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 In Baby”
Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Queen & David [...]

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 your strap to the right [...]

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 ones I [...]

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 take [...]

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 the $249 of [...]