Bobby Kotick reveals Guitar Hero: World Tour with Paula Abdul and Tony Hawk

I can't watch this video - it makes me die inside every time I see it. The first 25 seconds are really all you need, but if you want to watch a trainwreck I've included the rest.

This is from the Wall Street Journals D Conference in May 2008. It's a conference created by Walt Mossberg, who ran the AllThingsD, which was the technology section of the WSJ. It's an executive level networking conference for people who are interesting in investing in technology, not actually using it. In 2008, the conference was called D6 (it was the sixth one in a row, geddit?) and much of the stage presentations were recorded by the WSJ and put on their site. The conference still exists today - it's called D.LIVE and is invite only - but D6 was open to the press as well. Bizarrely, Activision and Bobby Kotick decided that the best place to reveal Guitar Hero: World Tour was at this low-profile investor conference. Activision had just been merged with Vivendi (aka the illuminati), and Guitar Hero was still a massive franchise - so maybe it was just a weird time for them? Regardless, the result is this terrifying video that should be preserved for the ages.

When was the last time you saw Bobby Kotick being on stage, huh?

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