Archive for April 30th, 2008

New Guitar Hero Aerosmith Trailer (Rock Out Trailer) »

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 […]

These are not the droids you’re looking for. »

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.

First 15 Tracks Announced for Guitar Hero: On Tour »

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 […]

Aerosmith is Guitar Hero Exclusive »

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 […]

Use Your PS2 Guitar Controller on Your PS3 Games »

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 […]

Newsweek to feature an article on Harmonix »

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, […]