Activision made it known this past July at E3 that Metallica’s upcoming album Death Magnetic would be coming to both Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero World Tour, but today confirmed a few more details before its release this coming Friday. Along with the tracks from the album, two exclusive versions of “Suicide & Redemption” [...]

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 [...]

Dragonforce, the band known mostly by gamers for their finger-numbing track “Through The Fire and Flames” on Guitar Hero III, will be making an encore appearance with a new track pack for the game next month on August 21.
Confirming the details on the Roadrunner Records news page, “Operation Ground and Pound” and “Revolution Deathsquad” will [...]

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 [...]

Activision announced yesterday during Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference that Metallica’s upcoming new album, Death Magnetic, will be released simulataneously as DLC for Guitar Hero III when it hits stores. It will release again during the release of Guitar Hero: World Tour, in addtion to a R.E.M. track pack.
“Our strong and balanced portfolio illustrates our ongoing [...]

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 [...]

Activision’s Guitar Hero III got some more mainstream attention last night, as two new commercials debuted for the game during the Fox’s American Idol finale. In the commercials, finalists David Archuleta and eventual winner David Cook rocked out with their wireless Les Paul guitar controllers parodying Tom Cruise’s famous scene from Risky Business.
“We continue to [...]