After making their Rock Band debut yesterday with their new single “Hammerhead”, The Offspring confirmed today on their official website that they’ve got six more songs headed the game’s way.
“Come Out And Play [Keep ‘Em Separated]“
“Self Esteem“
“Gone Away“
“All I Want“
“Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)“
”The Kids Aren‘t Alright”
No release date was given for when the [...]

Video Games Live is slated to perform a concert at NVISION 08, as was confirmed by NVIDIA this morning. In addition to bringing the popular show to the event, winners of the NVISION 08 gaming tournaments will have the opportunity to join the stage with the musicians to be a part of the performance.
“Regardless of [...]

Nintendo will release a new DS bundle to coincide with the upcoming release of Activision’s Guitar Hero: On Tour. Sporting a Guitar Hero logo on the unit itself, the new sliver and black DS will come with a copy of the game and its Guitar Grip peripheral.
“This one-of-a-kind bundle makes Nintendo DS even more appealing [...]

Songs from the three finalists of 2007’s Dew Circuit Breakout will be next week’s Rock Band DLC, or at least part of it.
As confirmed by the Santa Barbara Independent tonight, “Bullets and Guns” by third-place band Them Terribles will be included, in addition to songs by runner-up The Material and winner The Myriad. The [...]

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 [...]

Three separate studies profiled at today’s 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine showed that active video games appeared to be helpful in encouraging young people to exercise.
The first of the studies, done by Gregory Brown, Ph. D., FACSM and his study team, examined energy expenditure for active games compared to sedentary [...]

Attendees of the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational will be in for a bit of a treat, as the company announced this morning that both Video Games Live and Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain will perform at the event.
“We’re looking forward to spending a great weekend with Blizzard gamers from around the world and then [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you’ve been paying attention to any trailers released for Atari’s upcoming Alone in the Dark, you’ll know that alongside seeing the many uses for sticky tape, one of the standout items of the game thus far are its soundtrack.
Atari apparently realizes that as well, as they announced this morning that they will release an [...]

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 [...]

Final Fantasy XII composer Hitoshi Sakimoto announced today his intentions of branching out to score American games by hooking up with Four Bars Intertainment.
The firm, who has represented other composers such as Inon Zur (Fallout 3, Crysis), Jason Hayes (World of Warcraft), and Jack Wall (Myst) will now do the same for Sakimoto in regions [...]

Rock Band’s DLC for the week of May 20 was announced today by Harmonix and, as was expected by many, the track’s from next week’s European release of the game are headed our way:
Beetlebum as made famous by Blur (cover)
Hier Kommt Alex by Die Toten Hosen (master)
Countdown to Insanity by H-BlockX (master)
Perfekte Welle by Juli [...]

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 [...]

Rock Band’s DLC for the week of May 13 has been announced today by Harmonix:
Hanging on the Telephone by Blondie (master track)
Train in Vain by The Clash (master track)
Kool Thing by Sonic Youth (master track)
The songs will be priced at $1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points) and will appear on Tuesday for the Xbox 360, followed [...]

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 [...]