Viacom (NYSE: VIA) has found a buyer for Harmonix Music Systems, maker of its struggling video-game franchise Rock Band: investment manageme… Read More »
Viacom’s Dauman: Harmonix Sale Is About Focus; Digital Dollars, Not Dimes
By David Kaplan
Nov. 11, 2010, 7:38pm
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Viacom (NYSE: VIA) is currently in talks with several buyers for game developer Harmonix, said Philippe Dauman, Viacom’s president and CEO,… Read More »
Viacom Selling Rock Band Maker Harmonix; Profits Fall On Writedowns
By David Kaplan
Nov. 11, 2010, 7:20pm
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Viacom (NYSE: VIA) has had enough of falling sales for gaming brand Rock Band and so the company has decided to sell its maker, Harmonix. Th… Read More »
Viacom (NYSE: VIA), which has seen sales of its Rock Band franchise slow amid the gaming slump, is asking for a refund on its 2007 earnout p… Read More »
Rock Band, Guitar Hero Sales Slump Drops Game Industry Revs By Roughly 50 Percent
By Tameka Kee
Oct. 23, 2009, 10:24pm
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The Beatles: Rock Band may have trumped Guitar Hero 5 in terms of both unit sales and actual revenue, but less consumer interest in both fra… Read More »
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr helped *Microsoft* kick off its E3 keynote with a wave of harmonized sound: a trailer and gameplay footage fr… Read More »
@ E3: Paul, Ringo Whip Up Beatlemania With Rock Band Details
By Tameka Kee
Jun. 2, 2009, 12:35am
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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr helped *Microsoft* kick off its E3 keynote with a wave of harmonized sound: a trailer and gameplay footage fr… Read More »
Viacom’s Harmonix is breaking out of its annual development cycle for Rock Band this year to focus on the new Beatles’ game, due out in time… Read More »
Buried within Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) 10-K annual report filed yesterday with SEC is an interesting and elusive number: the earnout that the de… Read More »
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