Guitar Hero

By Luke Plunkett Guitar Hero 5 o A Classic Case of Transference by Fall of Troy (£1.59/€1.99) o Panic Attack By Fall of Troy (£1.59/€1.99) o Single By Fall of Troy (£1.59/€1.99) Downloadable Games Elemental Monster TD Portable (£6.29/€7.99) Capcom Classics Collection (£15.99/€19.99)

By Michael McWhertor Games & Demos for PlayStation 3 Call of Duty: Classic ($14.99) Call Of Duty Classic – French Version ($14.99) PSone Classics: Command & Conquer: Red Alert Retaliation ($5.99) PSone Classics: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis ($5.99) Bayonetta demo Fairytale Fights demo

By Mike Fahey Spore Hero, the first deal, went live at 6AM Pacific, and as of this writing (around 6:50AM) they are completely sold out. Makes you wonder how fast games people actually want will sell out, doesn't it? Looking at the clues we've got a Star Wars game at 9, Guitar Hero World Tour at 11, Little Ki...

By Mike Fahey Losing ground to EA's Skate franchise, Activision tapped developer Robomodo to help take the Tony Hawk franchise in a whole new direction, eschewing standard controllers for a new plastic skateboard peripheral, attempting to bank on the success of peripheral-dependent titles like...

By Luke Plunkett Not much in the way of games this week in the PAL PlayStation Store, but those looking for more stuff to do in games they already own, they're being looked after. Guitar Hero 5 – Neversoft Thanks the Fans Pack (free) Rating: PEGI 12+ minis Dracula – Undead Awakening (£3.99/€4.99)

By Michael McWhertor The Beatles: Rock Band Genre: Rhythm music game Value: For those new to the Rock Band phenomenon and fans of The Beatles, this 45-track game is well worth a purchase because this is the only way you'll play The Beatles music in a Rock Band game. If you're not into the band, give this a pass.

By Stephen Totilo Video games? Not quite there with the upfront yet. We're past the awkward first one from last December, when an Activision representative stood up at this press-invited event and blabbed the existence of Modern Warfare 2 and a new hands-free Tony Hawk.

By Luke Plunkett It's something Red Octane and Activision are thinking about, RO's founder Kai Huang telling the Seattle Times "[a monthly subscription is] definitely one of the things we would love to do. There are a lot of issues around music licensing. Consumers want it; I know I want it. We're trying to ma...

By Mike Fahey Last week's leaked Best Buy Black Friday ad outed the two new Nintendo DSi bundles, each packed with a unique assortment of DSiWare, which left us wondering if the DSi would come preloaded with games from here on out. Apparently not, as Nintendo's official announcement plays the "While su...

By Owen Good Members of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers engaged U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq in a Guitar Hero battle, which would have been a heart-warming story if brickheaded quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hadn't called the game "Rock Band" on the teevee.

By Luke Plunkett Guitar Hero 5 o I Was Made For Loving You by KISS (£1.59/€1.99) o Lick by KISS (£1.59/€1.99) o Modern Day Delilah by KISS (£1.59/€1.99) o KISS Track Pack (£4.39/€5.49) Add-On Game Content Rock Band Unplugged o You're No Rock and Roll Fun by Sleater-Kinney (£0.99/€1.49)

By Michael McWhertor Plenty to get excited about this week on the North American PlayStation Store, including the release of adhocParty, Peggle (with Peggle Nights!) and Assassin's Creed for the PSP. Games & Demos for PlayStation 3 Peggle ($9.99) PSone Classics - Resident Evil 2 ($5.99)

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By Stephen Totilo South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! (Microsoft / DoubleSix) Guitar Hero 5 (Activision Publishing / Neversoft Entertainment) LEGO Rock Band (MTV Games – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment / Traveler's Tales Games - Harmonix) The Beatles: Rock Band (MTV Games / Harmonix)

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By Stephen Totilo After opening his article for The New Republic with a reference to how he and his fellow "smug old children of the 70s" lament the passing influence of the music of their youth, critic David Hajdu discovers a cruel twist. The music games that are so popular on consoles today bring older music...

