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Want another Tony Hawk or Guitar Hero game? Neversoft won't be making them

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Activision’s Neversoft studio has finally shut down after two decades of making games like Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero.

The company celebrated the sad event by burning an effigy of its logo and offering a huge Bowie knife to its employees. The staff of the Activision-owned studio are now part of Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward.

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Dean Takahashi

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.