Over $150 million hangs in the balance in the aftermath of MTV’s selling off of Harmonix earlier this year. MTV’s parent company Viacom has taken the former shareholders of the Rock Band studio to court over a refund of the bonus payments given out at Harmonix’s initial acquisition. Viacom is asking for $131,827,980 of the […]
Viacom’s looking like it really wants to cut all ties to the video game industry. A report out of MCV claims that MTV Games, another subsidiary studio of the media giant, was closed down after the sale of Harmonix. With little left holding Viacom in game development, it seems like if the corporation wants to […]
AllThingsD.com, a subsidiary of the company behind the Wall Street Journal, has indicated sources close to the deal between Viacom and investment group Columbus Nova confirmed that the latter acquired Rock Band-developers Harmonix for the total sum of $49.99, a price equal to the retail price of the recently released third installment in the Rock […]
Perhaps in response to the sales figures for both Green Day Rock Band and Rock Band 3 hitting below expectations, but Viacom announced last month that it would be selling off its majority share in music-rhythm developer Harmonix, a company it has held since 2006. The sale was confirmed last week, Columbus-Nova – an independent […]