List of songs in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
"" is the sixth main game in the "Guitar Hero" series, released by Activision to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii consoles in September 2010. The game was developed by Activision's subsidiary studios RedOctane, Neversoft, and Vicarious Visions; the latter provided support for additional features in the Wii version of the game. Following a decline in sales of music games in 2009, partially due to the large number of music games released that year, Activision scaled back their efforts in the "Guitar Hero" series. "Warriors of Rock" represents the final game developed by RedOctane and Neversoft. Both studios' respective "Guitar Hero" divisions were closed once the game was complete, with key personnel brought into Activision directly for future games. It was initially announced that Vicarious Visions would take over future game development of the "Guitar Hero" series, however due to declining music game sales, all further development of the "Guitar Hero" series was cancelled, until 2015 when "Guitar Hero Live" was released.
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The double release of "Guitar Hero 5" and "Band Hero" in 2009 were the last of the series' games to be released on PlayStation 2. It was expected that the 2010 entry for "Guitar Hero", "Warriors of Rock", would be the final entry developed by Neversoft, based on claims that Neversoft would be letting go of its "Guitar Hero" division, with Vicarious Visions likely poised to take over future development. Further industry rumors pointed at the closure of RedOctane Studios and Underground Development (the development studio for "Guitar Hero: Van Halen") as further results from the scaling-back; Activision moved the controller hardware development within their own division to continue to support the series, with RedOctane founders Kai and Charles Huang remaining with Activision. A week prior to these announcements, the "Guitar Hero" division CEO at Activision, Dan Rosensweig, left the company, leading to some speculation on whether Rosensweig's departure influenced these changes. Activision and RedOctane had trademarked the titles ""Guitar Villain"", ""Drum Villain"", ""Keyboard Hero"" and ""Sing Hero"". RedOctane originally trademarked the titles ""Drum Hero"" and ""Band Hero"", but the work performed towards the "Drum Hero" title was eventually folded into the gameplay for "Guitar Hero World Tour", and "Band Hero" became its own game. Later, as of October 2009, Activision reapplied for a "Drum Hero" trademark. Pi Studios, which had previously helped to port "Rock Band" to the Wii, had started work on the karaoke title "Sing Hero" before Activision cancelled its development. "Dance Hero" would be in development before being cancelled. Several ideas for the game later made it into "Shake It Up".