July 31, 2009

Guitar Hero 5 Song List Revealed

The full Guitar Hero 5 song list was finally unveiled. 3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite” Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm” Blink-182 – “The Rock Show” Dire Straits – “Sultans Of Swing” Jimmy Eat World – “Bleed American” Johnny Cash – “Ring Of Fire” Megadeth – “Sweating Bullets” Mötley Crüe – “Looks That Kill” Muse – “Plug [...]

July 28, 2009

How to Look Hot While Playing Rock Band (or Guitar Hero)

This video, How to Look Hot While Playing Rock Band is … well, hilarious. I am only posting this for fun, of course, but there is some actual truth here underneath the silly glitz: Dress the part — like a rocker! Trick out your guitars or drumpads with decals. Be a hot chick. (err…) Adjust [...]

The Many Robots of Guitar Hero

Since the original Guitar Hero was released in 2005, every hardcore geek who has played it has wondered, at one point or another, the same thing: Hmm. Couldn’t we build a robot to play songs perfectly? Sure you can! There have been many successful attempts to build Guitar Hero playing robots. Here are all the [...]

July 22, 2009

Rock Band Network

Remember the lackluster GHTunes feature of Guitar Hero: World Tour, where you create your own songs from canned instrument sounds by pressing buttons on the guitar and drum controllers? It’s a plausible idea, but in practice the “songs” produced this way sound like MIDI songs gone horribly, horribly wrong. If you don’t believe me, just [...]

July 20, 2009

New Logitech Ultra Premium Guitars

Remember the original Logitech Ultra Premium Fake Plastic Guitar? It must have been a modest success, because Logitech has introduced two new, updated ultra premium fake plastic guitars: Playstation 3 Black Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller (v2) Xbox 360 Orange Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller MSRP is $199 on both models, a small but welcome drop from [...]

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