By Michael McWhertor Even if Nirvana and Johnny Cash fans—or those in control of their estates—do find this sort of virtual karaoke circus act in bad taste, just remember that to prevent this kind of stuff would be nigh impossible. Limiting the ability to use certain Guitar Hero 5 characters in other performer...

By Owen Good • The official Guitar Hero Store is offering a $40 coupon on a two-guitar bundle for only $10 more than the regular one-guitar bundle. In other words, you pay $79.99 for the game and two axes. Regular is $119.99. [Dealzon] • Walmart has reintroduced its 2-for-$30 offer on select titles for Wii (3...

By Luke Plunkett Burnout Paradise - Big Surf Bundle Buzz! – Euro Sports Quiz Pain o Fat Princess Pack o Speed Oocher Pack Guitar Hero 5 o Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz o Lady by Lenny Kravitz o Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz o Lenny Kravitz Track Pack PSP STORE

By Michael McWhertor PlayStation 3 owners who haven't enjoyed Number None's time twisting platformer should really drop the $14.99 USD and do so. Other highlights include the release of a quartet of Pinball Heroes games for the PSP, the digital release of Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble and... a Dita Von Teese theme f...

By Stephen Totilo Appearing on the Fox Business network on Friday, the same day U.S. unemployment passed 10%, the head of Activision acknowledged that high jobless numbers will challenge the gaming business, but vouched for the value of playing games in tough times.

By Owen Good • The "Value Edition" of The Beatles: Rock Band - this includes guitar and drums peripherals but not the Beatles' signature instruments - is down to $99.99 through Amazon. Normally the kit is $140. [TDD] Here are some games on sale; all self explanatory.

By Owen Good The old dog-ate-my-controller excuse got a guy out of a 5,000 Microsoft Point purchase, plus Gamertag immortality for the scape-pooch, in the No. 1 story of a news-packed week delivered by your humble editors. Top Stories Microsoft Refunds Dog Shopping Spree, Grants K9 Gamertag

By Brian Ashcraft I think it does hurt them," said Stephen Smith, a partner specializing in entertainment and video game litigation with Greenberg Glusker, tells Variety. As Smith points out, Activision should strive to keep big names like No Doubt happy.

By Luke Plunkett During an earnings Q&A earlier today, Activision spoke a little of their 2010 product line-up. A line-up that you may be stunned to hear includes new Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and Spider Man games. Good ol' Activision. They're nothing if not dependable.

By Brian Crecente PS3 Netflix Streaming Discs Are In The Mail Giant Wine, Autographed Items, Vinyl, At Upcoming Charity Announcing The Return Of Kotaku's Game Club, For Modern Warfare 2 Guitar Hero, WoW & World At War Give Activision Better Than Expected Q3

By Michael McWhertor Activision Blizzard had kind words for the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises, which apparently many of you bought over the last three months, helping Acti-Blizz zoom past its projected $700 million quarter. CEO Robert "Bobby" Kotick pointed to "positive audience response to Acti...

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By Michael McWhertor Activision is catching legal heat from band No Doubt over the group's appearance in the recently released Band Hero. No Doubt is suing Activision, seeking damages for turning the act into "virtual karaoke players." Sound familiar?

By Owen Good The meal comes in four configurations, offers four "collector's cups" featuring NFLers rendered, interestingly, in their cartoony Madden-for-the-Wii forms. McWhertor, still nauseous from last year's unboxing of the Guitar Hero meal, assigned this to me on the pretense that as the s...

By Stephen Totilo Guitar Hero III has been flat for a while, which either means no one new has bought it and those who have it have stopped playing it (doubtful) or that new users' lack of time with the game is balancing out veteran users' continued use. Whatever the case may be, the game dipped slightly this mon...

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.

