Guitar Hero Veterans Announce Plans for New Rhythm Game Revival

A radical of bushed crippled genre veterans has re-established the RedOctane Games brand, via a caller workplace acceptable to motorboat a caller Guitar Hero-style title.

If the sanction RedOctane sounds familiar, that's due to the fact that it was the archetypal workplace that partnered with Harmonix to make Guitar Hero backmost successful the aboriginal 2000s. That earlier mentation of RedOctane was past rapidly acquired by Activision (which besides yet unopen it down).

Now, this caller incarnation of RedOctane has been established arsenic portion of Embracer, and volition beryllium led by Simon Ebejer, who worked arsenic accumulation manager connected assorted Guitar Hero titles during the franchise's Neversoft heyday, earlier aboriginal moving connected to Vicarious Visions and Blizzard.

"This crippled won't beryllium Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Guitar Freaks oregon Rockband," RedOctane teased successful a connection today. "This is thing new. A bushed crippled built with love, by radical who care, with the assemblage astatine its halfway successful this fast-changing modern satellite we unrecorded in.

"We firmly judge the adept present is the assemblage and a caller procreation of improvement talent, the folks that person kept the lights connected these past fewer years."

Staffed by a premix of caller and seasoned developers, RedOctane's bushed task volition beryllium overseen by brothers Charles and Kai Huang, founders of the archetypal RedOctane, arsenic portion of a peculiar advisory board. Further details connected the game, including a sanction and task merchandise date, presently stay nether wraps.

Of course, this isn't the archetypal effort astatine a bushed genre revival. Back successful precocious 2023, Epic Games launched Fortnite Festival, a Guitar Hero-style mode developed by Harmonix (now a portion of Epic) that allowed players to pat on via modular controllers oregon much caller instrumentality accesories. The offering is inactive kept updated with play tunes, but has not attracted the aforesaid subordinate numbers arsenic Fortnite's main conflict royale modes.

"Music has done extraordinarily good successful Fortnite, but ironically, not truthful overmuch successful euphony games," Epic Games brag Tim Sweeney told IGN earlier this year, "more conscionable successful Battle Royale and elsewhere. Our adjacent measurement is to fig retired euphony astatine a ample scale." Now, it seems similar Epic Games and Harmonix has immoderate competition.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social