Tag: GUITAR-HERO

For nearly as long as 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' have existed, so has the debate over whether or not such games could actually teach gamers to play real instruments. Guitar geek Freddie W. has answered with the most convincing affirmative to date: 'Future Rhythm Games.' Freddie doesn't think it's practical quite yet, but we, to paraphrase that song from 'Rock Band 2,' won't stop believin'. ...

Gone are the days when a band used radio or TV to hype a new release. Now, it's video games that create chart-topping records. According to Rolling Stone, Activision announced Monday at E3 that an unreleased Soundgarden track entitled 'Black Rain' will debut on 'Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.' When the game is released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii on September 28th, it will mark the first ...

Call us musical Luddites if you will, but we're wondering why people can't seem to leave the venerable, and long-ago perfected, electric guitar alone. Gibson just keeps jamming more and more robotics inside, EverTune has developed a potentially sustain sapping bridge that never falls out of tune, and Worst of CES honoree YouRock Guitar puts half stings and cheesy MIDI tones inside a video game ...

Days before the release of 'The Beatles: Rock Band,' some musicians are speaking out against video games that allow folks to live out their rock and roll fantasies with the press of a button. Bill Wyman, former bassist of the Rolling Stones, and Nick Mason, drummer for Pink Floyd, both told BBC News that games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' make folks less likely to learn real instruments. ...

After years of negotiations, rumors, and quite probably begging, the Beatles catalog will finally be available for digital download -- but not on iTunes, and we're sure Steve Jobs is none too happy (despite numerous teaser announcements and rumors, the Beatles still aren't on Apple's online music store, or anywhere else online, for that matter). So if not Apple with its iTunes Store, then who's ...