By Mike Fahey Bliss Handheld Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars The Rampage Soundtrack of the Year: Guitar Hero World Tour Xbox Game of the Year: Gears of War 2 PlayStation Game of the Year: Killzone 2 Publisher of the Year: Activision Blizzard

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 Brian Ashcraft To promote the track "Underdog" from British rockers Kasabian, a group of footballers play "Football Hero". Seventeen games to get 76 percent — you try to do better! Dazzling stuff. Great tune, too. Guitar Hero played on a massive scale using soccer balls [I Heart Chaos]

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 Michael McWhertor Welcome to Bobby Kotick's nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless, a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air guitar future! Guitar Hero without a guitar [Procrastineering]

By Stephen Totilo Insomniac Games boss Ted Price recently confessed he'd been ignoring the world of Internet "community" that he'd been proselytizing as the future of gaming. Apology necessary? In Price's case, the question is whether the head of a development studio has anything to be sorry for if he's n...

By Brian Crecente I just went through my current stash of goodies sent me from publishers and there are a ton of neat things we're giving away including more than 70 T-Shirts, a custom straight jacket, a limited edition Brutal Legend statue, a Guitar Hero drum seat, a popcorn machine and a Divinity Dragon kn...

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...

By Mike Fahey If you had any doubts about the ever-growing importance of Facebook to the game industry, look no further than today's Activision announcement, heralding the impressive number of fans the Guitar Hero Facebook page has gathered. It's not about sales. It's not about review scores. It's abo...

By Brian Crecente Guitar Hero, Madden, Eliminate Play The Monetization Game Xbox 360 Update Hands-On: Facebook And Twitter Xbox 360 Update Hands-on: Last.FM In Action Japan Gets New "Value" Elite Xbox 360 Bundle Microsoft Explores Xbox Live Rewards Program 3GS iPhone Games Get Special Code

By Michael McWhertor PlayStation 3 Games & Demos Trine ($19.99) PSone Classics - Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee ($9.99) PSone Classics - Oddworld: Abe's Exodus ($9.99) Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time demo Critter Crunch demo Dragon Ball: Raging Blast demo Guitar Hero tracks

By Michael McWhertor The Beatles: Rock Band folks further rub their victory in Activision's corporate face by pointing out that Guitar Hero 5 shipped on an additional platform (the PlayStation 2) and even included a copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen thrown in for free.

By Stephen Totilo Music Game Platform Choices Juggle: A lot of people are rightly focusing on the September victory of The Beatles: Rock Band over Guitar Hero 5. That's interesting. But here's another twist. Last year, Guitar Hero: World Tour launched in November 2008 with the Wii version as the top-seller (...

By Michael McWhertor 01. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360) - 1,520,000 03. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360) - 298,600 05. The Beatles: Rock Band (Xbox 360) - 254,000 06. Madden NFL 10 (PS3) - 246,500 07. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (Xbox 360) - 236,000 09. Guitar Hero 5 (Xbox 360) - 210,800 10. The Beatles: Rock Band (Wii) - 208,600

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By AJ Glasser Then he took a dig at Wii Fit's "bathroom scales" as compared to EA Sports Active's awesomeness that doesn't require an expensive peripheral. Later he went after Activision head Bobby Kotick about how if people stop buying Guitar Hero, he'll be sitting on half the world's plastic.

By AJ Glasser Despite Moore and Huang's faith in the future of digital distribution, however, both developers are releasing three to four disc-based games on console a year. Complete with plastic peripherals which cost even more money to manufacture than video game software, mind you.

By Owen Good Reader GHETTO CHiLD spotted "Mario Land" at the N.C. State Fair (largest midway of any state fair in the U.S., you can look that up.) It's not the only video game brand with a presence there. There's a Guitar Hero tournament - likely being held on a much more official basis - over in Dorton Arena this...

By Owen Good Activision joined an all-star list of brands such as Bud Light, Captain Morgan's and Crunch Gym in paying for product placement, but no one got the treatment like Activision, in which a Guitar Hero showdown acts as a key plot device moving the story forward. Variety talked to Will Kassoy, t...

By Owen Good The next Xbox Live update will deliver Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm, but, Ron Popeil style, wait, there's more! According to an email from Microsoft, anyway. Get ready for news headlines and dedicated music stores in the Xbox Live dashboard.

