Several good previews of Guitar Hero World Tour emerged this weekend:

IGN Guitar Hero World Tour Preview
GameSpy Guitar Hero World Tour Preview
GameSpot Guitar Hero World Tour Preview

I highly recommend reading the IGN article as it had the best information, but I’ll summarize so you don’t have to.

The biggest news was probably the first detailed pictures of [...]

If you enjoy Rock Band’s World Tour mode, eventually you’ll get around to the fabled Endless Setlist.

The Endless Setlist is a gig in Moscow. But not just any gig. This gig is 58 songs in length — that’s right, fifty-eight songs!

In order to complete this gig, you must play all 58 songs included with Rock [...]

I suppose it was inevitable — someone achieved a perfect score on the most difficult song in Guitar Hero III, Dragonforce’s “Through the Fire and Flames”, on Expert difficulty.

It’s an astonishing 3,722 note streak for a final score of 987,786!

I can’t even finish the Expert campaign in Guitar Hero III due to rampant skill level [...]

After writing about The Fake Plastic Rock Stage Experience, I immersed myself in the strange, fascinating world of stage lighting effects.

I found out two things that drove me to buy my own stage lights:

Many stage lights are sound activated and include their own embedded microphones, so they “just work” out of the box.
There’s an [...]

Have you visited the official Harmonix Rock Band Blog? If not, you should. There’s a great entry on one of my absolute favorite bits of DLC so far, the complete first 1978 album from seminal pop new wave band The Cars.

The producer of the first Cars album was Roy Thomas Baker, an Englishman best-known for [...]