Guitar Hero killed off, True Crime cancelled, new studio to work on Call of Duty
The publisher today announced – during its December quarter and calendar year 2010 financial results call – that due to a steep decline in the music genre, the IP that has been with us for so long, giving us all kinds of plastic instruments to store in places we don’t have, has been killed off. This has also affected the DJ Hero franchise, which has reportedly been scratched to death as well.
During said call, it was also announced that the development of United Front’s True Crime: Hong Kong, supposedly to be released this year, will cease. A pretty bold move from the publisher given the game had been in development since 2009. Then again, it hadn’t really been shown to the world except for the glimpse we caught at 2010′s E3 so quite frankly, we’re not entirely sure what we’ve missed out on.
As if the Call of Duty franchise didn’t have enough studios to work on it, Activision president Bobby Kotick also made reference to “Beachhead,” a new internal studio that will join the current four (Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Sledgehammer, Raven) working on the franchise. However, Beachhead will only focus “on the development of an innovative new platform and services for Call of Duty,” with Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg saying it “will create a best in class online community, exclusive content… to supercharge the online gaming experience like never before.”
To top it off, a new, free to play Call of Duty game was also announced, for the Chinese market, although it shouldn’t expect it to be released until 2012.
http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2011/02/09/guitar-hero-killed-off-true-crime-cancelled-new-studio-to-work-on-call-of-duty/
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-iTurtle-Posted:
i remember when Guitar Hero 1 Came out. I got it for my birthday and had like 9 or 10 friends over and all we did was stay up, play that, an go outside and play manhunt :D sigh. Ill miss those days
calebeastwoodPosted:
personaly i dont care about GH it kinda sucked but i mean i still have true crime 1 LA and 2 NEW YORK on my ps2 the second had amazing graphics 4 ps2 so for them to cancel that even after it being worked on for 2 years now i dont think its permanent they might finish and release it some other year cuz i dont think they would flush 2 years of hard work and MONEY down the drain permanently
manss2001Posted:
CRYS1SX18 treyarch blows iw is way better, have u ever even looked at the cod5/bo .ff files? there coding is siht
And to mention, their graphics are 3x better to kick it that much further...
ExplodePosted:
It is quite a shame they are going to stop it after all these years, guitar hero is such a large franchise as well.
-Ben-Posted:
mnm9598 No offense to anybody that loved GT Hero, but i couldve seen it comingyeah after areosmith it was dead
spy4561Posted:
damn't I could care less If GH goes but not True Crime? :( I was looking forward to that considering I still have True Crime New York on my Xbox1
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