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Harmonix's new game is a musical shooter. Seriously.

"Eight people shooting a musical weapon of one kind, eight people shooting a weapon of another kind. All these light beams, rockets and grenades shooting across the field in music and detonating in time and people jumping in time and zooming across the map and these beat-match traversal pads," says Drake. "It starts to look from a spectator perspective like a crazy gun ballet in a near-future world that's a little cyber-y."

Chapter113734d ago

Wow, this actually looks like fun! I can't w--

"Free to play"

Nevermind.

3-4-53734d ago

Chap, have you ever played Planetside 2, War Thunder, or Wesnoth ?

All great free to play games.

N7KIRK3734d ago

Never thought I'd see the age we complain about free to play games.

GamerRising3733d ago

This guys just being ignorant can't wait!

Baka-akaB3734d ago (Edited 3734d ago )

Pass , while i'm not requesting they only do rock band ... it pisses me off they dont pursue the rock band venture yet (and no blitz doesnt count) , with the huge catalogue they have , and after finally slaying the mediocre (post harmonix era) Guitar Hero ... and adding even more quality to it .

Yodagamer3734d ago

There isn't money in it anymore. Guitar hero killed their own brand and the genre even rock band 3 didn't sell as well as expected. They could go digital and cut out publishers who don't want to deal with music games anymore, but who would sell the instruments. Its a dead genre and that kinda makes me sad as I still play rock band and guitar hero.

_FantasmA_3734d ago

They can call it Homicide: The Musical.

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Harmonix is Joining the Epic Games Family

Harmonix, best known for their work on the Rock Band franchise, has announced that they're becoming a part of the Epic Games family.

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-Foxtrot903d ago

"to create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite"

Really? Jesus...

Jin_Sakai903d ago

Honestly can’t wait until this game dies. Only then will Epic do something new.

Rachel_Alucard903d ago

I don't get how people complained that Valve never released any games for years as an argument when defending Epic, and here's Epic just constantly revolving around one game, producing nothing else and trying desperately to keep retention on it by having over the top crossovers to stay in the news and social media. At least Valve knows how to make games instead of lucky shots.

-Foxtrot903d ago

It will never die sadly

If I have to be super blunt...there's too many idiots who buy into it.

I shit you not, I have someone on Twitter, a "friend" if you will, constantly complaining about needing money for gas, electric and to basically live, then when something Fortnite related comes out he then asks for money to buy the next Fortnite skins/pack. I mean who the f*** does that? "I need money to survive but if someone Fortnite related comes out I'll buy that instead rather than saving the left over money". The developers of this game must be laughing themselves all away to the bank.

I just think it's amazing how most of us as kids jumped from game to game, a variety of genres and experiences while today it's literally just COD, Fortnite, Fifa etc.

XbladeTeddy903d ago (Edited 903d ago )

@Rachel: How have Epic had lucky shots? You don't create a great game by being lucky you create them by being talented. I don't care for Fortnite, not my kind of game, but talent is talent. They made great games before Fortnite too you know.

MadLad903d ago

@Rachel

As someone who is far from a fan of Epic anymore ... was Gears, Unreal, and Unreal Tournament nothing more than lucky shots as well?

Rachel_Alucard902d ago (Edited 902d ago )

@Ted
@Xblade

They had almost 8 years of failures after Gears 3. They had failed to gauge any interest in IPs like Paragon and that Unreal Alpha they barely touched. Finally released Fortnite, but then they spent 3 months making a copy of a popular game at the time which was PUBG that everyone wanted to play. The problem was Pubg required expensive PC hardware and it was $30. But here comes fortnite with a free 2 play version, and all on console. It was the perfect chance to eat up what PUBG failed to do. They just got a lucky chance and seized it, that's it. It's no wonder they immediately canceled all their current projects including pushing STW off the focus over time to push their BR mode the game wasn't originally designed around. There entire company is built up all around Fortnite, but rather then make new games that bring in that same revenue, they would rather just buy up other companies and market share because I believe Tim doesn't trust his companies ability to produce another hit like Fortnite. If they are so talented then why do they not trust themselves to make new games with that great talent? At least Valve tries developing new games even with Steam protecting their revenue.

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porkChop903d ago

Oh ffs. Here I was hoping we'd get a new rhythm IP, but nope, just more Fortnite.

Ausbo903d ago

Fortnite support studio. Unbelievable

BlaqMagiq1903d ago

Which means we will never get a Rock Band 5. Sigh.

TheColbertinator903d ago

Too bad they won't produce new instruments

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'Defense Grid' Developers Working on New D&D Game

Defense Grid developer Hidden Path Entertainment is working on a new D&D game that promises an open-world, AAA experience for RPG fans.

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RaidenBlack1167d ago

AAA or not ... Please no GaaS

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Fuser From Harmonix Gets New Gameplay Presentation

Harmonix, the developer behind Rock Band and Dance Central, reveal some new gameplay footage for the upcoming DJ song-mixing game.

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