June 17, 2009

Fixing The Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Strum

Although the Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar is my current fake plastic axe of choice, there have been some issues with it. Besides the analog touchpad, which can be effectively ignored (and even disabled completely within the Guitar Hero: World Tour game options), the main problem people had with the GHWTar is that the strumbar [...]

June 15, 2009

MadCatz Premium Guitars

Remember the Mad Catz Precision Bass? Well, its wireless (and significantly improved) cousin has arrived in three different colors for $89.99. The first one had some definite issues (most troubling were reports of poor strumbar accuracy), so perhaps this second iteration will be the one that’s worth getting. Based upon the critically acclaimed Mad Catz [...]

June 12, 2009

The Beatles: Rock Band Trailers

The first substantive The Beatles: Rock Band details emerged at E3 last week. The animated intro sequence: There’s a fantastic frame-by-frame breakdown of the dozens of Beatles easter eggs in the animated intro. I had no idea! E3 trailer, featuring lots of gameplay: The game looks amazing; the customized “dreamscapes” for some of the songs, [...]