Activision's Guitar Hero business unit has a new boss, who's not the same as the old boss -- former COO David Haddad is taking over the post after CEO Dan Rosensweig left the company. Haddad was the head of Vivendi's Sierra Online division back in the day, but started working with the Guitar Hero group after Activision merged with Viviendi back in 2007.
Rosensweig is off to join Chegg.com, a company that specializes in online textbook rentals and has recently put together more than $160 million in investor funding. There's a rumor going around that Rosensweig got fired (presumably for the recent decline in the genre's sales), but Activision's Dan Amrich says that's simply not true, and that the move was completely voluntary. Either way, there's a new sheriff in plastic guitar town, and we'll see how he deals with any bandits that come a-ridin' through.
Reader Comments (31)
Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 10:37PM Tiptup300 said
HAHAHAHA, look at the picture really closely. The les paul looks freaking ginormous or Slash is now a midget.
The SG has a neck freaking longer then a CELLO! The dots are 100% wrong, 3,5,6,7,10,12,14,16 HAS TWO DOTS WTF?
AND OMG, the les paul now has 16 frets!
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The SG has a neck freaking longer then a CELLO! The dots are 100% wrong, 3,5,6,7,10,12,14,16 HAS TWO DOTS WTF?
AND OMG, the les paul now has 16 frets!
Posted: Feb 3rd 2010 9:30PM VaultBoy said
@Tiptup: No if you look closer it looks like a solid 22, his hand is covering 5 or 6 of them. Also, GH3 wasn't lauded for its anitomacal correctness. They all look like charicatures. I am actually ashamed of myself that I wasted the time to look and count them out. That's thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, and another ninety used to type this reply. Bollocks!
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 9:19PM I AM IRONHIDE said
The first thing that came up in my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5QPzgbQ-cE
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 10:53PM (Unverified) said
maybe now that GH has a new boss GH wont suck ass...i bet they will but who knows
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 9:29PM Robot Overlord said
at first i read it as though they replaced Kotick, and I was happy for a few brief moments
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 9:36PM (Unverified) said
Bobby, did this guy shove a guitar up your ass before he left?
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 9:35PM (Unverified) said
It's good you're sorry, but we still have to downvote you.
Nothing personal.
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Nothing personal.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 9:46PM (Unverified) said
Downvoted because Kotick upvoted. (two can play at that game)
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 9:39PM (Unverified) said
It doesn't mean we hate you, just that it's SOP around here.
Captain Planet can help you with your computer.
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Captain Planet can help you with your computer.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 10:14PM (Unverified) said
Joystiq and Kotaku must have the same guy writing their guitar hero jokes
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2010 10:38PM (Unverified) said
I glanced at the title, and read "Activision CEO replaced." This was followed by joy, than disappointment as I realized it wasn't the case. But some of the joy came back when I read it was the Guitar Hero CEO. Maybe they will cut down on Guitar Hero. Maybe... maybe not...
(I need a blog)
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(I need a blog)
Posted: Feb 3rd 2010 2:07AM SolidSnakeEyes said
Maybe this new guy can make their DLC not suck ass. I'm not a RB fanboy, I have both games. GH has better charts but RB owns them in DLC.
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