{"id":2533,"date":"2011-02-09T22:42:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T03:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2011-02-09T22:42:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T03:42:49","slug":"activision-dropping-guitar-hero-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/activision-dropping-guitar-hero-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision Dropping Guitar Hero Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/185805_S\/Guitar-Hero-Van-Halen.jpg\" alt=\"Guitar Hero Van Halen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a financial conference call today, Activision\/Blizzard  announced it is dropping the Guitar Hero game planned for 2011. The  company is disbanding its Guitar Hero division in order to focus on more  profitable franchises like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to continued declines in the music genre, the company will  disband Activision Publishing\u2019s Guitar Hero business unit and  discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game for 2011,&#8221; the company  said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Activision Blizzard Inc. said Wednesday it lost $233 million, or 20  cents per share.\u00a0  Net revenue fell to $1.43 billion from $1.56 billion  in the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a financial conference call today, Activision\/Blizzard announced it is dropping the Guitar Hero game planned for 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}