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He projected The Beatles: Rock Band to hit 1 million copies sold for the month, with Guitar Hero 5 tallying 800,000. Those numbers might come as a shock to Dan Rosensweig, president and CEO of ...
Beatles: Rock Band outsells Guitar Hero 5 in Sept. MTV Games' Fab Four tribute shifts 595,000 units in opening month, nearly 100,000 more than Activision's flagship contender; Abbey Road DLC out ...
The battle of the virtual bands is officially on, and this time it pits the biggest-selling music game franchise in the world against the world’s biggest-selling band, the Beatles. Activision ...
As album sales soften and the industry turns to alternate ways to get music to fans, the battle between the big music video games has become increasingly heated, and new sales figures indicate The ...
The month’s top-selling game, Halo 3: ODST, sold 1.5 million units, nearly three times as many as The Beatles: Rock Band. However, Guitar Hero 5 came in a little behind the Beatles game, selling ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A screenshot from The Beatles: Rock Band. Credit: MTV Games. The ...
The Financial Times reports that Beatles representatives met with both Activision, makers of Guitar Hero, and MTV Games, which puts out Rock Band, to discuss the possibility of a Beatles-themed ...
This week's Trendrr chart takes a look at Twitter buzz surrounding the current epic battle of the video games: "Guitar Hero 5," released on Sept. 1, and "The Beatles: Rock Band," released this ...
The high-tech battle of the bands between video games “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” is about to heat up — and the latter is enlisting the help of would-be DJs and a pa… ...
“The Beatles: Rock Band,” like “Guitar Hero,” will retail for about $60. But consoles cost $200-$300, and the instruments needed to play the game run from $30-$100 apiece.
Two music heavyweights went head-to-head this September. Both The Beatles: Rock Band from MTV/Harmonix and Guitar Hero 5 from Activision were released in the same month, but both offering two very ...
But the folks at Activision aren't falling for the Fab Four so easily. In the other corner, we have Guitar Hero 5, due 1 September (eight days before the release of The Beatles: Rock Band).Ballsy, huh ...