Jimi Hendrix to get his own Rock Band Game

Jimi Hendrix to get his own Rock Band Game

For all you Rock Band Fanatics and Jimi Hendrix Folllowers this could be your year according to the legendary rock stars stepsister. Janie Hendrix revealed in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that by the end of the year we could see Hendrix: Rock Band on the shelves.

Though Hendrix is one of the best guitarists of all time and viable candidate for his own Rock Band, I find it difficult to believe that Harmonix and EA would release two full-blown , single-artist rhythm based games in the same year-Green Day: Rock Band being the other. Oh, and lets not forget that Janie Hendrix may be Jimis’ stepsister but her connection into the gaming world is null in void, so let’s not count our chickens before they hatch.

Retailers Loosing Faith in PC Gaming

Retailers Loosing Faith in PC Gaming

According to Imagine Publishing, publishers of Total PC Gaming magazine, revealed that the magazine has seen a major decline in sales, apparently due to the coinciding decline in retailer interest in PC Gaming.

“I’m looking at Total PC Gaming at the moment, because although it’s a profitable magazine for Imagine, it’s future potential is limited because retailers and magazine stockists have lost faith with the PC games sector entirely,” said Managing Publisher Damian Butt.

Damian Butt continued in saying, “We have had fantastic support from our advertisers on Total PC Gaming, and outperformed our expectations, but I would much rather have a talented team working on a magazine where there is a greater future upside, such as our new launch How it Works, because it takes as much effort to make a magazine that generates a good profit as one that makes very little.”

Though this news points to PC gamers being a dying breed, however I would venture to say that the decline in magazine sells can be directly attributed by the plethora of gaming news available on the net.

RedOctane Axed by Activison

RedOctane Axed by Activision

Activision recently announced that they would be making some cuts, and as it turns out, among these cuts will be the creators of the popular rhythm based game Guitar Hero, namely RedOctane.

RedOctane is best known for being the publisher of Guitar Hero 1 and 2, and was acquired by Activision in the first quarter of 2006. Though this is just another blow to the gaming community handed down by our economic woes, only 30-40 RedOctane Employees will loose their job, those who worked specifically to design the iconic plastic guitar hardware will keep their jobs.

In Activision’s fourth quarter results conference call a couple of days ago, they announced that the company plans on drastically reducing the number of Guitar Hero SKUs by 15 in 2010. That, meshed with the staff cuts over at Neversoft might have hinted at these horrible events.