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More Guitar Hero World Tour Songs including Michael Jackson »

The latest issue of Stuff Magazine gives us some more information for Guitar Hero World Tour in the form of new songs and characters.
Stuff confirms some songs and artists we already knew about, so we’re just going to cut down the info and share with you here what we didn’t know previously.
The newly announced songs […]

Black Label Society To Feature In Guitar Hero World Tour? »

All signs point to yes.
Edit: We may have the song listed here for you shortly…
Starting with the big leak back in June that gave a few details about Guitar Hero World Tour including that Black Label Society guitarist Zakk Wylde would be a playable character. Of course that didn’t mean much as Wylde is […]

Congratulations To The Rock Band 2 Ion “Drum Rocker” »

The winners of the ‘Game Critics Best Of E3 08′ were announced and, despite a few inclusions in the nominations, the only music game to win an award was Rock Band 2 - and it was for a 3rd party peripheral.
The Rock Band 2 Ion “Drum Rocker” Set won the award for ‘Best Hardware/Peripheral’.
A full […]

Guitar Hero III Interscope Track Pack Coming »

Guitar Hero III fans will be able to download a new DLC pack this Thursday featuring artists from the Interscope label.
This newest download for Guitar Hero III will feature songs that were previously downloadable exclusives if you bought the Guitar Hero III Soundtrack, and then only if you had the Xbox 360 version.
This should be […]

Lars Fans Guitar Hero: Metallica Flames »

Shout it out! Expect Guitar Hero: MetallicaMTV News caught up with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on the beach and a reporter asked him about the rumors of a Guitar Hero featuring Metallica songs.
Here’s what he had to say;
“There’s an Aerosmith game out there that’s super successful, and if somebody’s gonna follow that up…we’re talking, and […]

Complete Rock Revolution Tracklisting »

The complete Rock Revolution setlist has been leaked to gaming site Kotaku via an anonymous tipster.
There are 41 songs in this setlist (as opposed to the previously ‘confirmed’ 40 songs), many of which are fantastic picks. It’s too bad that they’re all cover versions.
The DS version of Rock Revolution will have 20 of these […]

Guitar Hero Hightlights From Activisions Investors Conference Call »

Activision held their quarterly earning release conference call last week, and while there wasn’t that much news released on the Guitar Hero front, there were a few bits of interest.
They’ve said before, but it really seems that Activision is figuring out how lucrative sales of downloadable content can be.
“Online functionality for certain key titles [is] […]

3 More Guitar Hero Titles Coming After World Tour »

Unsurprisingly, 2009 will likely see a whole new slew of Guitar Hero titles.The Guitar Hero franchise could be seeing at least 3 more Guitar Hero titles before the next full game is released according to Mick Hickey.
Hickey is an analyst with Janco Partners and he had a few things to say following the news of […]

Murder Suspect Arrested Playing Guitar Hero at Wal-Mart »

Raymundo Castaneda, 30, is just a regular guy who likes to play Guitar Hero however for the last 8 months he has been on the run from police for allegedly killing a man.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, on December 23, 2007, Castaneda and his friend Moises Lionidas Aquilar were watching a soccer game on television […]

Final Rock Band 2 Drum Song »

Dan Teasdale of Harmonix mentioned on the Official Xbox Magazine(OXM) podcast that the final song for drums on Rock Band 2 was going to be Dream Theater’s ‘Panic Attack’, but Painkiller from Judas Priest won out.
Other things that Dan mentioned were;
The final song for guitar on Rock Band 2 hasn’t been locked down yet, but […]