Activision's Confirmed New Spiderman Games Are Coming, Alongside Guitar Hero, Call Of Duty and Tony Hawk.

Activision’s confirmed during a consumer call tonight that there will be new iterations Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and Spiderman by the time 2010 is done and finished.

The Call Of Duty title in development is believed to be set in Vietnam, and is being developed by Activision’s secondary CoD team Treyarch. Robomodo confirmed they are working with Tony Hawk again for a new title in that franchise.

Very little is known about the new iterations of Spiderman and Guitar Hero, though we assume E3 will bring them in large.

Activision’s also committed to new franchises, including a Dreamworks title named “How To Train Your Dragon”.

Hopefully There'll Be Less Franchise Milking From Activision All Around Next Year. We Can Wish, Right?

Hilariously, in an interview with MCV, Activision’s Guitar Hero brand CEO Dan Rosensweig has confirmed that there are already future iterations of DJ Hero, Guitar Hero and Band Hero in the works. Thankfully, those games aside, there will be fewer SKUs in the “Hero” franchise next year all together.

Hopefully this means an end to “Guitar Hero: Generic Rock Band No-One Cares About,” and Activision ploughing their resources into making their three music franchises better/different.

No Doubt Are Suing Activision Over Their Appearance In Band Hero.

Oh no, the whole Kurt Cobain thing is back again. No Doubt are suing Activision over their appearance in Band Hero, claiming they have been turned into a “circus act” after their likenesses are available for use in the game’s full 60 track line-up. According to No Doubt, their likeness was only supposed to be used in the game’s three No Doubt tracks.

Blimey Activision. The one-off thing with Kurt Cobain we kinda got… But for this to happen twice?

Taylor Swift: Officially Really Fucking Hot But Still Not As Good As The Dixie Chicks.

Hey Taylor Swift. We want to write really sexy things about you here but we’re prohibited by your age. Even if you are only 15 months younger than us, we still feel uncomfortable. So instead we’re going to talk about the new game you’re in, Band Hero. And its track list. Which is probably going to make the Guitar Hero faithful cry themselves to sleep; but it actually looks a lot better to us than the usual tosh they put out on these games.

You’ll even be able to import tracks and DLC from other Guitar Hero products. Bonza!

Obligatory: Yo Taylor, I’mma let you finish…

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Guitar Hero 5 -- It's Guitar Hero Alright.

We still can’t believe Guitar Hero 5 sold better than the fantastic The Beatles: Rock Band. It literally blows our mind. But thankfully Activision’s Guitar Hero business CEO Dan Rosensweig is on hand to explain exactly what happened:

“The number one thing about Guitar Hero is that it’s fun as hell — it’s focused on the guitar, and the variety and value proposition — and the reviews are spectacular. So I guess we’re the only ones not surprised.”

Hmmm. Dan went on to joke with GamesIndustry.biz that “internally we always talked about the Fab Five – Guitar Hero 5 – was going to beat the Fab Four.” Hahaha-no.

Pink Floyd: Good Album Covers, Rubbish Music.

We’ll admit that “Money” has an excellent opening and bassline. We’ll even go as far as saying that the cover for Dark Side Of The Moon is pretty iconic. What you’ll never hear us say is that we like Pink Floyd. Because we don’t. We’ve heard your stories about listening to the record on an old record machine while stoned up to the eye-balls and, quite frankly, we don’t want to hear them again. Boring pretentious music will always be boring and pretentious. Fact.

Hence why we’re campaigning against Pink Floyd’s “we’d consider it” response when questioned by the BBC regarding music games. We could even dive further into the interview and be all snide about how it seems the band would only consider it based on monetary reasons – but hey, we’re sure we’ve already pissed off enough people.

We’ll quit while we’re ahead.

*Inserts fingers in ears and screams “lala” before typical responses come flooding in.*

Here is an advert for Guitar Hero 5. It features Playboy bunnies and the frankly disgusting Hugh Hefner. We just don’t understand the point they’re trying to make here. Buy Guitar Hero 5 and you turn into a gyrating sex goddess? What?

Terrible.