Guitar Hero

By monchster Now, Activision, who brought you Guitar Hero, has  a new game out, DJ Hero. You can take a crack at being a DJ with a controller turntable. You can create your own beats and mix music on the new DJ Hero game. Now, Activision, who brought you Guitar Hero, has  a new game out, DJ Hero. You can take a crac...

By Scott Hillis I don’t necessarily think Activision over-estimated the size of the market for the game, as Bill at Dubious Quality posits. It won’t ever outsell one of the flagship Guitar Hero releases, but it should do at least as well as, say, one of the band-specific offshoots of Guitar Hero, like GH...

By Michael McWhertor Activision plans on shipping less product into the crowded music-game genre next year, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be getting new Guitar Hero, Band Hero and DJ Hero titles in 2010. (more…)

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DJ Hero's NPD numbers represent only a week's worth of sales, but I'm going to make some predictions about the future sales of this game. I don't think it's going to do that well. That game had "low sales" written on it at the concept level for a couple reasons. First: Not many people like or c...

By Alexander Sliwinski Activision may have "fewer SKUs" in 2010, but it still needs its Heroes to champion the financial cause. Guitar Hero brand CEO Dan Rosensweig tells MCV that the publisher is already working on the "next iterations" of Guitar Hero and Band Hero, and mentions that there will be "more" DJ Hero....

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By Alexander Sliwinski Activision has applied to trademark Drum Hero. Yes, your initial reaction is likely the same as ours: "Wait, how did Activision not do that already?" Good question, but apparently the Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, and Band Hero publisher only applied for the trademark in late October. This does no...

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One of the main reasons gaming is such a draw for so many people these days is that, like Kotick points out, “Whether it's DJ Hero or Guitar Hero or Band Hero or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, these are all products that give you hundreds and hundreds of hours of entertainment for good value.”

By Brian Warmoth Activision already has "Guitar Hero," "DJ Hero" and "Band Hero" under its wings, but a filing from the end of October indicates that they want "Drum Hero" as well. Though the claim was still being processed as of November 3rd, it clearly marks the company's territory for the potential titl...

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By Hodgi92 We have Guitar Hero, Band Hero and DJ Hero. So why not Drum Hero? Or for that matter Bass Hero or even Sing (Mic?) Hero? Well according to a trademark, recently filed by Activision, Drum Hero is what we’re getting. Obviously as this trademark is all there is so far, this is strictly rumour but I w...

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By cabboge My first impression of Activision’s DJ Hero was that they were selling out the Guitar Hero series on a whole new level.  Not that Guitar Hero: Metallica wasn’t a big enough sell out as it was. My first impression of Activision’s DJ Hero was that they were selling out the Guitar Hero ser

By roala Fallout 3 Uncharted 1 or 2 Metal Gear Solid 4 Little Big Planet Rock Band/Guitar Hero/DJ Hero (If you want to have good games for when friends come over, or if your are interested in music games) Playstation Eye is very cool, especially with Eyepet 

By dawnallred DJ Hero, however, looks to be a slight departure from the Guitar Hero series. Instead of the guitar controller, you will be using a turn table-styled controller pictured below. Amazon has the DJ Hero Super Bundle priced at only $114.99! Again, I think it’s an intro price, but WOW.

By RawmeatCowboy Article here DJ Hero I’m not afraid to admit that I feel like a badass when I play DJ Hero. In Guitar Hero I have fun playing the guitar, but DJ Hero really makes me feel like I’m in control of what’s going on. I know that if I took an actual turntable that I would [...]

By RawmeatCowboy Is there going to be one game in particular that comes around and saves the game music industry? Many were thinking that DJ Hero could do just that. It’s way too early in the game to know if DJ Hero will have the breakthrough power that Guitar Hero did, but one person is already claiming that DJ H...

By Xav de Matos According to Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz, the falling projections of peripheral games reflect both the casual consumer's decision to reduce spending on games, as well as the possibility that gamers are losing interest in the played-out rhythm genre.

