The newest Guitar Hero Aerosmith trailer has been released today - Thank you to Console Hero reader Alexandre for another fantastic tip.
This latest trailer shows some more cut scenes from the game, as well as some actual footage of gameplay. It doesn’t show any of the ‘notes’ from Aerosmith songs, but you get to see […]

We were down for about 2 hours earlier today(sorry).
We were messing around with some code, thought it was working..  but it wasn’t.  Long story short, it was putting too much of a resource drain on our server and the site was taken offline until it could be fixed.
It’s fixed, we’re back, carry on as usual.

Activision has released the first 15 tracks for Guitar Hero in the latest Nintendo Power magazine.

 The first 15 represent a wide variety of genres and timelines, ranging from rock to a more pop feel and from the 70’s to today.
There are still another 10 tracks that will be part of the game, but here are […]

Newsweek is reporting that they received confirmation from an Aerosmith publicist and Activision PR that that Aerosmith has signed an exclusivity agreement with the makers of Guitar Hero.
While Aerosmith’s “Train Kept a Rollin” is currently available for Rock Band, future Aerosmith tracks will appear only on the Guitar Hero series “for an unspecified time”.
This doesn’t […]

Thanks to Console Hero reader Alexandre for the tip.
The Ant Commandos. TAC. We love them.

Guitar Hero fans will recognize TAC as makers of 3rd party guitar controllers for Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and you might also know that they make other Rhythm Game related peripherals.
TAC has just announced a new PS2 to PS3 […]

Harmonix, the creators of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, will be featured in the May 6 copy of Newsweek.
But, if you can’t wait that long to pick up the issue, you can read the article online over at the Newsweek website.
The article touches on Harmonix’ studio, their critically acclaimed but low selling early offerings, […]

Right here on Console Hero (or other websites/blogs/etc that have put the widget on their page)
Activision has had RocketXL make them a ‘mini’ version of Guitar Hero that can be easily placed onto webpages. This is a great marketing effort (kudos).

The songs are played on your keyboard, using the number buttons for frets […]

The boys over at SlashGear were at the Harmonix studios back and November and got to play an early product of Zero that is being released this upcoming week for Rock Band as a DLC.
Check out the video below. The Guitar part is obscured, but if you play the drums or bass, you can […]

Well it must be Friday as the latest Rock Band DLC has been announced.  The tracks are as follows;

The Mother Hips - “Red Tandy”
The Mother Hips - “Time Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear”
Smashing Pumpkins - “Zero”
These tracks are not available as a pack, but can be purchased individually for $1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points).
As […]

If you want to appear in a commercial for Rock Band, or just want to get your mug on TV, you should check out the latest contest from the Xbox 360 Community.  The contest is only open for UK, French and German residents only however.
To enter, you need to add ‘Xbox360uk’ to your friends list on […]