The “Break it Down” Blog

Warning: Guitar Hero World Tour Drums May Be Fault

Across the internet reports are coming in that the Guitar Hero World Tour drums are having issues.  Most of these reports are complaining about the cymbals registering extra hits or the pads not registering hits unless played very hard.  Today Activision confirmed that there are “sensitivity issues” with the drums and that they would be [...]

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Guitar Hero: World Tour Compatible with Rock Band Instruments

… but that won’t stop Activision (Guitar Hero publishers) from acting like children. Apparently the wording on the Rock Band games is essentially “compatible with most music game controllers”, while Activisions position is “Activision expressly prohibits the use of non-Guitar Hero controllers”… but they are still compatible. So these franchises agreed to make their devices compatible [...]

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Quantum of Solace Using Call of Duty 4 Engine

Thank the gods, a developer that is smart enough to reuse an existing engine and add enhancements to it instead of re-writing their own in a 2-year dev cycle and having the game suffer all sorts of hickups because of it. Treyarch, the badasses behind Call of Duty 5, are working together with Activision and bringing [...]

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Call of Duty 5 (World at War) has 4-Player Co-op

We discussed the new Call of Duty 5: World at War trailer already, it looked pretty sharp but given the history of how lame Call of Duty 3 was (it wasn’t horrible, just very “meh”) we weren’t excited… until today. First off was the announcement by Activision that Call of Duty 5 is going to include [...]

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Call of Duty 5: World at War (Not Sequel to Call of Duty 4)

For those of you, like me, that saw the announcement that Call of Duty 5 was around the corner and was blown away to see a trailer this fast, and shit a brick… reel it back in a bit. Call of Duty 5 is being done by a 3rd party studio (Treyarch - The guys [...]

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Guitar Hero 3 Wii Refund Offered

Brad Agdern sent in news that Activision has offered a complete $132 refund for Guitar Hero III for the Wii or a remastered replacement disk for folks that were put out by the audio on the Guitar Hero III not being Dolby Surround even though it was advertised as such. A pretty nice move considering the [...]

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Vivendi (Blizzard) and Activision Combine Into Mega-Publishing-Monster

Ted Regulski just sent in this landscape-changing news from the game industry: Activision, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) and Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi’s interactive entertainment business — which [...]

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