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Today's Fresh Blogs...| 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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| 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 |
| 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 the title's $345 price tag, repetitive gameplay, lack of non-marching-band music, and unresponsive "oompah" meter, |
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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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| 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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| Fully-functional Guitar Hero controller crafted from Lego |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 5:16 pm |
| Tags: Diy, Guitar Hero, Guitarhero, Homebrew, Lego |
| but this fully-functional Guitar Hero controller crafted by an unnamed tipster to TechEBlog might just be the best bit of Lego hackery to date. Based on a Gibson Explorer guitar, the Lego axe neatly conceals the guts of a standard PS2 Guitar Hero controller, and also ups the size to something more closely resembling an actual guitar. While |
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| The LEGO Guitar Hero Controller |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 9:09 pm |
| Tags: Gamer Life, Sony, Controller, Guitar Hero, Lego |
| this controller for Guitar Hero almost entirely out of LEGOs. Besides that, it was practically constructed around an actual controller, so it is fully functional. “This is a custom guitar controller for the game Guitar Hero, modeled after a Gibson Explorer guitar, with an extra large scratch-plate for style. I gutted the real |
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| Wii Bundle for Guitar Hero III Unveiled |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 12:40 am |
| Tags: Activision, Nintendo, Games, Bundle, Guitar Hero, Legends Of Rock, Wii |
| your own personal axe. The guitar controller will also be fully wireless, with a slot to fit a Wii-mote into. You can expect to find all this in stores on October 21 for $89.99. Via QJ.net ---Related Articles at Gaming Today:Blockbuster's Top Ten VideogamesNew Tracks for Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80sThe LEGO Guitar Hero ControllerAd |
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| New Downloadable Content for Guitar Hero II |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Activision, Microsoft, Game Consoles, Games, Dlc, Downloadable Content, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, Live, Market Place, Marketplace, My Chemical Romance, Red Octane, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox360 |
| song. Just glancing at the Guitar Hero Forums, it seems these 3 new songs are relatively easy to the Guitar Hero veteran. I’ve played quite a bit of Guitar Hero myself, so I feel confident in gauging my ability with others on that forum (and scorehero too). Based on current feedback skilled players are giving on these 3 new songs, I think |
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| Yet Another Guitar Hero III Track Unveiled |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 9:30 pm |
| Tags: Sony, Activision, Nintendo, Microsoft, Games, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, 360, Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Gh3, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero Iii, Indie Rock, Legends Of Rock, Nintendo, Playstation, Ps3, She Bangs The Drums, Stone Roses, Wii, Xbox, Xbox360 |
| RedOctane Europe. “The Guitar Hero franchise has already established itself as part of mainstream pop culture, so it was a perfect place to unveil one of our UK-originated songs. The Guitar Hero road show moves from here to Leipzig, where we’ll be announcing a whole new stack of European songs for Guitar Hero III: Legends of |
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| DS version of Guitar Hero III to feature a guitar controller? |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 10:23 am |
| Tags: Controller, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 3, Guitar Hero Iii, Guitarhero, Guitarheroiii, Redoctane |
| that the DS version of Guitar Hero III would include a guitar controller "as long as it makes sense and it plays well." Huang went on to say that RedOctane is "exploring ways to get peripherals on a DS game," and that the company is working on approach with Nintendo's assistance. Given the novel controllers we've already seen hit the DS, |
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