Epic Games buys Guitar Hero creator to work on Fortnite

Harmonix will help Epic "to create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite" and "reimagine how music is experienced, created, distributed”

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Epic Games has acquired Rock Band and Guitar Hero creator Harmonix “to create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite”.

The acquisition, details of which were not disclosed, was announced yesterday (24 November) in a blog post on the Harmonix website, which read:

“Over the last 26 years, we have pushed ourselves to redefine how people experience and interact with music. From the earliest days of The Axe to Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Dance Central, our VR titles, Fuser, and everything in…

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