I admit I was surprised in reading this news. I guess pressing buttons on cheap plastic guitars only appeals to so many people. My guess is that this industry really relied on continued music purchase and that probably fell flat. They should open this up and let anyone create their own guitar hero tracks and just charge for licensing the original music

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Courtesy of Activision

“Due to continued declines in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing’s Guitar Hero business unit and discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game for 2011,” the company said in its most recent financial statement. “These decisions are based on the desire to focus on the greatest opportunities that the company currently has to create the world’s best interactive entertainment experiences.”

No details yet, other than it will most likely have the “retina” high-resolution display

The following may sound a little crazy considering that the iPad 2 has not even been acknowledged or introduced by Apple yet. But from what we’re hearing, the next iteration of the iPad — let’s call it “iPad 3″ to keep it simple — may be coming along sooner than people realize.

Earlier today, HP held a big event in San Francisco to unveil their latest products based around the webOS software that they acquired when they bought Palm last year. One of these devices is a tablet, called TouchPad. The device looks like an iPad, but it has better