• hardware

    PS2 to PS3 Guitar Hero Adapter Rescues Otherwise Non-Functional Guitars

    Here's some great news...that possibly comes a few months too late. TAC has released an adapter that will make your PS2 Guitar Hero controllers compatible with PS3 versions of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Running $19.99, the company promises the adapter makes guitars "100% compatible" for use, supporting: regular PS2 controllers, Red Octane's and Activision's SG Controller, the Kramer Wireless, Nyko's PS2 Frontman guitar, the DreamGear Shredster, all React PS2 guitar controllers and all Psyclone PS2 guitar controllers. While the $20 sticker price is a bit steep to make this purchase a no-brainer, many of us have been sitting on otherwise useless PS2 guitars. So we'll just label this a good thing and call it a day. You can buy one here, hit the jump for the full details.
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    12:40 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
    By Mark Wilson
    11,477 views, 51 comments

    Latest by DaisyCapito: Works great, using my GH2 (red) and 80's (white wireless) PS2 for playing PS3 versions of RB1, RB2, and more »

  • guitar hero ii

    GHII Gets Xbox Live Indie Lovin'

    While the rest of creation has since moved on to Guitar Hero III or Rock Band, there are still some Xbox 360 owners out there who prefer the great taste of Guitar Hero II, and to you Red Octane is sending out some love. The Indie Label Pack has just gone up on Xbox Live, featuring three songs from artists whose names are only vaguely familiar to me. . For the standard Guitar Hero DLC price of 500 Microsoft points, you'll get "State of Massachusetts" by Dropkick Murphys, "You Should Be Ashamed of Myself" by The Bled, and "Memories of the Grove" by Maylene & The Sons of Disaster. Of the three, Dropkick Murphys is the most vaguely familiar, and so they get a nice giant picture atop the article. The other two must try harder, and maybe next time you'll make it!

    New Guitar Hero 2 Song Pack Hits Xbox Live [Shacknews]

    10:20 AM on Fri Nov 30 2007
    By Mike Fahey
    2,013 views, 58 comments

    Latest by theJON: @BigMoose: Hell yeah my friend. Now if only it was on Rock Band and not Guitar Hero. I would love more »

  • retail

    Black Friday Deal: Get a Free GH2 With Xbox 360

    Over at a site called BFAds.net they have posted a number of Thanksgiving weekend circulars. The Best Buy one shows a great deal: Buy an Xbox 360 system for $349 and get a free copy of Guitar Hero II. The PS3, on the other hand, is $399 with Spiderman 3 and Open Season Blu-Rays. But the best deal of all? Orange Box for $25 for the PC. Now that's value. More »

    4:00 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
    By geoff
    11,102 views, 88 comments

    Latest by soonerjudd: Dude! Guitar Hero pack FREE with a 360? This seems like the deal I've been waiting for. Now more »

  • cheap ass gaming

    Guitar Hero Goes Double, Slightly Budget

    If you've somehow managed to avoid catching Guitar Hero fever until only recently, the Guitar Hero Dual Pack may be right up your alley. The new edition of the Harmonix developed franchise packs in the original Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II for the PlayStation 2 in a $60 package which, while not exactly cheap, does come in cheaper than buying the first two games separately. Reader Edward spotted it on Best Buy's site recently, but Activision makes it official today, as the game should be on store shelves as you read this.

    What's not on store shelves? Copies of the PlayStation 3 version of Guitar Hero III, unfortunately, which seems to be back ordered and sold out everywhere.

    5:20 PM on Wed Nov 7 2007
    By Michael McWhertor
    4,303 views, 45 comments

    Latest by GargantulaKon: Does anyone know if the Dual pack contains any updates to Guitar Hero 1? Such as the lag compensation feature more »

  • music

    Guitar Hero Music Invades iTunes, Crazy Expensive

    You can now hit up iTunes to download the full set lists for Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. But wait, before you get all excited and start high-fiving strangers, check the price.

    The Guitar Hero III soundtrack alone will run you $60. Guitar Hero II? $54. Guitar Hero? $43. That's because these aren't honest to goodness soundtracks, but rather a collection of all of the songs in one download list. In other words, you're paying a buck a pop for every song on the list. Kinda cruddy.

    Oh, they did create an iTunes Essentials for Guitar Hero... but it's not discounted either. The 25 songs run you $24.75.

