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Things are lookin’ up for old Activision Blizzard. The publisher announced today that business is good, better than expected, even, resulting in a $755 million quarter for the company

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Guitar Hero, WoW & World At War Give Activision Better Than Expected Q3 [Business]

The combination of a new hardware model and lower price made PlayStation 3 the best-selling home game machine in the U.S. for the month of September 2009, the NPD Group reported today. NPD added that The Beatles: Rock Band outsold Guitar Hero 5 , saying that MTV’s Beatles game sold 595,000 units in total across the three platforms while Activision’s sequel sold 499,000 copies in total across its four platforms (which include PlayStation 2).

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NPD September: PS3 on Top, Beatles Beat Cobain

Just noticed this – the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero 5 , game only, is down to $29.97 on Amazon.com. Update: Looks like the deal is now dead. Sorry

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Guitar Hero 5 No Longer Half Off at Amazon [Update] [Dealtaku]

Earlier this week the appearance of a digital Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5 irrupted into controversy with Courtney Love and former Nirvana band members calling for Activision to patch the title. Now Love’s attorney is involved. “Ms

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Cobain Attorney Calls For Activision To Limit Musician’s Use in GH5 [Guitar Hero 5]

Guitar Hero 5 ’s inclusion of Kurt Cobain as a playable character is “vile,” said Courtney Love, widow of the late Nirvana front man, in a rambling Twitter rant early Thursday. “FOR THE RECORD I DID NOT APPROVE KURTS AVATAR FOR GUYITARHERO5,” tweeted the musician/actress. “I think Kurt would despise this game alone let alone this avatar.” Love also threatened to sue Activision for its inclusion of her late husband in the latest version of the popular music videogame.

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Courtney Love Calls Guitar Hero 5’s Creepy Cobain ‘Vile’

When packaging the latest videogame in a blockbuster franchise, you’ve got two choices: Go the extra mile and create a real piece of eye-grabbing art, or phone it in and assume gamers will buy based on the title alone. Examples of each approach follow in this week’s edition of Box Art Reviews

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Box Art Reviews: Guitar Hero Bores, Batman Goes Nipple-Free

While The Beatles are lauded with their own game, one of Britain’s other 60’s super-groups – The Rolling Stones – are just going to have to make do with a downloadable track pack for Guitar Hero 5. There are five songs available starting from today, all live versions. Sadly, not one of them is “Street Fighting Man”.

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Rolling Stones Shamble Onto Guitar Hero [Guitar Hero]

Yeah…so it turns out Guitar Hero 5’s ability to import songs from previous games isn’t as good a deal as we first thought. Turns out that, of World Tour’s 85 songs, only 35 can so far be copied over. That’s less than half

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Guitar Hero 5’s Song Importing Isn’t As Great As We Thought [Update] [Guitar Hero]

If you found the original video of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain reanimated for Guitar Hero 5 uncomfortable to watch, seeing his polygonal ghost prance about and sing the songs of Bush and Megadeth may simply be too much. This fan-created compilation (via Giant Bomb ) of cringe worthy Cobain moments, performing as Flavor Flav and Jon Bon Jovi, all alongside Xbox Live Avatars, a skeleton drummer and at one point two other Kurts, is both hilarious in its absurdity and disheartening

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Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge On Activision [Clips]