Activision Kills Off RedOctane Division, and with it Guitar Hero
Wow, just wow. I’m speechless at the news that Activision has announced they’re shutting down their RedOctane division which makes made the fantastically popular Guitar Hero game.
They made this decision primarily due to it having become a money-losing proposition. It was only a few years ago that the Guitar Hero franchise had hit $1 billion in sales!
Farewell Guitar Hero – you were revolutionary. Let’s hope Rock Band sticks around for a while yet.
HP held a large press event this week to announce and show off their new webOS-based devices, in particular their brand new iPad competitor which is due . 
China is building a cloud computing and office complex that includes a mega data center primarily for cloud computing with the partnership of IBM. The complex will cover over 6M square feet with the initial data center space accounting for almost 650k square feet. That seems impressive but I thought they meant “Cloud City” not “Cloud Computing City” so I was less than impressed when I found out the complex wasn’t going to float in the clouds.
There are museums catering to nearly every interest imaginable, and technology and the sciences make up a rather significant fraction. Almost every major city around the world boasts at least one, but some in particular stand out for their unique, notable and wide array of exhibits.
