Beaterator
Beaterator is a music mixer released in September 2009 by Rockstar Games for the PlayStation Portable and in December 2009 for iOS. Beaterator was developed by Rockstar Leeds in collaboration with Timbaland. The game is based on an Adobe Flash music mixing tool released on the Internet in 2005 by Rockstar and contains original new loops and sounds produced by Timbaland for Beaterator. The game allows the user to produce their own loops.
Beaterator
- Date
- 2009
- Language
- English · Spanish
- Genre
- music video game · puzzle video game
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Beaterator is a music mixer released in September 2009 by Rockstar Games for the PlayStation Portable and in December 2009 for iOS. Beaterator was developed by Rockstar Leeds in collaboration with Timbaland. The game is based on an Adobe Flash music mixing tool released on the Internet in 2005 by Rockstar and contains original new loops and sounds produced by Timbaland for Beaterator. The game allows the user to produce their own loops.
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There are three game modes: Live play, Studio Session and Song Crafter. The game has Rockstar Games Social Club integration for sharing music with the community. To celebrate the game's release, Rockstar Games held an event in PlayStation Home at the Listen@Home station in North America's Central Plaza on 16 October 2009. Attendees could play select user-uploaded Beaterator tracks during the event. On 10 June 2014, the GameSpy service was discontinued, taking with it Beaterator Social Club features.
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• Title — Beaterator • Developer — Rockstar Leeds • Publisher — Rockstar Games • Platforms — PlayStation Portable, iOS • Released — PlayStation Portable'iOS 7 December 2009 • Genre — Music, puzzle • Modes — Single-player • Director — Jay Capozello • Producer — Rich Rosado • Designer — Andrew Minghella • Programmer — Warren Merrifield • Artist — * Ian J Bowden • Rob Nelson • Composer — Timbaland
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The PSP version of Beaterator received generally favorable reviews, while the iOS version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Australian video game talk show Good Game reviewers, Jeremy Ray and Steven O'Donnell, awarded the game scores of 6/10 and 7/10, respectively.
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- 1.Beaterator for iPhone & iPod Touch Now Available from the App Store. Rockstar Games. 7 December 2009.
- 2.Smail, David. RockStar Games Beaterator Music Sessions. Blast. B Media Ventures. 12 October 2009.
- 3.Haywald, Justin. Beaterator PSP Review. 1UP.com. Ziff Davis. 2 October 2009.
- 4.Parkin, Simon. Beaterator (PSP). Eurogamer. Gamer Network. 8 October 2009.
- 5.Koehn, Aaron. Beaterator (PSP). GamePro. GamePro Media. 13 October 2009.
- 6.Future plc. Review: Beaterator (PSP). GamesMaster. 86. December 2009.
- 7.Newman, Joe. Beaterator review (PSP). GamesRadar+. Future plc. 28 September 2009.
- 8.Hopper, Steven. Beaterator - PSP - Review. GameZone. 19 October 2009.
- 9.Hatfield, Daemon. Beaterator Review (iPhone). IGN. Ziff Davis. 14 January 2010.
- 10.Hatfield, Daemon. Beaterator Review (PSP). IGN. IGN Entertainment. 29 September 2009.
- 11.Erickson, Tracy. Beaterator (iPhone). Pocket Gamer. Steel Media Ltd. 9 December 2009.
- 12.Mundy, Jon. Beaterator (PSP). Pocket Gamer. Steel Media Ltd. 12 October 2009.
- 13.Future plc. Review: Beaterator. PlayStation: The Official Magazine. 27. 79. 25 December 2009.
- 14.Kelly, Neon. Beaterator Review (PSP). VideoGamer.com. Resero Network. 16 October 2009.
- 15.Cowen, Nick. Beaterator video game review (PSP). The Daily Telegraph. 13 October 2009.
- 16.CBS Interactive. Beaterator Critic Reviews for PSP. Metacritic.
- 17.Ray, Jeremy. Good Game Stories – Beaterator. Good Game. ABC. 19 October 2009.
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