Summary
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Controversial AI-generated ads were market research for Activision Games.
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One of these ads was for a mobile game for Guitar Hero.
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Unfortunately, the game is not right now.
A controversial, AI generated Guitar hero AD was actually market research for a fake video game. Activision once groundbreaking music play franchise has been dormant for several years. Microsoft's manager Phil Spencer even treated recently the lack of new Guitar hero Games by saying that it was one of the “worst game choices” in their career.
Microsoft owns the rights to Guitar hero After his purchase of Activision Blizzard back in 2023, and Activision recently suggested that the series could make a comeback on mobile devices. But this month is Guitar hero mobile The announcement quickly drawn controversy to have AI -generated art – in itself a touching topic for both players and people in the gaming industry. The artwork was also very wrong for Guitar hero Series, with notes and guitar buttons that are the wrong colors and some notes that do not even match with their specified button.

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As it turns out, the new Guitar hero Games like this sharing advertisement are intended to promote does not even exist, according to a report from Eurogamer. Instead, the fake ad is part of a market research campaign Activision has created to see if fans would like to see a new Guitar hero Play one day. Activision has also released similar fake ads for two new Customs calls games as well as a new Crash bandicoot Spin-off with the title Crash Bandicoot: Brawl.
Fake Guitar Hero AD was part of the market survey
These fake ads also criticized their AI-generated works of art, and clicking on some of them takes users to a hollow mobile shop page listed by Reddit user Gaber_rego on Guitar hero subreddit. What comes next is a message saying that the game in question is not right yet but may be a day, followed by a quick questionnaire asking what players would like to see in a new Guitar hero game.
The idea of Guitar hero mobile Already divided fans who would rather want the series to return to consoles, and the fake advertisement's use of generative AI at a time when Video Games voters and artists are worried about being replaced by such technology, further controversy triggered when it was first published. While this advertisement turned out to be something other than market research for a hypothetical Guitar hero Games, the franchise could still return in an official capacity one day.
