Via Scoop.it – Social Music Gaming

Recently MXP4, a Paris-based company that specialises in music games, and EMI, one of the worlds largest record labels, announced an agreement that will allow MXP4 to release revenue …
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Via Scoop.it – Social Music Gaming

Less than a year since Activision announced the franchise had performed its final farewell gig, Guitar Hero is to make an unexpected comeback. In fact, Activision never planned to kill it off in the first place, apparently. The publisher’s CEO, Bobby Kotick, admitted the company had only pulled Guitar Hero from the market in order to touch it up out of view and give the series a full relaunch to win back fans who were losing interest. Kotick let the news slip in an interview with Forbes, saying: “We said, you know what… we’re going to take the products out of the market, and we’re not going to tell anybody what we’re doing for awhile, but we’re going to stop selling Guitar Hero altogether. And then we’re going to use new studios and reinvent Guitar Hero. And so that’s what we’re doing with it now.”
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Via Scoop.it – Social Music Gaming
I like video games. I like turntables. I like DJ Shadow, I like the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, the Scratch Perverts. Yet I’ve thought DJ Hero was a stupid idea from the moment the series was first announced.
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Late yesterday at GamesBeat in San Francisco, game company accelerator YetiZen led a panel with top social and mobile game investors on the evolving dynamic of funding in the space. Norwest Venture Partners’ Tim Chang, Digi-Capital Managing Director Tim Merel and TinyCo CEO Suli Ali characterize an industry that’s both converging and expanding on a global scale.
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Chang gets more specific by describing some areas where he expects to see new ideas emerging. He sees the social and mobile markets narrowing daily active users bases to create higher average revenue per DAU. He describes a possible “mid-core” market for games emerging on mobile, likening it to Kabam’s success with Kingdoms of Camelot on Facebook. He also predicts that as HTML5 matures, the Asian massively multiplayer freemium games previously limited to download clients may find a new audience. On mobile, he sees potential in music games and gamification of health and fitness.

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