Latest News
spacer View All spacer
 
February 10, 2010
 
Analysts: EA On The Right Track At Last
 
GamesBeat@GDC Confirms OnLive, GameStop, PlayStation Home Speakers
 
Ubisoft Q3 Sales Edge Down, As It Ramps Up Big Franchises
spacer
Latest Features
spacer View All spacer
 
February 10, 2010
 
arrow Television, Meet Games
 
arrow Two Halves, Together: Patrick Gilmore On Double Helix [1]
 
arrow The Road To Hell: The Creative Direction of Dante's Inferno [20]
spacer
Latest Blogs
spacer View All     Post     RSS spacer
 
February 10, 2010
 
Lineage 2 Interview - 'Freya Update Is Just a Beginning' - Pt.2
 
Fixing the GDC 2010 Schedule Builder [3]
 
Swashbuckling for Landlubbers: Why you may already be encouraging piracy! [20]
spacer
Latest Jobs
spacer View All     Post a Job     RSS spacer
 
February 10, 2010
 
THQ
Animator - Motion Builder (contract)
 
LucasArts
Senior Systems Designer
 
Trion Redwood City
<b>Sr. Brand Manager</b>
 
Telltale Games
Game Designer
 
Telltale Games
Senior Software Engineer - Core Technology
 
Airtight Games
IT System Administrator
 
Roblox
Apple Game Engineer - Kids' Virtual World
 
Roblox
Senior Web Engineer (front-end)
spacer
About
spacer News Director:
Leigh Alexander
Features Director:
Christian Nutt
Editor At Large:
Chris Remo
Advertising:
John 'Malik' Watson
Recruitment/Education:
Gina Gross
 
Feature Submissions
About
spacer If you enjoy reading this site, you might also want to check out these Think Services sites:

Game Career Guide (for student game developers.)

Indie Games (for independent game players/developers.)

Finger Gaming (news, reviews, and analysis on iPhone and iPod Touch games.)

GamerBytes (for the latest console digital download news.)

Worlds In Motion (discussing the business of online worlds.)

Game Set Watch (the Group's alt.game weblog.)
News

  GDC: EA To Publish Harmonix/MTV Game
 by David Jenkins
0 comments
Share RSS
 
 
March 7, 2007
 
GDC: EA To Publish Harmonix/MTV Game
Advertisement

GDC 2009 Coverage Sponsor:

Based in China with over 400 staff, Virtuos is one of the largest providers of outsourced production services to the games industry, specializing in 3D Art, Animation, Co-development, Engineering and QA.

Its international management team is led by Gilles Langourieux former Founder and Managing Director of Ubisoft China Studios and backed by Legend, the number one IT group in China.

Since its creation in late 2004, Virtuos’ clients include leading developers as well as 14 of the top 20 games publishers worldwide.

Website: http://www.virtuosgames.com

Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopoulos has revealed that Electronic Arts are to publish the developer’s first new game since being acquired by MTV Networks, without revealing any further details of the project.

Following Activision’s acquisition of Guitar Hero publisher RedOctane last year, developer Harmonix – who are also well know for other music related titles such as Amplitude, Frequency and Karaoke Revolution - were acquired by MTV in September, in a deal worth $175 million.

Speaking to consumer website GameSpot, Rigopoulos indicated that Harmonix had signed a deal with EA Partners, the company’s specialist unit for publish independent third party games such as Crysis and the forthcoming Half-Life 2 Black Box and Orange Box wth Valve.

When questioned on the nature of the new game, Rigopoulos would answer only that, “The project we're working on is by far, by far our most ambitious undertaking ever.”

His comments mirror similar ones made to Gamasutra by producer Dan Sussman, who said the new game "is a bigger and more ambitious endeavor than we felt we could pursue within the bounds of the Guitar Hero franchise."

Although Activision has subsequently handed development of the Guitar Hero franchise to internal studio NeverSoft (Tony Hawk), the series is the only one of Harmonix’s titles to prove a smash commercial success, despite the critical success of its earlier music titles.

Guitar Hero II on PlayStation 2 was one of the best selling titles of the Christmas period in the U.S. and the imminent Xbox 360 version is also expected to be a considerable success.
 
  [Next News Story] [View All]  
 
Comments

none
  
Comment:
 


Submit Comment