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Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has announced - apparently inadvertently - that DJ Hero is in development and due out in 2009.
Speaking to CNBC from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kotick mentioned the game in answer to a question about innovation.
"We have this product called DJ Hero coming out later this year, which is a turntable that you actually can play competitively and spin discs and mix songs," he said.
Up to now, DJ Hero has only been rumoured based on a trademark filing and speculation that B-Boy developer Freestyle Games had been bought out by Activision to work on it.
We were excited enough by the prospect to include it in our Coming Attractions series as one of the five most interesting music games of the coming year.
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mrmonkey1980
30/01/09 @ 17:51
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Sound slike too much effort. I'll just keep letting itunes mix my songs :)
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EVERYGAMER
30/01/09 @ 18:28
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Why?
Guitar hero I can understand but this? Next up piano hero where we give you a keyboard with 5 coloured keys! |
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Tetsuo_Shima
30/01/09 @ 19:15
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Aye, Ableton > 1210s, but 1210s are more fun. Shame I'm still rubbish with them.
"which is a turntable that you actually can play competitively and spin discs and mix songs" Sounds good, so long as it isn't gimmicky and simple; maybe a cheap substitute to CDJs. Question though - how can you mix CDs with but one turntable (you'd need to purchase two, or more)? And will it have a Guitar Hero style game at its core, or is it merely a watered-down DJ package? If it's the former then I hope they include a blend of decent licensed songs (no fucking RnB, please) and some lesser known or in-house ones. If it's a glut of overplayed, 'popular' chart songs then count me out.
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I read on Resident Advisor that Tiesto was to contribute (which his management then rapidly denied) ... although thats a massive NO in my book.
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx... Fingers crossed for Villalobos expert mode, and bang in some Squarepusher and Aphex for additional confusion. I'm with most people though, how on earth can you make something out of this. For me, I mix on Ableton nowadays so if its a bit of software that lets you mix then its a touch redundant on me. Also, at its core, Guitar Hero is effectively Dance Dance Revolution for the fingers, I can't see how you could apply that thinking to DJing. Maybe scratching, but thats about it. What would be good would be a spiritual successor to Music. Mix other peoples tracks, use samples in your own compositions, mix your own compositions.... |
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"Guitar hero I can understand but this? Next up piano hero where we give you a keyboard with 5 coloured keys!"
"Didn't Konami have something like this already? Beatmania?" I had it on the PS2 - was a keyboard with 5 coloured keys and a turn table on one device - you had to press the coloured buttons a la Guitar Hero and then scratch on the coloured lines a la Drums in Guitar Hero. I can see this being basically the same game with an updated controller and more modern songs... Cant imagine it being great tho =( |
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