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Viacom Ordered To Pay $383 Million To Rock Band Makers

Viacom is fighting an order to pay Rock Band makers Harmonix Music Systems $US383 million, or a bit more than half of the money sought by the former shareholders in a long-running legal dispute over unpaid bonuses.


October 27, 2011
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Harmonix Discusses The Future Of Rock Band, And The Relationship With Activision

Kotaku AU

Honestly, this interview — by Alex Navarro, ex-Harmonix employee — is one of the best I’ve ever read and absolutely deserves to be read in full. In this wide ranging interview with his former employers they discuss the past and future of Harmonix and Rock Band, and broach the subject of the relationship with Activision and Bobby Kotick.


September 21, 2011
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The $US131m Rock Band Lawsuit

Last year, Harmonix shareholders sued the Rock Band developer’s former owner Viacom for a ton of money. This week? Viacom sues them back. I am rubber, you are glue, etc, etc.


April 29, 2011
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Viacom Got A Smidge More Than $49.99 For Selling Rock Band Studio

When Viacom said vaya con dios to Rock Band and its studio, Harmonix, the price of sale was $US49.99. Actual retail price of the tax writeoff they got to take? $US115 million, with about half of that returned this year as a cash refund on past taxes. [Gamasutra]


January 5, 2011
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Rock Band Developer Sold For The Price Of A Copy Of Rock Band 3

A copy of the disc-only version of Rock Band 3 currently sells for $US49.99 at GameStop. According to The Wall Street Journal’s sources, that’s exactly how investment group Columbus Nova paid to take Harmonix off Viacom’s hands.


December 24, 2010
Nintendo

Rock Band Creators Gone From MTV, Taking Hits With Them

The people who make Rock Band and the breakout Kinect dancing game Dance Central have been sold by MTV’s parent company Viacom. But they can keep making sequels to those series, if they want to.


November 12, 2010
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Rock Band Will Still Be Rock Band After Harmonix Is Sold

Viacom, like any good media conglomerate, loves big margins… and it cannot lie, you other investors can’t deny that when a subsidiary walks in with itty bitty net earnings you’ve got to sell it…


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MTV Owners Plan To Ditch Rock Band Creators

Viacom today said they plan to sell the company behind Rock Band, Kinect’s Dance Central and the original Guitar Hero.


August 3, 2010
News

Xfire Sold Off, Development Team Leaving

Two communications today from Xfire, the social networking tool for PC gamers, indicate that the service has been sold off and most of its development team will be leaving as a result. Details other than that are sparse.


March 10, 2010
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Rock Band 3 Revolutionises The Music Genre This Christmas

Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman officially outed Rock Band 3, due for release this Chrismas, when it will “will innovate and revolutionise the music genre” all over again.