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Guitar Rock Tour: Guitar Hero-a-like for iPhone

November 14, 2008, 10:00 am by Simon Munk 1 comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Activision, Apple iPhone, gameloft, Guitar hero, Guitar Rock Tour, handheld gaming, Harmonix, MTV Games, Red Octane, Rock Band, videogames

Gameloft have released Guitar Rock Tour for the Apple iPhone (and other mobiles) – a music game that’ll be very familiar to fans of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Gameloft describe it as an “alternative to Activision’s Guitar Hero”, but you could just as well call it a fairly straight rip.

Guitar Hero Carabiner for (hard) rock climbers

November 12, 2008, 3:30 pm by James Holland Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: carabiner, Guitar hero, Toy

If you’re so addicted to Guitar Hero your fingers get twitchy every time you leave the house, we’ve found the perfect keyring-cum-safety device for you - the Guitar Hero Carabiner!

Musical instrument shops to sell Guitar Hero: World Tour

November 6, 2008, 10:00 am by Greg Strachan Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Activision, GH:WT, Guitar hero, instruments, music, rhythm games

Activision has partnered up with music distribution company Active Music, to have copies of Guitar Hero: World Tour sold in proper musical instrument shops across the UK. This is not (just) a desperate move to beat rival rhythm game, Rock Band 2, by sheer weight of numbers; there’s apparently some rational thought to it:

The Beatles videogame? Rock Band company working on it

October 30, 2008, 3:18 pm by Simon Munk Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Apple Corps, Guitar hero, Harmonix, mtv, News, Rock Band 2, The Beatles, videogames

Apple Corps and MTV/Harmonix are set to collaborate on a videogame based on The Beatles. And from what various online reports of a teleconference are suggesting, the game is not set to simply be either a download pack or expansion for the Rock Band series, but an “experiential progression through and celebration of the music and artistry of The Beatles” – in other words, an all new game.

Rock ’til it burns. Wii guitar gets recalled

October 23, 2008, 11:57 am by Simon Munk Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: china, Guitar hero, Nintendo Wii, product recall, Rage Guitar, Rock Band

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of Rage Wireless Guitars. One of the Wii peripherals, which has already sold over 55,000 units in the US, was found to have a defective circuit board that caused batteries to leak acid, burning its user.

Pre-order Guitar Hero: World Tour, get a free bass

September 19, 2008, 12:00 pm by Sam Kieldsen Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Activision, Guitar hero, Guitar Hero World Tour

Guitar Hero publishers Activision have announced that anyone who pre-orders the £150 “super bundle” of upcoming multi-instrument rhythm rocker Guitar Hero: World Tour will get a £50 plastic bass guitar peripheral for free.

Guitar Hero: Hendrix in the pipeline?

September 18, 2008, 10:00 am by Sam Kieldsen 1 comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Activision, Guitar hero, Guitar Hero: Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix, Slash

If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a plastic guitar with your teeth before setting it alight on your living room floor, get ready for some good news: it seems that a Jimi Hendrix-themed edition of Guitar Hero is in the works.

Take your Guitar Hero riffs to the next level with Gibson

June 24, 2008, 10:00 am by Pete Jenkinson 1 comment

Filed under Robots Tags: Gibson, Guitar, Guitar hero, peripheral, Robots

Console based strummers and pluckers were treated to the latest peripheral for the Guitar Hero game last week, for those of you think their skills have set them on the road to a bigger stage check out the latest gear from Gibson.