You may recall a lawsuit filed last year by Gibson Guitars against Activision, owners of the Guitar Hero game. Gibson’s lawsuit claimed that the video game infringed a patent of theirs, and requested that Activision obtain a license from Gibson to distribute the video game. There has been a recent development to this story. Last [...]
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Activision has just announced that their much anticipated Guitar Hero Metallica video game will be released on March 29, 2009 for Xbox and PS3. Metallica is the second band to have their own Guitar Hero game; Aerosmith being the first. The game will include the following tracks, provided by FEARNet. All Nightmare Long Battery Creeping [...]
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It’s time to say goodbye to 2008. In a tradition started last year, let’s review some of the popular and interesting guitar stories talked about here at GuitarMX in 2008: How Can This Be Eddie Van Halen? The Van Halen reunion tour started showing some troubles as 2008 began. In a pre-New Years concert, Eddie [...]
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Posted in Guitar Hero, News on Nov 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
Yngwie Malmsteen recently gave his blessing to the Guitar Hero game. He attributes the game for creating a new interest in his music among young kids, who have been showing up to his shows, something that wasnt happening happening a few years ago. Here’s what he recently told the Artisan News Service: I was sitting [...]
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Posted in Guitar Hero, News, Videos on Nov 23rd, 2008 4 Comments »
A robot has recently proven that you don’t need soul to play Guitar Hero. A robot called “Cythbot”, developed by Cyth Systems, can play through Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” at Expert level with up to 98% accuracy. Here’s a video of the feat. Cythbot works a lot like Guitar Heronoid, a Guitar Hero playing [...]
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Posted in Guitar Hero, News on Sep 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Friday September 12, 2008 marks the release of Metallica’s 9th studio album called Death Magnetic. Not only will the album be available in stores on Friday, but it will also be available for download for Guitar Hero III. The Guitar Hero version of the album includes two renditions of their new instrumental “Suicide & Redemption”, [...]
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Posted in Guitar Hero, News on Aug 9th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warner Music Group, the third largest music publisher in the world, is threatening to pull their music from the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, because they feel they are not getting enough money from the use of their songs. Although MTV and Activision, makers of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, have paid [...]
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Posted in Guitar Hero, News on Jul 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
A new track pack for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is now available for download at the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live. The track pack has been dubbed the “Guitar Virtuoso Track Pack” and features the following songs by these great guitar virtuosos: “Surfing with the Alien” by Joe Satriani, “For the Love of [...]
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Posted in Guitar Hero on Jun 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Later this month, Activision will be releasing “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith”, a Guitar Hero game featuring Aerosmith songs only. Now it’s been revealed that Activision will be releasing “Guitar Hero: Metallica”, a Guitar Hero game featuring nothing but songs by Metallica. The news was released quietly in an SEC report by Activision: In fiscal 2009, we [...]
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Ted Nugent confirmed in a recent interview on a Detroit radio station that he is currently involved in the making of a future Guitar Hero game. It sounds like he could be one of the game bosses for the next Guitar Hero game, like Slash is in Guitar Hero III. Here’s what he had to [...]
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