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• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - Four New Tracks Revealed

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:47 pm

  Tags: Sony, Gamer Life, Nintendo, Microsoft, Games, Game Consoles, Game Companies, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero Iii Legends Of Rock, Legends Of Rock, Neversoft, Scorehero

  ScoreHero, the Guitar Hero fan community wriggled some more Guitar Hero III tracks out of Neversoft - here they are: Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames (Master) Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast (Master) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss (Master) ZZ Top - La Grange This brings the total track count up to nineteen with

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• World Series of Video Games to be Broadcast on CBS

  Published: July 28, 2007, 2:04 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Games, Cbs Sports, Gaming Tournaments, Guitar Hero, Nytimes, Video Game Systems, Video Game Tournaments, World Series Of Video Games

  and bashing on their plastic Guitar Hero controllers. “Who knows, in 10 years we could be looking back on this as a very significant moment, said Rob Correa, senior vice president for programming at CBS Sports. This is true - considering that 13 billion dollars worth of video game systems and software were purchaed last year Americans

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• Mattel drops new details on I Can Play educational guitar

  Published: July 28, 2007, 4:35 pm

  Tags: Allegro Multimedia, Allegromultimedia, Child, Education, Guitar, I Can Play, Icanplay, Kid, Mattel, Music, Toy, Youngster

  shred on via one version of Guitar Hero or another, Mattel is trying to preserve our offsprings' minds a little while longer with a more educationally-inclined toy axe. Originally mentioned at the International Toy Fair, the I Can Play instrument is slated to land this August for $99.99 and will boast the Allegro Multimedia Guitar Wizard Method

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• Swarovski studded Hello Kitty Maneki Neko' doll

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:37 am

  Tags: Hello Kitty, Doll, Guitar, Ipod Mini, Hello Gold Business Card, And Robot, Swarovski Crystals

  earlier seen the Hello Kitty guitar, Hello Kitty iPod mini, Hello Kitty gold business card, and a Hello Kitty robot. The centerpiece at the running event is a Hello Kitty doll made of 62,000 Swarovski crystals. Posed as a maneki neko (a good money fortune symbol in Japan), the dazzling doll is being showcased along with around 800 unique Hello

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• Learn To Play Blues Guitar - 5 Easy Steps To Have You Wailing

  Published: July 13, 2007, 3:32 pm

  Tags: How To Play Acoustic Guitar, How To Play Electric Guitar, Learn To Play Blues Guitar

  To Play Blues Guitar- Easy Measure 2 Experiment with different rhythms. The patterned advance shown above volition work with just about any rhythm, providing that it's calm and you can maintain it in time. Why not seek a funky 16ths feel? If you don't cognize how this sounds believe of the funky guitar from the Shaft song.

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• Crafty gamer builds PS2 Guitar Hero axe from scratch

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:18 am

  Tags: Controller, Custom, Diy, Guitar, Guitar Hero, Guitarhero, Hack, Homemade, Mod, Playstation 2, Playstation2, Ps2, Video

  Gaming Itching for anything Guitar Hero-related to tide your over until the third iteration hits? If you just so happen to have two unwanted PS1 controllers, a whammy bar, a few screws, a motion sensor, some wood (or similar), cutting instruments, and whole slew of other random tools (seriously, it's a lengthy list), you've got a tremendous

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• DIY: How to Make an Ugly Guitar Hero Guitar Out of Scratch

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Custom, Custom Made, Diy, Guitar, Guitar Hero, Mods

  default Guitar Hero controllers are alright, but this guy's made a custom GH guitar himself—out of stuff he had lying around the house. He took the circuit board from a PS1 controller, a strap, miscellaneous household junk, and fashioned a Guitar Hero-esque guitar out of it. We would have recommended that he start with a real guitar and

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• Sousaphone Hero not living up to expectations

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:58 am

  Tags: Activision, Guitar Hero, Guitarhero, Onion, Sousaphone, Sousaphone Hero, Sousaphonehero, The Onion, Theonion

