Entries in ‘guitar’ (23)
News: Guitar Hero sales up year-on-year
72 per cent annual sales value increase suggests that there’s life left in the music category yet
News: More Hero discs due next year
But Activision plans to beef up online strategy to help current retail offering ‘live longer’ during 2010
News: Zane Lowe to front Guitar Hero push
Radio 1 DJ to offer celebrity endorsement and offer his 'expertise' to Activision
News: Rivals can't compete with Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero’s European boss jokes about the competition, but is very serious about growing market share
News: Guitar Hero cutting out the console
Bobby Kotick admits that firm is considering stand-alone GH SKU that doesn’t need a console to play
News: UK CHARTS: Guitar Hero wins Band battle
Activision’s music sequel outdoes EA’s The Beatles: Rock Band at top of the UK Charts
News: Guitar Hero pre-orders heat up
Publisher arranges ‘amazing’ Rolling Stones and World Tour incentives to drive sales of fifth entry in series
News: Activision: 'Music genre down significantly’
Publisher admits the genre is failing to captivate the market, though has plans to change fortunes
News: Music game revenues plummet
Analysis of NPD numbers show that Guitar Hero/Rock Band revenues have fallen 49% year-on-year
News: Xbox 360 wireless mics get standalone SKU
Microsoft’s formerly Lips-focused peripherals now targeting entire music genre
News: Guitar Hero Metallica bundle rocks on
Upcoming game to be packaged with faceplate and wireless controller
News: Guitar Hero outselling Rock Band 10:1 in Europe
Music franchise passes 34m track downloads; Is best-selling third party game in Europe and US
News: US: World Tour instrument pack wins at retail
Activision Blizzard’s full-price retail offering betters both guitar bundle and stand alone SKU
News: Gibson fails in Guitar Hero lawsuit
Patent infringement claims dismissed as game contains no “real musical instruments”
News: US: New Guitar Hero hardware SKU announced
Standalone drum kit to complement complete, guitar and solo game SKUs at retail
News: Guitar Hero III sales pass $1bn
Activision CEO Mike Griffith claims music title is the is the first to reach financial milestone
News: Konami bringing Guitar Hero to arcades
Surprise partnership formed to bring Activision-Blizzard’s world beating franchise to arcades
News: Modern Warfare 2 heads Activision’s 2009 lineup
Joypadless Tony Hawks, COD: Modern Warfare 2, Blizzard’s James Bond game and Guitar Hero 5 all revealed
News: Copyright infringing content chopped from LittleBigPlanet and Guitar Hero
Activision and Sony move to wipe user-generated content from servers for LittleBigPlanet and Guitar Hero: World Tour
News: Guitar Hero targeting musical instrument retail
Musical instrument outlets targeted by publisher Activision ahead of the release of Guitar Hero: World Tour on November 14th
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