uhhhh, why?

[Noodle]

http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=14971

[WillieLee]

Monkees.

[ramtower]

Probably so that Harmonix doesn't become The Guitar Hero Company... They probably want to work on other games.

[Taxman]

Guitars and skateboards; very similar.

[Brian Reed]

I'm guessing there was something in the Activision purchasing Red Octane / MTV buying Harmonix deal that made hiring Harmonix for GHIII unattractive.

[Busman]

ATVI bought Red Octane, MTV bought Harmonix. One owns the code the other owns the name. w00t!

[ramtower]

I'd forgotten that they'd been bought by two separate companies...