I just got an email from our local record chain, Amoeba Records, letting me know that they’re not only selling Guitar Hero World Tour, but in fact they’re also a venue in the game! How cool is that? These fake plastic rock games, at their heart, are all about new ways to enjoy music. With [...]

Now that the guitar and drums are fully wireless in the Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour band kits, there’s only one band member left who hasn’t achieved glorious wireless freedom yet: The vocalist. That’s about to change, however, with the introduction of the Logitech Wireless Microphone. It’s a bit pricey at $80, [...]

Guitar Hero: World Tour will be released in a week or two. It’s still unknown how well the Guitar Hero franchise, newly expanded from a guitar game into a full band game, will do compared to the firmly established, original full band game, Rock Band. Rock Band is on its second version and has literally [...]

As I noted in Are Rock Band Drums Like Real World Drums? the drums are the most realistic part of fake plastic rock. Or at least the most analogous to their real world musical counterparts. As more evidence supporting this fact, G4 just published an interesting review of the $299 ION Drum Rocker Premium Drum [...]