After months of trickling out press releases with song announcements, Activision finally came clean this afternoon with the whole shebang announcing the entire setlist for Guitar Hero World Tour.
The soundtrack will spand over 40 years of rock and feature 86 tracks from artists such as Metallica, The Doors, Coldplay, Jimi Hendrix, and even Michael Jackson. [...]

Continuing with the Guitar Hero World Tour announcements this week, Activision named a few more acts this morning that will be on the game’s soundtrack.
This time around, Police frontman and bassist Sting joins the party, both as a playable character and with of his group’s best known songs “Demolition Man”. In additon, the popular alternative [...]

Activision revealed this morning that they have inked partnership deals with a number of instrument and equipment makers for Guitar Hero World Tour. Through the game’s modes, players can expect to see the following brands:
Ampeg, Audio-Technica, EMG Pickups, Ernie Ball, Evans Drumheads, Guitar Center, Krank Amplification, Orange County Drum & Percussion, Pork Pie Percussion, Regal [...]

A few months back, Performance Design Products revealed that they were working on Aly & AJ themed Guitar controllers for both the PlayStation 2 and Wii, and today they showed off the peripherals for the first time, with endorsers in tow .

Aly’s guitar features heart-and-crossbones print in pink and brown giving it a rocker chick [...]

Those folks who didn’t jump at the chance to buy the Guitar Hero III soundtrack album last year missed out on the opportunity to download the three track Interscope Records Pack that exclusively came with it. Nearly ten months later, Activision is making them available for everyone else to play.
Staring on Thursday August 7, the [...]

Activision will be releasing a new downloadable track pack for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock this coming Thursday. Dubbed the Guitar Virtuoso Pack, the DLC will, naturally, feature a collection of reknowned shredders with some of their most notable tracks.
Included in the Guitar Virtuoso Pack will be Joe Satriani’s 1987 song “Surfing with [...]

What happens when you take a popular music game franchise, focus it primarily on one band, and bring it out in the middle of the summer at full price right before your next full sequel? Guitar Hero: Aerosmith happens, that’s what. While the game plays as solid as any in the series thus far, there’s [...]

Introducing the Guitar Hero franchise to the Nintendo DS is apparently paying off for Activision, as the company revealed this morning that Guitar Hero: On Tour has sold in excess of 300,000 in its first week of release. In doing so, the game is now Activision’s best DS launch, in addition to being in their [...]

Guitar Hero III is getting ready to fly into the danger zone, as Activision announced this morning that the Grammy award-winning theme to Top Gun is headed to the game’s song list as a free downloadable track.
“The instrumental, guitar-heavy theme was immortalized in the hit film that inspired a generation of young men to awkwardly [...]

Todd McFarlane’s known for a lot of things, mainly Venom, Spawn, his love of sports memorbilia, and his notable action figure line. Today, his McFarlane Toys brand announced that they’ll be adding another lineup of toys into the fold: Guitar Hero.
According to company via MTV Multiplayer’s Steven Totilo, the toys will each have 15-18 moving [...]

Disney Channel stars Aly & AJ will be getting their own video game accessories line this fall, as they have partnered with Performance Design Products to launch a line of upcoming products aimed at female gamers.
The first of those products, coming in September, will be a line of guitar controllers for the Wii and PS2 [...]

More free DLC for Guitar Hero III is on the way, as Activision announced today that Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain’s song “I am Murloc” will arrive on both the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store on June 26.
“World of Warcraft players will remember the hit “I am Murloc” as the tongue-in-cheek tribute to the [...]

There is a new champion in the world of Guitar Hero…for now.
According to a statement released earlier today by Guiness World Records, Danny Johnson of Grapeville, Texas surpassed previous record holder (and new TAC spokesperson) Chris Chike’s official verified score of 880,920 on Dragonforce’s “Through the Fire and Flames”, amassing 890,971 points of his own. [...]

Guitar Hero and NASCAR are about to cross paths with each other.
Chip Ganassi Racing, Activision, and Target jointly announced this morning that the upcoming Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will be prominently fetaured on Dario Franchitti’s No. 40 Dodge on June 29 when the game releases.
“We’re very excited to have Guitar Hero bring together two great American [...]

There’s going to be quite a bit of DLC coming Guitar Hero III’s way this month, as Activision announced that five new track packs will be arriving on the game throughout June.
The first of the five packs, the Motörhead pack, was released this morning, but details on another one of the packs was revealed as [...]

Aerosmith’s not going to be the only band with their own Guitar Hero game if Lars Ulrich’s got anything to say about it.
According to a report posted earlier today by GameSpot, a recent SEC filing over the weekend by Activision has confirmed that Metallica will be the next band in line to highlight a Guitar [...]

Coldplay’s new single Violet Hill will be making its way to Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock next month, according to a report on Entertainment Weekly.
“[‘Violet Hill’] is the first Coldplay song to be put on ‘Guitar Hero,’” Martin bragged to EW on a recent visit to the band’s London studio. And unlike much of [...]

It appears that being a virtual rock star is beginning to pay off for some folks. This morning, The Ant Commandos, makers of guitar controllers that are compatible with both Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, revealed that they’ve signed 16-year old Chris Chike as their new spokesperson in an exclusive, long-term deal to promote [...]

Last Thanksgiving, Xbox 360 owners who had Guitar Hero III got a pleasant surprise when Activision and Bungie Studios came together to provide Steve Vai’s popular Mjolnir Mix to the Halo 3 theme song. PlayStation 3 owners were left out in the cold at the time, but that’s about to change.
Earlier this morning, Sony gave [...]

The upcoming Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (and possibly Guitar Hero: On Tour) tracklist got a new addition today, as “One Armed Scissor” by At the Drive-In was confirmed by the band to be in the game. While the press release specifically mentions Guitar Hero IV, this wouldn’t be the first time a band confused which game [...]