Vivendi SA is seeking as much as $431 million in a sale of shares of Activision Blizzard Inc., the world’s largest video-game publisher, said two people with knowledge of the [...]
A new book being released today talks to the creators of Guitar Hero and Rock Band to find out why the industry hit such a sour note after one year of off-the-charts [...]
Activision boss Bobby Kotick has reflected on the now-defunct Guitar Hero franchise in a recent interview with Forbes, which focuses on Activision’s innovations, successes and failures during Kotick’s tenure as [...]
Even the Beatles couldn’t work it out. Viacom last night sold out of its ailing video game franchise Rock Band a ‘ home to last year’s be-your-own-Beatle title a ‘ ending an ill-fated foray into [...]
Are music video games little more than one-hit wonders? Sales of the games, which allow players to be pretend rock stars, have fallen nearly 80 percent in the past two years, according to the Los Angeles Times [...]