This isn’t the first Guitar Hero playing robot, but it’s the latest, and it’s also very accurate.
Four undergraduate students at Texas A&M University have developed a Guitar Hero playing robot, which they’ve dubbed Slashbot.  Slashbot is a tribute to both the guitarist Slash, as well as technology website Slashdot.
Slashbot works by reading pixel info from […]

I just downloaded the Def Leppard DLC that became available yesterday and, to much surprise, the tracks “Rock of Ages” and “Photograph” are live versions of the songs, not master tracks.
Still excited to get Def Leppard for Guitar Hero, but I would have much preferred masters.
The new single “Nine Lives”, at least, is a master.
Would you have preferred […]

Kevin Maney, the reporter at Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine who did the recent Bobby Kotick interview that caused great speculation in the gaming circles, has noticed the amount of attention the Guitar Hero part of the interview generated.
The interview that was printed was only a small part of what was actually said, so Maney has […]

Update: Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine has now released the full part of the Guitar Hero portion of the Kotick Q&A, link below the article.
Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision, recently sat down with Kevin Maney of Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine to talk about the direction that Activision will take in the future.
When asked about the future […]

MTV recently sat down with Aaron Habibipour, a producer of the Guitar Hero Aerosmith game, to discuss the upcoming release of Guitar Hero Aerosmith.
Highlights of the interview were Habbipour mentioning that Guitar Hero Aerosmith would be easier than Guitar Hero III. “We went back and retuned the game so it was back to where people felt it needed […]

If you’re looking for a unique way to carry and store your Guitar Hero or Rock Band guitar controller, you could do worse than some of the offerings from Coffin Case.
They only have the cases for Guitar Hero controllers listed on their website, but they note that they will be getting cases for the Rock Band […]

Xbox, Toyota, and Peavey have teamed up in an upcoming promotion that will see 24 Guitar Hero gamers winning a life-size peavey guitar that has been modded to play Guitar Hero.
More info after the break

MTV announced today that Rock Band will be releasing it’s first full album download next week.
The first album available will be Judas Priest’s “Screaming for Vengeance”
The album will cost $15, with individual tracks costing $2 each.
The Judas Priest album will be followed in May by the self-titled debut album of 1980s rockers The Cars, and […]

Following Nintendo’s Media Summit in San Francisco last week, plenty of new information is coming out about Guitar Hero: On Tour. Here’s a little preview…
Guitar Hero: On Tour is being developed by Vicarious Visions who have been developing other games for the Nintendo DS, most notably the Tony Hawk and Spider-Man series. They also […]

In an interview with ARTISTdirect, Gavin Rossdale announced that his song ‘Frontline’ from his solo album ‘WANDERlust’ would be included in “the next Guitar Hero”.
We’ve copied out the most important part of the interview below;
ARTISTdirect: [I]t’s cool that music pops up in other venues like video games. Would you ever want to score a video game […]