I’ve always loved the art direction and visual style of Rock Band. Most of it was created by Harmonix artist John Dee: HMX artist John Dee created some of the most memorable art in Rock Band. His designs are featured not only in game menus and backgrounds, but also on Rock Band t-shirts, messenger bags, [...]

Most of the time, pre-order bonuses for games are crap. But not in the case of Guitar Hero: Metallica — the pre-order bonus is a second drum pedal for the Guitar Hero: World Tour drum kit. I picked mine up today: As you can see, it’s a simple splitter cable and second pedal, identical to [...]

One of the weirder Guitar Hero brand spinoffs is the Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker. It’s actually sort of an interesting idea, and riffs on the theme of the Air Guitar Championships I’ve touched on before. The Air Guitar Rocker consists of three items: Pick, Amplifier, and Belt buckle. You mount the belt buckle and [...]

Pwn or Die put together an amazing statistical analysis of all the songs in Rock Band to date. Here’s the genre breakdown. It’s an amazingly detailed article, with cool Rock Band themed graphs, to boot! Highly recommended. I did find it interesting that these are the top 5 genres of all 600+ songs in Rock [...]

I’ve talked about my electronic cowbell before, but plain cowbells work just as well in those “hit the mic” sections of Rock Band vocals. They’re a fun accessory to equip your fake plastic band with — as long as you hold the cowbell directly in front of the microphone, anyway. If you’re going to kick [...]