Guitar Hero

By Michael McWhertor Other exciting new North American PlayStation Store debuts await you after this. Games & Demos Punisher: No Mercy ($9.99) Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for PSP ($19.99) Mind Quiz for PSP ($9.99) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Essentials for PSP ($19.99) Guitar Hero World Tour tracks

By Stephen Totilo Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (October 2007) — 57 hours, 42 minutes Guitar Hero Metallica (March 2009) — 14 hours, 38 minutes Guitar Hero Aersomith (June 2008) — 12 hours, 50 minutes Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2 (November 2008) — 8 hours, 54 minutes

By Stephen Totilo Make way for Rune Factory Frontier and Rock Band 2 in our (theoretically) monthly study of which Nintendo Wii games are getting played the most, per user. Rock Band 2's appearance is no surprise, as it surges toward Guitar Hero III. Notably, Rock Band 2 has passed the average playing time of i...

By Brian Crecente I like the idea, but I would love it if they actually carted arcade games around to parties. Or better still, like a huge stage that unfolds with fog machines, pyro effects and a stage to play Rock Band or Guitar Hero on. Oh... and groupies, totally need groupies.

By Luke Plunkett In terms of portability, though...it's a little ridiculous. For the box to include that locker, the figure and the poster, we're talking a crate as big as a Guitar Hero/Rock Band bundle. Only, for an annual sports title. Wonder how that'll fly with retailers.

By Mike Fahey The news comes from an article in the LA Business Journal on the success that companies such as Activision have had with controller based games like Guitar Hero. Nestled away in said article is THQ's Chief Executive Brian Farrell spilling the beans on an upcoming controller-based title t...

By Luke Plunkett Downloadable Games Guitar Hero: World Tour Rock Band Videos Battlefield 1943 Theme MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Competition Theme Battlefield 1943 x2 Wallpapers PlayStation Store via PSP and Media Manager Downloadable Games (also available via the PS3 store) Rock Band Unplugged

By Michael McWhertor Plenty of playable fun joins the North American PlayStation Store this week, with new PSN games, a new PS One Classic and fresh downloadable PSP games. You want Mobile Light Force? We got Mobile Light Force! Guitar Hero World Tour tracks

By Michael McWhertor Is Gearbox trying to enjoy the fruits of brand recognition, or is the developer simply trying to stop Activision before it goes too far? We know that Gearbox certainly has a lot on its plate right now with Aliens: Colonial Marines, Borderlands and a still-unannounced project or two, but w...

By Stephen Totilo Away from the chaos of E3, we've gotten a chance to swing a MotionPlus-appended Wii Remote to control Wii Sports Resort, the showcase game for Nintendo's latest controller add-on. Yes, the chaos of the big show was absent, but present were guys from Nintendo. What Should Stay The Same?

By Mike Fahey White went on to say that "It's depressing to have a label come and tell you that [Guitar Hero] is how kids are learning about music and experiencing music." While he added that he doesn't try to limit "which format people should get their music in…if you have to be in a video game to get in front...

By Mike Fahey With support recently introduced for both Guitar Hero: Metallica and Rock Band 2, the wireless microphone double-packed with copies of Microsoft's karaoke game Lips are rather conveniently little devices, and they'll be much more convenient this fall, when they are released as stan...

By Mike Fahey DJ Hero (Traveler's Tales/Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) Guitar Hero 5 (Neversoft/Red Octane/Activision for All Systems) Scribblenauts (5TH Cell/WBIE for Nintendo DS) The Beatles Rock Band (Harmonix/MTV Games/EAP for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)

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...

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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 Mike Fahey Activision and RedOctane has been working furiously to deal with issues Guitar Hero World Tour players have been having with their over and under-sensitive drum kits, and to that end they've released a Guitar Hero World Tour Drum Tuning Kit, as promised back on Tuesday. The kit takes the f...

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 Stuart Houghton The description for Guitar Praise: Solid Rock seems a little familiar - Two guitars can be connected at the same time, so two guitarists can play together - either on the same track or one on lead, the other on bass. Players press the fret buttons and strum on the strum bar in time to the color-c...

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 Michael McWhertor The Harmonix community manager writes at the official Rock Band forums that a routine patch for the PlayStation 3 version of the game is coming soon, one that will address "a number of items related to guitar controller compatibility." The patch was expected to be released yesterday, but...

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.

Anyways, as Guitar Hero's become more popular, so has ScoreHero, to the point where they needed all-new servers and gear to cope with the demand. $10,000 worth, to be exact. Which is a lot of cash, and while fan donations made a big dent in it, a $2000 donation from Harmonix didn't hurt either. H...

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!