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Activision Kills Guitar Hero, Diablo III Not Coming This Year, Bungie's New Game

Posted on Wednesday, February 9 @ 14:43:31 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

Following layoffs in Vicarious Visions over the last several months, an Activision investor press release now confirms the death of the Guitar Hero franchise:

Due to continued decline in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero business unit and discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game for 2011. The company also will stop development on True Crime: Hong Kong™. These decisions are based on the desire to focus on the greatest opportunities that the company currently has to create the world's best interactive entertainment experiences.

It also seems that Diablo III will not see a release date this year, regardless of GameStop's pending release date for the game of November 2nd, 2011:

Since Blizzard Entertainment has not confirmed a launch date for its next global release, the company's calendar year outlook at this time does not yet include a new game from Blizzard in 2011.

Activision, after seeing their numbers bolstered by Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, will be focusing their efforts on those franchises instead.

Bungie's new title also seeks to rake in the cash, as "a new property from Bungie and an innovative new universe with broad appeal that will be revealed at Toy Fair later this week and will bring the world of toys, video games and the Internet together in an unprecedented way".

Activision has earned a net income of $418 million dollars this year, compared to last year's $113 million.

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Comments

LinksOcarina
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Feb 9th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
So basically, they are killing Guitar Hero and True Crime so they can make more WoW and CoD.....ugh....

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whoisme
Joined: Apr 2009

Posted: Feb 9th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
New IP is hard to come by these days. So yay... more of the same

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Feb 9th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
WHAT THE FFFFFUUUUUUUU--!!!

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TheDiesel
Joined: May 2009

Posted: Feb 9th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I can understand Guitar Hero getting the Axe [though I'm not pleased with it], but why True Crime? That franchise's new title looked super promising and had a lot of potential: then they just axe it. God, I know I should know better since it's Activision, but I was honestly looking forward to TC:HK.

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madster111
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Feb 9th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
They're getting rid of GH and True Crime for more CoD.

You ****ing ****s. See how good your profits are when all the kiddies who buy CoD buy Crysis 2 instead this year.

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Odbarc
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Feb 9th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
No D3 this year? I'd smash someone else's Guitar Hero peripheral too.
Also, is that Miley Cyrus or a camel-toe-less copy?

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UpAndAtThem
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Feb 10th, 2011 at 6:00 am
If anyone actually thought Diablo III would come out on time, they really don't know Blizzard.
If you really need your Diablo fix, and you haven't already done so, just download Torchlight, that should help you hold out a little longer.

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Masterwabbit
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Feb 10th, 2011 at 8:38 am
Is Activision trying to vie for the not-coveted "Worst Company of the Year" award?

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