You can't keep a good franchise down, and you can't keep Guitar Hero down either. Activision may have killed off this year's Guitar Hero game, but as Activision's Dan Winters explains to GameIndustry.biz, there's always next year.
Like many, I find it difficult to balance my gaming habits and my professional life. I don't, however, have the most normal day job. I'm in a band called HelloGoodbye and we tour many months out of the year.
Seven45 Studios reveals agreements with Dave Matthews Band, Eric Clapton, and Kid Rock to provide exclusive music to real guitar powered rhythm game Power Gig, along with the innovative Airstrike drums that will accompany said real guitar.
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After three tracks from America's masked metal group, you might be ready for the sound of silence. Slipknot and Simon & Garfunkel both make their Rock Band debut in next week's update.
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Harmonix and MTV Games promised more than 1,000 songs for Rock Band by the year 2010, and they have delivered with more than a month to spare.
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This fall, Band Hero DS will allow four DS systems to link up for guitar-bass-vocals-drum gameplay. And for optimal drumming, the game comes bundled with a "drum grip" revealed here.
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Be a part of an elite insectoid military force next week, when NinjaBee introduces Xbox 360 avatar support for strategy title Band of Bugs, along with an entirely new game released as DLC.
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Issue number 16 of the Official Rock Band Zine has hit fans' inboxes today, bringing with it news of three more Foreigner songs and another bunch of Warped Tour songs hitting the store next week.
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Join us in reliving the hype of last year's Microsoft E3 press conference with the know-it-all hindsight of what did and didn't come true. Sorry, Microsoft, but you were not perfect in predicting the future...
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