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Harmonix launches Kickstarter for remake of a rhythm-game classic: Amplitude

Harmonix Music Systems has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise $775,000 for a new version of a music-rhythm action game, dubbed Amplitude, in a franchise that it hasn’t revisited in 11 years.

The original Amplitude was the 2003 sequel to Frequency, which was Harmonix’s first controller-based beat-match game for the Sony PlayStation 2. The new game will be targeted at the PS3 and the PS4. The new campaign will be the latest test of whether nostalgic gamers can finance a relatively big project for a major video game studio.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.