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 [...]

Bringing Guitar Hero to the Nintendo DS certainly sounds like a challenging proposition any way you slice it. Faced with the task of converting a peripheral-based game to a portable system while retaining the original feel of the franchise, Activision and Vicarious Visions have ultimately managed to do so in Guitar Hero: On Tour. That’s [...]

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 [...]

Players of Activision’s Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock woke up to some new downloadable content for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this morning.
For PlayStation 3 owners, Kratos and Guitar Hero III clash as the rock mix “The End Begins (to Rock)” makes its way on the PlayStation Store for free. The MP3 [...]

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 [...]

Certainly looking to capture the feel of a cheesy infomercial (which is pulled off flawlessly, by the way), Activision debuted a new video for their upcoming Nintendo DS title, Guitar Hero: On Tour. In this “how to” trailer, players are taught how to set up the Guitar Grip peripheral as well as some basic gameplay [...]

Music video games have recently become big business thanks to the success of titles like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and today it was validated even more as the formation of a new music-based game company, Music Video Games (MvG), was unveiled.
Founded by Realtime Associates, Inc. president David Warhol and former TDK Mediactive CEO Vincent [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Following the recently published preview for the game in the latest issue of Game Informer, Activision this morning released the debut trailer for Guitar Hero World Tour (formerly known as Guitar Hero IV). In the video, accompanied with Lenny Kravitz’s Are You Gonna Go My Way, all of the game sections (including the new drum [...]

The Guitar Hero and Rock Band series of games got another competitor today, as Konami announced Rock Revolution for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS at their 2008 Gamers Day event.
Specifically looking to provide a definitive drum experience, the game will also give players the opportunity to play lead an bass guitars [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this afternoon, Activision reported their sales results for both the fourth quarter of 2008 as well as the entire fiscal year ending on March 31. Revenues for the company in the fourth quarter were $602.5 million, nearly doubling their efforts from the previous year.
Thanks in large part to the success of games like Call [...]