ROCKSTAR/TIMBALAND’S MUSIC APP BEATERATOR BACK ON TRACK FOR 2009 RELEASE
Long taken for dead, the latest quarterly report from publisher Take Two has listed Rockstar Games’ Beaterator as back on track for a release at an unannounced date before the end of October. For release on unannounced platform, as well, actually, though what exactly to make of that is still up for wild guesses.
The Beaterator project originally appeared in 2005 as a Flash based music sequencer on Rockstar’s website — a curious sideproject for the Grand Theft Auto maker — and was announced in early 2007 as an upcoming PlayStation Portable release, with producer Timbaland said to be on board to help produce the app’s sound samples.
Shortly thereafter, though, the game quietly slipped off Take Two’s schedule, and hadn’t been heard of since until today’s report. It’s platform, however, is now listed as To Be Announced, and the company hasn’t clarified anything in its on-going conference call, so insert your guess here: a PlayStation Network release on PSP or PS3? Now a DS app? Could it be Take Two’s iPhone debut?
Beaterator home [Rockstar, original Flash version]
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