{"id":8149,"date":"2011-02-09T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8149"},"modified":"2018-07-26T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:14:11","slug":"guitar-hero-disbanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/guitar-hero-disbanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero Disbanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9932\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9932\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9932 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/bobby_guitar-S-e1428554661471.jpg\" alt=\"Activision Blizzard chief executive Bobby Kotick.\" width=\"390\" height=\"255\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activision Blizzard chief executive Bobby Kotick.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FEB. 9, 2011 \u2022 In the release of it financial results for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, Activision Blizzard reported that it\u00a0was disbanding Activision Publishing&#8217;s Guitar Hero business unit and discontinuing development on its Guitar Hero 7 game for 2011. The publisher is also intends to establish a new Call of Duty-focused development studio called Beachhead that Activision will use to create a digital platform for the Call of Duty community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Guitar Hero provided a great run for Activision but clearly the product was not able to support a huge team dedicated to providing full-fledged regular updates.\u00a0 However, this does not mean the entire franchise will die.\u00a0 The run came and went but for Activision there is still the possibility of releasing new Guitar Hero products on a less frequent basis.<\/em><i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB. 9, 2011 \u2022 In the release of it financial results for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, Activision Blizzard reported that it\u00a0was disbanding Activision Publishing&#8217;s Guitar Hero business unit and discontinuing development on its Guitar Hero 7 game for 2011. The publisher is also intends to establish a new Call of Duty-focused development studio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[313,78,66],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16678,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}