitar Hero" game.
Game industry analysts have long lamented the "weakness in the music genre," as they call it – that is, the inability of game makers to drum up demand for the products after an initial surge in popularity in the mid-2000s. Music games are often more expensive than your typical shoot-'em-up game because they require guitars, microphones and other musical equipment. While extra songs can be purchased for download, this hasn't been enough to keep the games profitable.
The music genre of games has had a good, long run. Nothing lasts forever.
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:18 pm Post subject:
Boy bludgeons mom with hammer over PlayStation
If you�fre not keen on hearing of video game related violence – particularly the especially grisly sort, I recommend you read no further. A quite obviously mental 16 year old boy has confessed to murdering his mother in a most gruesome manner.
Why? She took away his Playstation as means of punishment; a chastening that would prove to be fatal.
After a heated, 90 minute argument with his mother, Rashida Anderson, 16 year old Kendall Anderson snuck in to her bedroom and bludgeoned her with a a claw hammer in her sleep. When the 20 or so brutal strikes failed to kill her, he dragged her downstairs and tried to cremate her in the kitchen oven. When that too failed, he savagely beat her to death with a the leg of her chair. HE then tried to hide her broken body in an alley behind his house.
Philadelphia police homicide detective Thorsten Lucke, reading the boy�fs confession said the boy showed some remorse, saying �gIf I could, I would not do it again. I really miss my mom . . . she was the only person who cared for me."
Well, I�fm sure your cell mate bubba�fs going to care for you plenty, kid. This is yet another senseless killing with only the most tenuous link to videogaming. While a games console may have been a catalyst, there is obviously something very wrong with this boy – and his violent tendencies would have been triggered by something else at some point. Like Rock �en Roll music, reefer madness, or those dang-blasted comic books all the kids are reading!
Playstation. It only does everything. Like make psychotic loonies kill their moms.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:24 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
^ Jeez.
Prison is way too lenient for this fool... But that's all he'll get.
Absolutely nuckin' futs. It's disturbing that whether it's an inner city youth or a rural redneck, people are so utterly devoid of coping skills that deadly violence is often considered an appropriate response to the most menial of issues.
Absolutely nuckin' futs. It's disturbing that whether it's an inner city youth or a rural redneck, people are so utterly devoid of coping skills that deadly violence is often considered an appropriate response to the most menial of issues.
Alcatraz needs to be reopened... Or Devil's Island.
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I've played the first three titles in any case so I've been waiting to play Yakuza 4. 
