Back in May, The Cars’ self titled debut album became the second full album available as DLC for Rock Band. It also turns out that it will be available only on Rock Band, at least for a while.
Newsweek has an article up right now where a spokesperson for Rhino Records confirmed that the album […]

Activision and Logitech announced a partnership today that will see Logitech providing 3rd party game controllers for Guitar Hero World Tour, much in the same vein as Mad Catz providing 3rd party controllers for Rock Band.
This might be a smart move for Activision. While many gamers enjoy the Guitar Hero controllers that are produced […]

Ion’s ‘professional’ drum set for Rock Band, shown in the latest issue of Game Informer, has had the price announced and it’s not cheap.
The Drum Rocker set will have a retail price of $299.99, which places it over $100 more than the Rock Band bundle.
Currently the Xbox 360 versions of the drums are available for […]

The European wing of Microsoft has revelaed that Maximo Park’s “Girls Who Play Guitars” will be available for download on Tuesday, June 10th.
“We have an Xbox 360 with Rock Band installed in our rehearsal studio in Newcastle and it’s great for thrashing out some amazing songs,” explains Paul of Maximo Park. “We can’t wait until […]

Two Guitar Hero players rock out to Guns ‘n Roses’ ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ in front of 9,600 fans, setting a new Guiness record for “Largest Audience for a Videogame Performance”.
The new record was set at the Give It A Name festival in  Earls Court, London, England this past Sunday May 11.
The two gamers, Renos Georgiou, […]

We reported last week that PS2 and Wii gamers would finally be able to get additional song content for Rock Band in the form of a game disk that would be available through major retailers.
At yesterday’s Electronic Arts’ Spring Break event, an EA rep confirmed that the disk would not require the original game.  Rock Band’s ‘Track […]

Aspyr Media has updated Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for the Mac with a new patch. 
This patch will update any previous versions of Guitar Hero III to version 1.3.
This patch is highly recommended as it contains an optimization fix.  This will allow for a ‘Front Row Cam’ option so that lower end Macs can have […]

Update: Fruper seems only to be a reseller of the product, the manufacturer is a company named PEGA HK
More pictures and info about this controller are available at Deals Extreme
So we were scouring the internet for Guitar Hero goodies to bring you and came across this… uh…  gem?
This is the PEGA Wireless Guitar Controller for the […]

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 […]

Some of you might be familiar with the viral marketing campaign, ‘Will It Blend’, that blender manufacturer Blendtec has been doing.
The basic premise of the campaign is that they try to find out whether or not their blenders will ‘blend’ various items.
Given the popularity of Guitar Hero, it was only a matter of time before […]