Activision is rolling out DJ Hero downloadable content right out of the gate. This is standard, if not expected and explicitly desired, for music games. Activision and developer FreeStyleGames is charging $3-per-mix for the DJ Hero downloadable content, citing "additional creative w...

By Brian Crecente We're asking for a minimum donation of $10 to get in and get a door prize ticket. We will be giving away a huge amount of swag including more than 70 T-Shirts, a custom straight jacket, a Guitar Hero drum seat, a popcorn machine and Divinity Dragon knives.

Individual tracks for Guitar Hero 5 currently cost 160 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live, or £1.59 / €1.99 on PSN, whereas the first DLC for DJ Hero - a two-mix affair called Extended Mix Pack 01 - costs 480 MSP, or £4.79 / €5.99, suggesting individual mixes will run deeper up in your wallet yo.

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By Chris Ah, the Hero games. I really liked some of the Guitar Hero games and I’m looking forward to Lego Rock Band (not part of the same series, but at least the same idea). Mind you, I pretty much suck at these games, but still I find them to be enjoyable.

The currently announced downloadable content for DJ Hero will run you $3 per mix. By comparison, Guitar Hero 5's individual tracks cost $2. When I asked last week, Activision refused to comment on whether this pricing scheme would be applied to future DJ Hero downloadable comment, but an I...

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By Neil McCormick By Special Guest Writer – Daniel Lipscombe When Guitar Hero first launched in 2005, Gamers wer By Special Guest Writer – Daniel Lipscombe When Guitar Hero first launched in 2005, Gamers wer

A wealth of rhythm game news emerged out of Activision today, as the publisher detailed the first downloadable track packs coming to the just-released DJ Hero along with a rundown of the various tunes hitting Guitar Hero 5 across the next month. Guitar Hero 5 Downloadable Content Novembe...

The turnaround has been astonishing. Guitar Hero launched in 2005, its first set-list composed extensively of cover versions, with the music industry's nostrils too busy sweeping lustily over cisterns to pay it much heed. Developer Harmonix was virtually required to shuffle up to reco...

By RawmeatCowboy “Activision has taken a lot of heat in gamer circles for its perceived shameless exploitation of the Guitar Hero franchise. Against this backdrop, DJ Hero is an even more impressive feat of game development.” - Game Informer “Guitar Hero has always displayed a certain reverence toward mu...

By Mike Fahey DJ Hero is barely out the door and already there are new downloadable tracks, with 50 Cent, Queen, Gorillaz, and Public Enemy hitting Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network today - for $3.00 apiece. Lee explains why DJ Hero tracks cost a dollar more than Rock Band or Guitar Hero tracks:

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By RawmeatCowboy Full review here A portion of a Boston Globe review… Besides, apart from the turntable controller, DJ Hero smacks of the same-old. It doesn’t deliver the sense of revelation and delight that millions of us felt when we first played Guitar Hero. Full review here

By Gus Mastrapa See Also: Guitar Hero has always displayed a certain reverence toward music. Players can fail if they don’t re-create guitar gods’ every hammer-on and power chord with complete accuracy. See also: Jay-Z, Eminem Go Renegade for DJ Hero Premium Edition DJ Hero, the new music game from Activ...

By Mike Fahey I've been growing increasingly disillusioned with rhythm games over the past year. It seems like the two major players - Rock Band and Guitar Hero - are doing the exact same thing, only with different music, and let's be completely honest here - the music isn't all that different. New titles...

By RawmeatCowboy Guitar Hero usually receives most of the headlines (and rightfully so), but DJ Hero is without question Activision’s coolest rhythm game. The turntable has its drawbacks (it’s a bit small for larger folks), but that soundtrack will give you a new appreciation for music and perhaps satis...

Claiming that this is the 5th Guitar Hero game is as preposterous as claiming Windows 7 is the 7th edition of Windows. We have multiple sequels to different versions, with single band spin-offs and portable versions. We are also soon to get Band Hero, DJ Hero and who knows: maybe MC Hero and Tr...

