Death Of A Video Game: Guitar Hero
Remember a while back when everyone learned how to play the guitar using 5 colored buttons? Everyone was jumping on the guitar game bandwagon, even sporting Guitar Hero competitions and numerous Youtube videos. Well, as the years rolled by, time has not been kind to video game developers at Activision and the unemployment numbers just went up a few.
Activision has hit DJ Hero developer Freestyle Games with severe layoffs and axed the Guitar Hero series, Eurogamer understands.
United Front's open world game True Crime has been cancelled, sources have told Eurogamer.
An announcement is expected tonight ahead of the publication of Activision's financial results.
In December last year Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said Guitar Hero, and the music genre, had a future following dismal sales of Warriors of Rock.
"It's no secret that not just Guitar Hero, but also Rock Band, and the music category in general, do not have the same mass appeal today that they did a few years ago," he said.
"That said, I think that we would be foolish to not try and build on the strength of the Guitar Hero brand, because as you said, it's a pretty strong brand with great recognition and great likeability, and there's a lot to work with there.
Now, the incredible performance (only need to watch a couple of minutes to get the idea of how difficult this game can be):
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