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During today's Activision earnings call, the largest third party publisher in North America and Europe dropped a number of bombshells, including the death-like coma of the Guitar Hero franchise, the cancellation of True Crime: Hong Kong, and the likely no-show of a new Blizzard title this year. However, between these larger stories Activision made a number of other announcements as well as some observations on the larger state of the game publishing industry.

Mirroring comments made by Take-Two Interactive's (the parent company of 2K Studios) Strauss Zelnick last year, Activision bemoaned the plight of lower profile games. "Sales of mid-tier titles are being squeezed out," according to the publisher, as non-triple A and non-hardcore titles significantly underperformed sales expectations. This is likely in reference to a number of sales duds published by Activision last year, including Bizarre Creation's Blur, Raven Software's Singularity, and High Moon's Transformers: War for Cybertron, among others.
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Cataclysm is supposed to be selling well. I don't think we need all these Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Band Camp hero games. Good riddance. Hopefully Activision can put its developers to better use and quit riding blizzard.
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you just keep on trying 'till you run out of cake.
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trailz wrote:Band Camp hero
Damn, sounds like fun!
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ive never counted WOW as a activion game
its a blizzard game in my world

Im getting the feeling that is the way they are trying to push things
all of there games to a live subscription based game like WOW

the problem is when the shine wares off of the COD games then they are going to be in a real bad place
as far as console gaming is concerned
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