August 24, 2008

Our First Fake Plastic Rock God?

Remember iamchris4life, who got the perfect score on the hardest Guitar Hero Song? He’s now featured in the New York Times in an article titled Rec-Room Wizard:

Every Guitar Hero needs a nemesis, and Chris found his in a song called “Through the Fire and Flames,” a track that appears in the game Guitar Hero III: [...]

August 13, 2008

Basic Instructions on Guitar Hero

I thought this Basic Instructions strip “How to Get the Most Entertainment for Your Video Gaming Dollar” — which references Guitar Hero — was quite funny.

Warrant’s Cherry Pie, of course, is a song in Guitar Hero II.

For an extra-double-plus dose of absurdity, here’s the actual Cherry Pie video. The symbology and mythology in this video [...]

August 6, 2008

New Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Size

I noticed when the first info on Guitar Hero World Tour was released that the new guitars were larger:

These guitars are significantly larger, perhaps to mirror the the more realistic size of the Rock Band stratocasters.

Thanks to a scan of a UK Stuff Magazine article on Guitar Hero World Tour, this is now confirmed. Here’s [...]