{"id":9971,"date":"2011-02-10T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"activision-axes-guitar-hero-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9971-activision-axes-guitar-hero-franchise","title":{"rendered":"Activision axes Guitar Hero franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision killed the video game rock star. According to<a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/#!5756232\/activision-just-killed-guitar-hero-and-true-crime\" target=\"_blank\"> Kotaku<\/a>, the publisher has closed its Guitar Hero franchise, and dumped True Crime: Hong Kong after previously pushing its launch from 2010 forward to sometime this year.<\/p>\n<p>An official statement from the publisher says that, &ldquo;due to continued declines in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing&#8217;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&#8217;s best interactive entertainment experiences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rumour also has it that just about everybody at DJ Hero dev Freestyle Games has been sent packing.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&rsquo;s probably about time Guitar Hero was binned. The franchise has been choking to death on its own vomit since Guitar Hero III.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10947-Plug-pulled-on-Guitar-Hero-franchise?p=364421#post364421\" target=\"_self\">Discuss the demise of the Guitar Hero franchise<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GH, DJ Hero, and True Crime: Hong Kong chucked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}