Rumor: Details about Activision's DJ Hero

by JC Fletcher { Sep 16th 2008 at 12:40PM }

Kotaku claims to have received some early info about DJ Hero, which we knew was coming since Activision trademarked the name back in February. According to their source, B-boy developer FreeStyleGames is developing a turntable-based music game with a musical mashup theme. Of course, we don't know if this game would come out for Wii if it turned out not to be just a rumor, but we would hope that Activision knows that Wii owners will give them money.

The controller will (assuming any of this is real!) include a turntable, three buttons, a crossfader, and a "sound effects dial." It is designed for use in a lap, but may include legs so that it can stand on its own. Guitar Hero controllers will also work with the game for versus mode. The music used in the game will be mashups of licensed hip-hop and rock tracks.

Will this be different enough from Beatmania to sell well? Or similar enough to Beatmania, like Guitar Hero is to Guitar Freaks, but with licensed American music and more advertising? Oh, and in case you were wondering, the image above is the Scratch Blaster, a homemade turntable controller for Guitar Hero.

I want to read about Guitar Hero all ni-i-ight, and eat Guitar Hero cake!

Tags: activision, dj-hero, music, rhythm, turntable

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

?kIlLeR BuNnY? @ Sep 16th 2008 12:51PM

1/2 to comment!
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bhengh @ Sep 16th 2008 1:19PM

Wouldn't the controller need to have 2 turntables, especially if it includes a crossfader?

Abscissa @ Sep 16th 2008 3:28PM

No, you only ever adjust the turntable of the "next" song, never the currently playing one (Unless you want to do scratching, but that usually involves an extra third turntable, from what I hear). So the one turntable will probably adjust the "next" song, and once you crossfade it all the way over, the turntable will suddenly represent the new "next" song.

It would never work for real DJing, but it could work in a game.