That’s right after many Guitar Hero titles being released, Activision has driven the franchise into the ground and has now chosen to shutdown the Guitar Hero business.  With Activision trying to get as much out of the franchise as possible releasing as many games a year as they could added with the competition of the Rockband franchise, Guitar Hero which started it all is no more.  Along with the franchise, 7 Studios has also been closed down which was acquired by Activision in 2009 working on the DJ Hero titles.  Lawsuits have been made and it is a big but inevitable mess.  Next will be the Call of Duty franchise if I had to guess with now three different developers working on that franchise.  This has also lead to the discontinued support for any future DLC for Guitar Hero and DJ Hero after February.

The DJ Hero 2 demo will also have four tracks or mixes rather.  They are:

– The Pussycat Dolls (Featuring Busta Rhymes) ‘Don’t Cha’ Mixed With Pitbull ‘I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)’
– Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O’Donis ‘Just Dance’ Mixed With Deadmau5 ‘Ghosts N Stuff’
– MSTRKRFT Featuring N.O.R.E. ‘Bounce’ (Battle Mix)
– Estelle Featuring Kanye West ‘American Boy’ Mixed With Chic ‘Good Times’

DJ hero 2 is out October 19th for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii.  Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock comes out on September 28th for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii.

– Full Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Track-list
– Full DJ Hero 2 Track-list

-A Perfect Circle – “The Outsider”
-Aerosmith – “Cryin'”
-AFI – “Dancing Through Sunday”
-Alice Cooper – “No More Mr. Nice Guy”
-Alter Bridge – “Ties That Bind”
-Anberlin – “The Feel Good Drag”
-Anthrax – “Indians”
-Arch Enemy – “Nemesis”
-Atreyu – “Ravenous”
-Avenged Sevenfold – “Bat Country”
-Bad Brains – “Re-Ignition (Live)”
-Band Of Skulls – “I Know What I Am”
-Black Sabbath – “Children Of The Grave”
-Blind Melon – “Tones Of Home”
-Blue Öyster Cult – “Burnin’ For You”
-Bush – “Machinehead”
-Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?”
-Children Of Bodom – “If You Want Peace… Prepare For War”
-Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Fortunate Son”
-The Cure – “Fascination Street”
-Deep Purple – “Burn”
-Def Leppard – “Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)”
-Dethklok – “Bloodlines”
-The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants”
-Dire Straits – “Money For Nothing”
-DragonForce – “Fury of the Storm”
-Drowning Pool – “Bodies”
-Edgar Winter- “Free Ride”
-Fall Out Boy – “Dance, Dance”
-Five Finger Death Punch – “Hard To See”
-Flyleaf – “Again”
-Foo Fighters – “No Way Back”
-Foreigner – “Feels Like The First Time”
-George Thorogood and The Destroyers – “Move It On Over (Live)”
-The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”
-Interpol – “Slow Hands”
-Jane’s Addiction – “Been Caught Stealing”
-Jethro Tull – “Aqualung”
-John 5 – “Black Widow Of La Porte”
-KISS – “Love Gun”
-Linkin Park – “Bleed It Out”
-Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Call Me The Breeze (Live)”
-Megadeth – “Sudden Death”
-Megadeth – “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”
-Megadeth – “This Day We Fight!”
-Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne – “Paranoid (Live)”
-Muse – “Uprising”
-My Chemical Romance – “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”
-Neil Young – “Rockin’ In The Free World”
-Nickelback – “How You Remind Me”
-Night Ranger – “(You Can Still) Rock In America”
-Nine Inch Nails – “Wish”
-The Offspring – “Self Esteem”
-Orianthi – “Suffocated”
-Pantera – “I’m Broken”
-Phoenix – “Lasso”
-Poison – “Unskinny Bop”
-Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”
-Queensrÿche – “Jet City Woman”
-Rammstein – “Waidmanns Heil”
-The Ramones – “Theme From Spiderman”
-Red Rider – “Lunatic Fringe”
-R.E.M. – “Losing My Religion”
-Rise Against – “Savior”
-The Rolling Stones – “Stray Cat Blues”
-The Runaways – “Cherry Bomb”
-Rush – “2112 Pt. 1 – Overture”
-Rush – “2112 Pt. 2 – The Temples Of Syrinx”
-Rush – “2112 Pt. 3 – Discovery”
-Rush – “2112 Pt. 4 – Presentation”
-Rush – “2112 Pt. 5 – Oracle: The Dream”
-Rush – “2112 Pt. 6 – Soliloquy”
-Rush – “2112 Pt. 7 – Grand Finale”
-RX Bandits – “It’s Only Another Parsec…”
-Silversun Pickups – “There’s No Secrets This Year”
-Slash featuring Ian Astbury – “Ghost”
-Slayer – “Chemical Warfare”
-Slipknot – “Psychosocial”
-Snot – “Deadfall”
-Soundgarden – “Black Rain”
-Steve Vai – “Speeding” (Vault Version)
-Stone Temple Pilots – “Interstate Love Song”
-Strung Out – “Calling”
-Styx – “Renegade”
-Sum 41 – “Motivation”
-Tesla – “Modern Day Cowboy”
-Them Crooked Vultures – “Scumbag Blues”
-Third Eye Blind – “Graduate”
-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Listen To Her Heart”
-Twisted Sister – “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
-The Vines – “Get Free”
-The White Stripes – “Seven Nation Army”
-ZZ Top – “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”

The first time Activision confirmed the two titles during the company’s 2009 financial earnings report.

Expect the two new music titles to have “more great original music, new and innovative gameplay modes and a significantly enhanced social gaming experience,” and many more downloadable content.

DJ Hero is much more stylish and much flashier than Guitar Hero.

The only information that we have on the release of the titles (other than the late 2010 release) is that Guitar Hero 6 will be released shortly after DJ Hero 2.

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