KONAMI Files Lawsuit Against MTV, Viacom, and Harmonix

Ok we all know you’ve been busy banging your drums, playing your toy guitars, and losing your vocals to the worlds hottest rockstars’ in what was to be known as the revolutionary game Rock Band. But it might not have been as revolutionary as we thought. Through out the downloading of add-on songs and the thousands if not millions of hours playing Rock Band a lawsuit has surffaced; stating that Rock Band has an uncanny resemblance to KONAMI’s 1999 game Guitar Freaks. Wait a minute. There was a guitar game before Guitar Hero? Apparently yes there was…

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Drum Revolution and Guitar Freaks of KONAMI Ldt. Respectively

With these two games KONAMI plans to file a lawsuit against MTV, Harmonix, and Viacom. This lawsuit will compinsate for the losses of KONAMI, which had pattents for the guitars in Guitar Freaks. Also this would make Viacom stop producing more of these guitars and drums. As these infringe patents of KONAMI. As for now all we can do is hope they settle on an agreement so our drum sets can be fixed if they break.

By Alex Bernhardt