    9:00 AM on Tue Oct 23 2007
    By Brian Crecente
    6,205 views, 46 comments

    Latest by The Gorgon's Gaze: Yeah, $1 for a song - "CRAZY expensive" - Seriously, what the hell do you want from bands? Go write more »

  • e for all

    GH2 Tourney Hits E4All

    Target and E for All are teaming up starting today to host a $3,000 Guitar Hero 2 tourney at the public gaming convention in LA.

    The tournaent will run from today through Saturday with the winner taking home more than $3,000 in cash and Target gift cards. Gift cards? Like 2,000 $1.50 cards?

    Hit the jump for the full release and the South Hall of E4All to see it in person. Say Hi to McWhertor if you see him hanging about... and then poke him and tell him to get back to work. More »

    3:04 PM on Thu Oct 18 2007
    By Brian Crecente
    1,179 views, 12 comments

  • guitar hero

    New Guitar Hero II Song Pack Tomorrow

    Three more songs are being added to the Xbox 360 Guitar Hero II lineup tomorrow morning at 2AM Pacific, once again for the bargain basement or entirely too expensive price of 500 Microsoft points, depending on where you stand on that issue. The three new tracks consist of:
    Trivium - Detonation
    Atreyu - Right Side of the Bed
    Protest the Hero - Bury the Hatchet
    I won't pretend to know any of those songs. If you do, get all excited and call me out for my lack of musical knowledge. If you don't, side with me and together we can bring these music know-it-alls to heel for once and for all!

    New DLC Pack for Guitar Hero II - 360!     [ScoreHero - Thanks Eddie]

    4:40 PM on Wed Sep 19 2007
    By Mike Fahey
    5,048 views, 52 comments

    Latest by baxterpunch: @KaneRobot: Dude, Suffregette City and Wave of Mutilation appeal to me far more than anything on GHIII, and I don't more »

  • downloadable content

    Guitar Hero II DLC Goes Multi-Platinum

    Sure it's stretching the criteria a bit, but with 650,000 combined downloads across multiple song packs and three songs per pack, that makes...well, 1,950,000 downloads, but I am sure Activision took that into account when they put out the press release below, which boasts two million song downloads. I have to wonder how many more they would have gotten by now had they not released the packs with the ridiculous $5 price tag, but the $3,250,000 they've made off of the DLC so far is nothing to shake a stick at. Just ask Dusty Welch, RedOctane's head of publishing.
    "The Guitar Hero II downloadable video game song packs are some of the most popular content on Xbox LIVE and are quickly becoming a very lucrative revenue stream and powerful promotional vehicle for musicians and record labels today."
    Yep, we sure showed them. Overprice your song packs and we'll boycott them so hard you'll only make $3 million dollars. Take that! More »

    9:40 AM on Tue Sep 11 2007
    By Mike Fahey
    3,895 views, 69 comments

    Latest by Chupakun: @taidan19: Sorry about the late response, but I wished to make a general, objective statement thats applicable to a general more »

  • nintendomination

    June Software Sales Rich With Mini-Games, Pokémon

    The NPD Group's software sales estimates for June show that American gamers haven't yet tired of mini-games, Pokemon or Guitar Hero. Nintendo revealed earlier this month that over a half-million gamers had snapped up Mario Party 8, with the lion's share of sales happening in June. Wii Play saw similar hardcore gamer heart-stoppingly stellar sales. You know what that means? More mini-games!

    Here are the top 8 games sold in the US for the month of June, with the rest of the top 20 following.

    1. Mario Party 8 (Wii) - 426,600
    2. Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) - 293,200
    3. Pokémon Diamond (DS) - 288,400
    4. Pokémon Pearl (DS) - 214,700
    5. Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360) - 197,400
    6. Guitar Hero II w/ Guitar (PS2) - 197,350
    7. Guitar Hero II w/Guitar (Xbox 360) - 177,600
    8. Pokémon Battle Revolution (Wii) - 157,900 More »

    5:20 PM on Mon Jul 23 2007
    By Michael McWhertor
    3,519 views, 90 comments

    Latest by GammaPoweredSuperApe: @NotSoCool: I agree here... The Wii is poised to dramatically change the makeup of online socializing. Animal Crossing could drive more »

  • rerun

    What Are You Playing This Weekend?

    With a fiesta throwing down at Casa de McWhertor tonight, I wouldn't be surprised if it ultimately wound down with a late night series of Guitar Hero II battles. Be warned party-goers, I'm bringing my A-game to my performance of Lamb of God's "Laid to Rest." More »

    2:40 PM on Fri Jun 15 2007
    By Michael McWhertor
    1,006 views, 89 comments

    Latest by Import2001: Going out drink tonight so no gaming, but after a BBQ at my parents house for Dad's day, more »