By crossfeedthemix The Tuesday release of the new DJ Hero spin-off of the Rock Band/Guitar Hero games got me thinking about an idea I had with a friend of mine a while back as those games were first originally becoming popular.  It’s called “Guitar Troll.”  The idea is simple: you take the guitar controller from...

By RawmeatCowboy “While the core gamer side of the business has held up relatively well, sales of other titles with mass-market appeal have been impacted, particularly on the Wii. We saw this with Madden NFL 10 (unit sales down 13 percent year over year-to-date) and we believe the impact has beeneven more p...

By Mike Fahey These numbers make sense to me. While Guitar Hero and Rock Band have the benefit of recognizable instruments and music, DJ Hero consists of mashups of popular songs performed using a device that not a lot of consumers are familiar with. Just tally up how many times you've seen someone play im...

Activision actually trademarked DJ Hero after Guitar Hero exploded, long before the project that would actually become DJ Hero came to fruition. DJ Hero was originally an untitled, unannounced DJ take on Guitar Hero in development for Vivendi Games by FreeStyleGames before Vivendi me...

By Griffin McElroy It's rare that we hear anything but doe-eyed optimism from publishers of yet-to-be-released games -- however, Activision's Kai Huang, co-creator of the Guitar Hero franchise, recently voiced some fairly realistic expectations for the upcoming disc-spinning rhythm title, DJ Hero....

By RawmeatCowboy “We’re not expecting a typical videogame curve where you sell the majority of the units in the first month and then it decays quickly. We’re expecting this to be the type of game that may come out of the gate a little bit slower, but continue to grow over time. We’ve got a bit of a head start, peopl...

By Kyle VanHemert • Sony PlayStation 3 160GB Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Pack for $298.99 plus free shipping (normally $330). • DJ Hero Bundle with Turntable (360, Wii, PS3) with $15 in-game credit for $108.99 plus free shipping (normally $120 - use coupon code DJHERO10).

By RawmeatCowboy NEW YORK, NY — 10/20/09 — Today, Altec Lansing introduced its new Stage-Gig(TM) speaker system at the College Music Journal (CMJ) Music Festival in New York. Stage-Gig is a portable amplified speaker designed specifically for use with Rock Band®, Guitar Hero® and DJ Hero® games on any ga...

By RawmeatCowboy Link “You’ll certainly see a DJ Hero and the next iterations of Guitar Hero and Band Hero. But we’ll see how the market plays out and what the opportunities are. What you will see is the games become more vibrant and live longer [at retail] due to connectivity. We are really happy to be mostly [...]

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By Stephen Totilo Failure is not possible in Activision's turntable riff on Guitar Hero, but I saw last night how tough — and strategic — playing the game can be. DJ Hero was available to play in a SoHo Manhattan gallery as part of an Activision and Microsoft-backed evening event for this multi-platform game.

By Mike Fahey Along with wrapping his car in video game advertisements, Truex Jr. will also be appearing at The Fan Midway between 3:30 and 4:00pm to try his hand at the DJ rhythm game, no doubt some sort of contractual obligation of sorts that should result in an awkward 30 minutes of entertainment, at th...

By RawmeatCowboy DJ Hero is being developed by FreeStyleGames for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems and the Wii™ system from Nintendo. The game is rated 12+ by PEGI. For more information about DJ Hero, pl...

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By RawmeatCowboy “With the kind of diversity DJ Hero offers, we expect it to appeal to people who may not have yet discovered the Hero franchise. The key is that the music – which comprises of over 90 mashups that are unique to DJ Hero – is still very accessible. This game will grow the category, so retail should e...

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Activision announces pre-order bonuses for DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5 gets Billy Squier track pack, Carnage is on his way to Marvel: UA2, and DLC for IL-2 has arrived.

NEWS - DJ Hero launches soon--October 27th on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PS2, to be exact. Hopefully that gives you enough time to decide who you want to pre-order from: Blactivision (my naming suggestion must not have reached Activision Blizzard during the merger) has announced the f...

