In 2006, Activision acquired the "Guitar Hero" series from Harmonix Music Systems, as well as RedOctane, and chose Neversoft as the developer. Neversoft developed several games in the franchise, breaking several records with '. The games following ' would be developed by Vicarious Visions, developers of the Wii ports and "". In light of this, 50 employees were laid off on February 11, 2010. In May 2014 it was reported that Neversoft had been merged with "Call of Duty" creators Infinity Ward to create what was internally referred to as a "super-studio".