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 Owen Good Yeah, my last account was permanently disabled due to (I think) Activision. Right before my account was shut down, the Kurt Cobain vid was removed due to copyright claim by Activision Games Inc. I will be continuing with this account so whatever f—k it all.

By Owen Good It takes a performer like Danny "GuitarHeroPhenom" Johnson, holder of eight marks in the Guinness Book of World Records, to bring it out (and he 100 percents this song just an hour after getting Guitar Hero: Van Halen in the mail.) Video: Van Halen Eruption solo, Guitar Hero Phenom vs. Eddie...

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 AJ Glasser You see, Jam Sessions wasn't like other music games in that it wasn't really a "game." It was a tool to let people make music even if they hadn't the foggiest idea how a real guitar works. Just so, its sequel isn't out to compete with Guitar Hero or that Hannah Montana spin-off game I remember pla...

By Michael McWhertor The rest? Well, there's "Gay Bar." It's now available to owners of the PlayStation 3 version of Rock Band. That's pretty exciting. The full list of goods for this week's PlayStation Store update, including a few new PSP games for your PSPgo, is after this. Guitar Hero tracks

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By Michael McWhertor Guitar Hero 5 was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation and Wii on September 1. Retails for $59.99 USD ($39.99 USD on PS2). Played all soundtrack selections, tested all modes online and offline with a maximum of three guitars, one dru...

By AJ Glasser I finished my demo with another Neversoft-created song that turned out to be a Back medley. I don't think I'm enough of a musician (or any kind of musician, really) to ever make something so wonderful myself. But if I buy Guitar Hero 5, I'll be a getting a ticket to enjoy the brilliance of other b...

By AJ Glasser The last time I previewed a Guitar Hero game, I was drawn to the Wii version because it attracted a less-competitive crowd of music fan. Now I'm drawn to it to kick some ass. How Far Along Is It? Fairly final. Guitar Hero 5 is out September 1.

By Stephen Totilo This November, Activision's Vicarious Visions studio will release its fourth music game for the Nintendo DS. Band Hero DS follows a trio of shrunken Guitar Hero games that were playable on Nintendo's handheld with a bundled guitar grip that plugged into the Nintendo DS' Game Boy Advance...

By Michael McWhertor Like Amplitude, But Better: Rock Band Unplugged's gameplay is straight up Amplitude and Frequency, two PlayStation 2 rhythm games that went under-appreciated in their time. Only Unplugged is way better. Harmonix and Backbone Entertainment expand on the gameplay established by those...

By Owen Good Capcom Capcom Offices Preparing For Viral Outbreaks These Are The Biggest-Selling Capcom Franchises Of All Time If Michael Bay Did Bionic Commando, It Would Look Like This Capcom Take Money Money, Make Money Money Money Capcom Shipped Lots of Games Building the Capcom Army

By Owen Good Microsoft Explains the E74 Code, Sorta Microsoft Extends Warranty For "E74" Failures Rhythm and Beatles Guitar Hero: Van Halen Confirmed By Ratings Board? Is The Beatles Bundle Worth $250? Here's Your Beatles: Rock Band Box Art Beatles Rock Band Bundle Detailed

By Owen Good The benefits are not directly connected to making music, an experience both games only replicate at best (although Guitar Hero: World Tour's music studio mode goes a little further with musical experimentation.) But in nuturing an appreciation for music, or breaking down performance...

By Brian Crecente While playing Guitar Hero World Tour for my review of the game I started thinking that maybe the plastic and rubber drum kit was a bit louder that Rock Band 2's. So Adam and I made this short little video showing me playing a chunk of the same song. This isn't scientific at all (You'd need a way to m...

By Brian Crecente Guitar Hero: World Tour was developed by Neversoft for the Xbox 360 and PS3, published by Activision and released on Oct. 26 for Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. The Band Kit retails for $189.99 USD. Completed single-player tour using guitar, played many songs using bass, drum...

By Brian Crecente However, integrating the Guitar Hero World Tour drum controller into the Rock Band games requires an update to the Rock Band game software. Until that update is made to the Rock Band software, the Guitar Hero World Tour drum controller will not function in the PlayStation 3 version of that...