By RawmeatCowboy SANTA MONICA, CA – October 9, 2009 – Activision Publishing Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and GameStop, the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer, have teamed up to offer fans an exclusive opportunity to be amo...

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By AJ Glasser It comes down to what music games are supposed to be for. If Delallana is right and there's no one way to learn music, then maybe it doesn't matter whether or not DJ Hero has a better track list than Scratch: The Ultimate DJ. But on the other hand, if the game isn't supposed to teach me music – if it'...

By Jeff Baker DJ Hero’s October 27th release date is quickly approaching so it would only make sense that Activision would let us in on the various pre-order bonuses you will recieve while purchasing the game at various retailers. Below is the full list of pre-order bonuses you will recieve courtesy of...

By RawmeatCowboy Amazon.com – Pre-order DJ Hero and DJ Hero Renegade Edition from Amazon.com and get a $5 credit towards the music tracks that inspired the music for the game Guitar Hero Store – Pre-order DJ Hero and DJ Hero Renegade Edition and receive free two-day shipping

Whether that will be too high to spark another Guitar Hero-like success for the publisher remains to be seen. Nevertheless, Activision is throwing everything behind DJ Hero, signing big-name DJs to remix original tracks for the game and throwing lavish parties starring Jay-Z and frien...

By Alexander Sliwinski With Activision already asking consumers to plunk down over $100 for the DJ Hero peripheral later this month, it's only fair that more games use it -- but only if those titles belong to the publisher. With that, GI.biz reports that "at least one independent UK games developer" is working wit...

By Luke Plunkett While Guitar Hero is a license to print money, DJ Hero is less of a sure bet. For all we know, it may stink up the joint! That's not bothering Activision, though, as they're already looking for more developers. Activision recruiting talent for DJ Hero sequels [GI.biz]

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Peripheral incompatible with anything else. It's a statement that contradicts the instrument-sharing strides made by Rock Band and Guitar Hero lately. However, DJ Hero has only one peripheral and will be rival-less from launch this autumn until sometime next year.

By Luke Plunkett The odd compatibility hiccup aside, when you buy a Rock Band guitar or a Guitar Hero drum kit, you expect it'll work on multiple games. Not so for the upcoming DJ Hero's peripheral. DJ Hero controller not functional with other games [Dtoid]

By RawmeatCowboy Full interview here A portion of a Destructoid interview with Jamie Jackson, Creative Director for DJ Hero with FreeStyleGames… D: There has been some talk lately that the music games reached saturation point, and that people are not interested in buying new music games, or music games...

By Griffin McElroy As anyone who's ever seen me tickle the colorful neck of a Guitar Hero guitar or keep impeccable time upon a Rock Band drum kit will attest, I've got a knack for rhythm games. I've never placed my hands on a peripheral that I wasn't immediately able to mentally deconstruct and use to its fulles...

More hero games! Well, at least this one isn't Guitar Hero and it does require an all new device to interact with. We went hands-on with this months ago, and we're reporting our experience and the details.

By Mark Wilson Guitar Hero has made music social again and has become one of the most popular ways to experience music," said Dan Rosensweig, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Guitar Hero franchise. "Today's fans enjoy a variety of music and are looking for more ways to engage with their favor...

By Earnest Cavalli Alongside the handheld Guitar Hero: Modern Hits and a separate, unnamed Nintendo DS release, Eurogamer says the company plans to release "Hard Rock Van Halen (August), Guitar Hero 5 (presumably a working title - September), DJ Hero (October), and Band Hero (November)" for the PlaySta...

By Patrick Klepek No one has challenged Konami’s “Beatmania“ turntable gaming series yet, but we could have two contenders in 2009 with “Scratch: The Ultimate DJ“ and the rumored “DJ Hero“ from Activision. We asked the creative lead on “Scratch” what he learned from Konami and his thoughts on a DJ “Guitar H...