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DJ Tiesto Claims He's A Hero

Dutch DJ's newsletter claims he's involved in Activision's upcoming and unannounced DJ game.

I dunno, all the DJs I like have way more challenging facial hair than this guy.
I dunno, all the DJs I like have way more challenging facial hair than this guy.
There have been various pointers out there about a supposed DJ-focused music game coming from Activision. The most glaring confirmation still comes from Neversoft's Brian Bright, who said "Activision's doing a DJ Hero game..." back at the launch event for his game, Guitar Hero World Tour.

But just like all the Call of Duty sequel that was name-dropped at an ad conference last week, Activision has yet to make any official announcements, and the company just seems to keep on pretending that no one ever said anything, or that it's all "speculation" or something.

Well, the company probably won't have anything new to add over this latest mention of the game people keep calling DJ Hero. A regular e-mail newsletter sent out by DJ Tiesto--he's a pretty famous DJ, in case you're not into this sort of thing--claims that he'll be involved in whatever Activision's cooking up. British music site NME attributes the following quotes to the newsletter:

"We are proud to announce that has teamed up with the game developer Activision and their latest DJ project. I am very excited about this! I think this is a great way to introduce people to DJing.

"Maybe they realise it's not as easy as they think. I am sure this brings new fans to the scene, dance music is not far from hip-hop for example. Hopefully the music I have composed appeals to all kinds of fans!"


NME goes on to say that representatives for the DJ claim that no deal has been finalized to secure Tiesto's involvement, and that talks are ongoing.

Other discussion of the game's supposed content claims that it will be focused on mash-ups, which seems like a great idea, provided the developer has also invented a time machine that will allow them to release the game three years ago, when mash-ups still sort of mattered.
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