By Michael McWhertor When word broke that the KFC-Activision partnership had resulted in more than just Guitar Hero World Tour in-game advertising, with a Guitar Hero branded "Fully Loaded Box Meal" hitting the fast food chain, we decided to strap on the feedbag and test it out for ourselves. The meal consist...

By Mike Fahey Has Activision managed to beat Harmonix at their own game, or is Guitar Hero World Tour but a pale imitation? Let's see what the all-star game critics super group has to say. From nowhere near even Rock Band 1 to look out, Harmonix, in five easy steps.

By Luke Plunkett Look. Before we go any further. I know. There's zero gameplay footage, there's zero announcements (because we knew the product itself was coming in 2009), and with no gameplay and a s-s-s-haky cam, there's always the chance it's a fake. But you know what? As a community service to anyone who is...

By Brian Ashcraft Over at MTV's Multiplayer blog, they've gone a little Nintendo number crunching crazy. Based on data pulled from the Wii's Nintendo Channel, there's Wii software usages (as of October 5, 2008) for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii, Rock B...

By Owen Good Well, guess what, just like its Satan-worshippin' brothers at Activision and Harmonix, Guitar Praise has DLC. And MTV Multiplayer (and sometime Kotaku guest editor) Stephen Totillo reports that all you rapture-ready rockers can get your Stryper on in a spring '09 expansion pack. Yup. MT...

By Stuart Houghton MTV Multiplayer has taken delivery of Guitar Praise: Solid Rock — the Christian Rock-themed Guitar Hero knock-off — and performed a solemn unboxing ceremony. Hallelujah: ‘Guitar Praise’ Unboxed, With Screenshots[MTV Multiplayer]

By AJ Glasser This was the most shocking thing I retained from my interview with David. The rest is to be expected – of course Vicarious is pleased to have climbed from Jet Set Radio on the GameBoy Advance to such lofty heights as developing Guitar Hero: World Tour for the Wii.

By AJ Glasser So, yeah. After all that, Guitar Hero: World Tour fucking owed me a good time. It’s like having a favorite candy and then they come out with a sour version that fizzes in your mouth and has Tool songs. That’s what Guitar Hero: World Tour is – the Warheads to Rock Band’s Airheads.

By Owen Good I realize this pours gas on the bad parenting flames of yesterday, but holy crow, I can't not show you this story. Yesterday reader tooji tipped me off to the story of Blake Peebles, a 16-year-old in Raleigh, N.C., whose parents have let him drop out of school so that he can focus on a professiona...

By Michael McWhertor We were shown a quick demonstration that just about ten minutes, whipping up a serviceable song in virtually no time at all. Using the strum bar to hit notes, the fret buttons to choose notes and chords and the angle of the guitar to change the octave, it was apparent that the guitar controlle...

By Michael McWhertor The silver lining to this horribly depressing decision is that I certainly know now that I'll have no desire to pick up any future Guitar Hero games. Thanks, Activision and RedOctane! You just saved me hundreds. ...

By Michael McWhertor We'd seen YouTube user egyokeo's videos of his custom MIDI drum pad-Guitar Hero III interface, but had yet to see him drum his way through Dragonforce's "Through The Fire And The Flames" on expert. It's a fairly impressive effort, even for a 20-year veteran of the drums, when someone can re...

By Brian Ashcraft Activision honcho Robert Kotick is not a nerd. He has a totally cool nickname, "Bobby." And cool guys have a nickname like that. His company puts out cool games like Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero. Bobby recently told a room full of press:

By Brian Crecente Activision just sent over a whole slew of Guitar Hero 3 box art, screens and controller images. Hit the gallery to check out the images, including nice ones of all four GH controllers.

By Mike Fahey Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock lets gamers fire up the fretboard, crank up the amp and get ready to rock like never before. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock drops players into the spotlight of the largest and most legendary rock concert ever. The star-studded soundtrack includes master tr...

