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PowerGig destroys Guitar Hero Guitars in a volcano

E4G: Now this is when you can say that a company is really pushing their product by destroying their competition. Literally.

dkblackhawk505014d ago

Epic, haven't seen a company gone that far in a long time :D

mmoracerules5014d ago

In my opinion, i have not seen one company do this, at all!

Proxy5014d ago (Edited 5014d ago )

Is that an opinion or a fact?

But anyways, in my opinion there was a volcano in that video.

evrfighter5014d ago

they just exposed the biggest hole in the LoTR story.

Thrillhouse5014d ago (Edited 5014d ago )

In a world of shitty marketing, there still are these definitely unique gems.

poindat5014d ago

Holy shit that was incredibly money wasting, extremely dangerous, stupid, and damaging to the environment.... But that was some of the best damn marketing I've seen in a while! What it lacked in brains, it made up for in sheer awesomness :o

Ocelot5255014d ago (Edited 5014d ago )

NOW THIS IS MARKETING

should've thrown the CEO of activision along with those guitars

dkblackhawk505014d ago (Edited 5014d ago )

Couldn't agree more. Just watching the guitars being dropped into the volcano sold the product :P
Edit: lol at the CEO.

Hitman07695014d ago

Hahaha hilarious. On a serious note, I think this is a little bizarre and extreme, couldn't they have done a side-by-side comparison to intelligently display the upside of GIG vs GH instead? I'm not trying to down=play the dramatic effect this probably had but I wonder if it shows confidence or not in their product.

mmoracerules5014d ago

Yes yes...throw Bobby into the valcano and then Infinity Ward wil lbe back to normal.

SeanRL5014d ago

I'd like to shoot Bobby kotick in the knee.

Hitman07695014d ago

If you are being serious, that's a little extreme man take it down a few notches...

dkblackhawk505014d ago

Yeah but people have picked sides on Activision, so you got the people that want it down/killed and people who love it and others who don't care.

xX TriiCKy Xx5014d ago

and throwing a crapload of guitar hero controllers in a volcano isn't Hitman?

benger5014d ago

One Guitar to rule them all, One Guitar to find them,
One Guitar to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

big_silky5014d ago

Can't wait to find Powergig in the clearance section, right next to all the other off-brand, "me too" toy guitar games.

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GamingExcellence - Power Gig: Rise of the SixString Review

GamingExcellence - Functioning guitar brings nothing to the table; poorly-designed interface; half the songs are locked away until you play the campaign mode; dull campaign mode.

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PSXE's Worst Of 2010: The Dubious Distinctions

PSX Extreme: We believe in celebrating the year's quality rather than laughing at the stinkers. And yet, we also understand the failures and near-misses and "what if...?" titles are often quite popular topics of discussion and so, as a prelude to our GotY extravaganza, we give you a few PSXE Dubious Distinction Awards.

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Wired: The 10 Most Disappointing Games of 2010

2010 was the year we made contact with a lot of half-assed videogames. While there was much for gamers to celebrate over the past 12 months — and we here at Game|Life will be getting to that later — gamemakers also delivered an inordinate number of flops.

The following list isn't of the worst games of the year (such a list would be made up of Wii shovelware and movie games), but of the most disappointing titles, the ones that had great promise but fell way short.