  Filed under: Gaming Self-proclaimed "America's finest news source" The Onion reports that Activision's latest virtual-instrument title, Sousaphone Hero, isn't selling as well as the company had hoped, despite a $25M development budget, innovative wireless sousaphone controller, and versions available for PS3, 360, and Wii. Complaints range from

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• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Adds Eleven New Tracks

  Published: August 2, 2007, 5:17 pm

  Tags: Activision, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Games, Afi, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Dragonforce, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 3, Guitar Hero Iii, Guitar Hero Iii Legends Of Rock, Guns N Roses, Iron Maiden, Jade Puget, Legends Of Rock, Queens Of The Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Pep

  rock stars like Jade Puget, guitarist for AFI, a band featured in the game is anticipating the upcoming release of the Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and wants fans to know that “if you’re going to start playing Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, make sure you have, say, the next 2 years free, because that’s all you’re

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• More Instruments in Guitar Hero's Future

  Published: August 2, 2007, 7:19 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Activision, Games, Edinburgh International Festival, Guitar Controller, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero Franchise, Harmonix, Janco, Mtv, Product Evolution

  precise - Activision’s Guitar Hero franchise will most likely be adding new or more instruments to the Guitar Hero franchise in 2008. According to industry analyst Janco, Activision could see better numbers and reap more benefits than EA since they purchased the franchise, as opposed to EA giving distribution rights to MTV and Harmonix.

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• Metallica Classic Song Featured in Guitar Hero III

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:40 am

  Tags: Games Industry, Activision, Album, Guitar Hero 3, Metallica, One, Song

  to turn attention towards Guitar Hero III. While some of the songs for GH3 have been announced, there are a few big names still to be revealed. One of the biggest, as just hinted at by Activision, is Metallica. Yes, Metallica. The same band that not so long ago started the fight against digital music services such as Napster. Seems their

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• Strictly For Bedroom Shredders: Portable Guitar Amp Features USB Output For Easy Recording

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:11 pm

  Tags: Amp, Crate, Guitar, Strictly For Bedroom Shredders, Usb

  announced a new portable guitar amp that has a USB outlet for direct computer recording. The Crate Profiler 5 seems useful for those who want to quickly record a riff without taking the time (or spending the money) to hook up a mixer or interface box. The 5 watt amp features digital effects processing and can run off 6 AA batteries or AC

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• Crate ships USB-equipped Profiler 5 mini guitar amplifier

  Published: August 4, 2007, 5:53 am

  Tags: Amp, Amplifier, Audio, Crate, Guitar, Music, Profiler 5, Profiler5, Usb

  This five-watt combo guitar amp measures in at less than eight-inches tall and weighs just six-pounds, and aside from giving users the option of powering it via an AC adapter or six AA cells, there's also an auxiliary input for rocking along with your DAP. More important, however, is the rear-mounted USB port (shown after the jump), which

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• Line6 releases the Pocket POD for tone on the go

  Published: August 4, 2007, 6:31 pm

  Tags: Amp Modeling, Amplifier, Ampmodeling, Guitar, Guitar Amp, Guitaramp, Line6, Modeling Guitar Amp, Modelingguitaramp, Pocketpod, Pod, Vyzex

  about modeled solid-state guitar tone, sometimes firing up that 800-watt tube amp just isn't feasible -- which is where Line6's new Pocket POD comes in. Essentially a miniature version of the company's popular POD amp modelers, the Pocket POD features 300 presets based on vintage and modern amps and cabs developed in conjunction with several

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• Guitar Hero: Fully Functional LEGO Guitar Hero Controller Shreds Other Plastic Guitars

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Controllers, Gadgets, Guitar Hero, Guitars, Lego, Peripherals, Videogames

  fully functional LEGO Guitar Hero controller is definitely one of the better DIY video game peripherals we've seen—it's exponentially more attractive than the last homemade GH controller we saw, anyway. How does it work? The maker loses a bit of DIY cred by dumping the guts from a real GH controller into the LEGO case, but we'll let

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