By Mark Wilson The covers of the songs don't feel as tuned or as polished as they did in the superior Guitar Hero II. Beyond that, you never feel like you're actually "playing" these songs as much as you're merely trying to hit a bunch of random fret buttons as quickly as possible.

By Luke Plunkett With Rock Band's arrival shaking the very ground upon which my consciousness dwells, I can't say I'm all that excited about Guitar Hero III. Then again, I can always muster a little excitement for Number of the Beast. Scorehero Invades Neversoft (Exclusive GHIII Info!) [ScoreHero Boards...

By Flynn De Marco So, it seems that all is not well with the recently released GH II patch for the 360. While many people have reported that the update fixed all their whammy bar issues, I have gotten quite a few emails claiming that the new fix has caused the game to freeze up and in some cases even given them the d...

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No official word from Red Octane yet on the situation, but I'm sure by the time Monday rolls around we'll hear all about it. Of course, there is no solid proof that this particular patch is the cause of these issues, but it seems pretty ...

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By Flynn De Marco Good news for xbox 360 Guitar Hero II owners. The folks at Red Octane have posted a thread on their forums addressing the whammy bar response issue that cropped up soon after the game's launch. A title update for Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360 will be available on Xbox Live at 4:00 am PDT on Satur...

Got Guitar Hero II on the 360? Got one of the busted guitars? HairyArse over at All About The Games has a DIY fix that lets you patch up your existing guitar instead of having to go and swap it over. This means there's no stoppin to ...

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By Mark Wilson Until the Gods bestowed upon Man the grace of the Guitar Hero games, we were condemned to a legacy of producing faux music with air alone. (Or, alternatively, not producing any music at all with a real guitar sitting in our corner/closet/attic). Life was meaningless and dark.

By Michael McWhertor Tired of the stock jams available to you in Guitar Hero II? If you aren't yet aware, making your own Guitar Hero tracks, from any song, is not far out of reach. Those looking for a bloodied finger, near impossible challenge like the one below (Dragonforce's "Fury of the Storm") should read on.

I let him slap on his own stickers, and then set him up on Guitar Hero 2 playing Bass for Shout at the Devil. It was his first experience playing Guitar Hero. He didn't do so well, so we went back to Guitar Hero and I set him up on I Love Rock and Roll on easy. I'm going upstairs to play guitar."

By brownlee Finally! Tripping over the wire when you're rocking out to Godzilla in Guitar Hero and shattering your front teeth across the upper edge of your television screen will be a thing of the past: RedOctane has announced that the Guitar Hero controllers are going wireless next month. They will...

One of the developers of RedOctane/Roxor's Into The Groove dance "simulator" also started the free open-source ripoff of Konami's own DDR. As if Guitar Hero isn't a ripoff of Guitar Revolution. mykie

By Kotaku To highlight the absurdity, The Ant Commandos gave Robert this timeline of how the Guitar Hero controller was ripped-off... sorry. Born. • 1999: Topway Electrical Appliance (part owner of TAC) patents the Magical Guitar controller for Konami's Guitar Freaks. The design had five fret button...

Yesterday, we asked for our readers — whom we see as a vast armada of guinea pigs with money far less valuable than our own — to tell us what they thought of the DDRgame third-party Guitar Hero controller. No one did. But! Someone mentioned that there actually is a wireless Guitar Hero controll...

So caveat emptor when we point out this other Guitar Hero third-party controller made by DDRgame and sold by Amazon. It's a little more traditional looking, in line with the original Guitar Hero controller, with a slightly cooler beck and a flaming red color. Unlike the Shredder, the Amazo...

A week back or so, we enthusiastically burbled on about the Shredder, a third-party Guitar Hero controller that made the liquid in our crotches glow through the skin like a lava lamp. We said we'd go buy one. This was a lie. It was part of a devious plot to get you to spend your hard-earned money fo...

By Brian Ashcraft Like the Sgt. Pepper's album, Guitar Hero has a hidden track. The tune's name is Trippolette, and was perhaps cut because it sounds like prog-rock. The song was still left on the disc. To unearth this treasure, players need a cheat device like Codebreaker or Gameshark. Rock on!