Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Hero on Oct 15th, 2007 3 Comments »
Just when you thought you had seen it all when it comes to Guitar Hero mods, along comes this: TeslaCoil.net has created a Tesla Coil that is controlled by an Xbox 360 Guitar Hero controller. Each fret on the Guitar Hero controller has its own pot that controls the visual and audio frequencies of the [...]
Posted in Guitar Hero, Guitar Lessons, News on Oct 14th, 2007 4 Comments »
An article appearing on the Telegraph web site discusses technology’s role in influencing people to take up musical instruments, especially the guitar. For example, the number of British students who are choosing music in their secondary education (GCSE) has increased by 23% since 2000. This is according to the Telegraph article ‘So you wanna be [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Hero, Videos on Oct 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
Guitar Hero III is not even out yet, and the one song the games developers have called ‘unbeatable’ was beaten at a recent preview party, reports GWN. The song is ‘Through the Fire and Flames’ by DragonForce, and the Guitar Hero was Nick Tan, editor of Game Revolution. Nick beat the game in expert mode [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Hero on Aug 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
Guitar Hero-mania is so out of control, that someone came up with this concept. A DS Guitar Hero Controller that will allow you to play from anywhere. It even has a rotating neck and whammy bar. Throw in a headphone jack, and perhaps it could actually catch on. Meanwhile, this guy gutted out a Guitar [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Hero, Videos on Jul 18th, 2007 No Comments »
A couple of Israeli software engineers known as the GarageGeeks, have developed a Guitar Hero playing robot, known as ‘Guitar Heronoid’. Guitar Heronoid is a headless department store mannequin with two computers for a brain. One computer captures the video output from the game frame-by-frame, and sends it to the other computer, which detects the [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Hero, News, Videos on Jul 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
The 2007 World Series of Video Games has been going on this weekend in Dallas, Texas. Among the events was the Guitar Hero II competition. The competition was won by Freddie Wong, who beat 15 other finalists by playing ‘Less Talk, More Rock’, receiving a perfect score of 10 on Style and Showmanship by celebrity [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Guitar Hero, News, Updates, Videos on Jun 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
A few weeks ago, we posted some of the songs from the setlist for the video game, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80′s by Activision. There has been one song removed from the original setlist. According to 1UP.com, I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow has been removed. A nearly complete setlist can be viewed [...]