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Rock Band 4 Developers Admit to Giving Their Own Game Positive Amazon Reviews

CraveOnline: "Harmonix have now admitted that their own employees gave Rock Band 4 positive reviews on its Amazon page."

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Da Ill One3527d ago

It's Actishitsion, this doesn't surprise me, not one bit.

Zichu3527d ago

Wait... What does Activision have to do with this?

CowbopBeboy3527d ago

Activision handle Guitar Hero. Harmonix is both the developer and publisher of Rock Band.

iliimaster3527d ago (Edited 3527d ago )

im sure anyone would do this to their own game they worked on if they could? no surprise here , plus who reads one review and decide its usually a youtube video plus reviews for me that is

CowbopBeboy3527d ago

1: You're not allowed to under Amazon's Terms of Service, and 2: Pretending to be a consumer in order to write reviews on your game is an under-handed tactic that you shouldn't be condoning. Not everyone looks to YouTube and gaming websites for review scores.

OB1Biker3527d ago

So much for people giving too much credit to others opinions pieces they call 'reviews' nowadays. I feel this is just a tip of the iceberg.

user66660473527d ago

All Devs do this. Even the ones that don't need to.

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CRKD and Gibson Team Up For a New Guitar Controller

CRKD and Gibson have teamed up to produce a completely new Guitar Controller for use in Rock Band, its successor Fortnite Festival, and Guitar Hero.

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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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-Foxtrot1303d ago

"to create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite"

Really? Jesus...

Jin_Sakai1303d ago

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

Rachel_Alucard1303d 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.

-Foxtrot1303d 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.

XbladeTeddy1303d ago (Edited 1303d 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.

MadLad1303d 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_Alucard1303d ago (Edited 1303d 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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porkChop1303d ago

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

Ausbo1303d ago

Fortnite support studio. Unbelievable

BlaqMagiq11303d ago

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

TheColbertinator1303d ago

Too bad they won't produce new instruments

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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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