For months now, Guitar Hero diehards have been hanging on every bread crumb of information released about World Tour, the forthcoming generation of their favorite video game. We knew about Hendrix, Ozzy and a handful of other artists on the track list. But now we have the press release in hand, and it includes 86 songs on-disk, featuring artists like R.E.M., Michael Jackson, Metallica, Coldplay, Nirvana, Interpol, Foo Fighters, Billy Idol, Beastie Boys and Dinosaur Jr., among others.
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For months now, Guitar Hero diehards have been hanging on every bread crumb of information released about World Tour, the forthcoming generation of their favorite video game. We knew about Hendrix, Ozzy and a handful of other artists on the track list. But now we have the press release in hand, and it includes 86 songs on-disk, featuring artists like R.E.M., Michael Jackson, Metallica, Coldplay, Nirvana, Interpol, Foo Fighters, Billy Idol, Beastie Boys and Dinosaur Jr., among others.
The Smashing Pumpkins will release their new single, “G.L.O.W.,” as part of the Guitar Hero: World Tour video game, before releasing it to the public.Found in:
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The band's gonna make it, Mom! I'm not going to be living in this basement forever!Guitar Hero may have the side effect of serving as a gateway drug to actual guitar playing, but everyone's favorite rock star simulator may soon be sapping the attendance rolls of high schools nationwide. Yes, in a sublime moment of life imitating art, one plucky teenager has decided to forgo the rest of his K-12 education to try his hand at the professional Guitar Hero circuit.
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It's not like we're obsessed or anything. It's just, well, air-guitaring only goes so far, and we've got this personal connection to the whole thing, you know?Found in:
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If you're looking to ride the lightning down to penny lane on a plastic guitar, you're going to have to wait, according to siblings and RedOctane founders Kai and Charles Huang. Despite the hordes of rumors circulating on the Internet (And watch out; that Internet is crazypants!) stating Metallica will be featured in a standalone game similar to Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the brothers Huang preempted the hearsay, for now: "We're not ready to comment about Metallica yet, but what I will say is
that we'd love to work with all of the top rock bands of all time,
whether it's Aerosmith or Metallica or AC/DC or Led Zeppelin. If we get an opportunity to work with those bands, we would love to do that." A Metallica song, "One," was featured in Guitar Hero 3.Found in:
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Who hasn't gone to an awesome live show and thought, "I want that! I want to rock that hard!" only to quickly realize that the last instrument you attempted to master was the recorder in third grade. (We're shaking our fists at you, "Frere Jacques.")
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Everyone knows that regardless of the gameplay tweaks, what really matters for every version of Guitar Hero (or Rock Band) is the music. The first of a series of artist-specific Guitar Hero games, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and its impending tracklist, have been under particular scrutiny because no one knew exactly what its music would entail. Would it be just Aerosmith, or would they let up and offer some Kenny Loggins and Toto to smooth out the set? Either way promised to disappoint many.Found in:
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Don’t expect the Guitar Hero franchise to stop growing any time soon. The latest news regarding the hugely popular game series confirms the earlier information Activision CEO Bobby Kotick discussed in an interview with Portfolio magazine regarding the increased instruments and selection of the new game. According to news confirmed by Activision, the upcoming installment of the game will feature vocals and drums instead of just a guitar, a newly redesigned guitar and wireless instruments. Differing slightly from Rock Band, Guitar Hero: World Tour will have three instead of four drum pads and the addition of two cymbals. But wait, there’s more!
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The fourth installment of the wildly popular Guitar Hero franchise will incorporate more instruments and add vocals.
In an interview with Portfolio magazine, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said that the addition of more instruments and vocals were a few of the significant changes gamers could expect when Guitar Hero IV hits stores later this year. Kotick said these elements were meant to increase the appeal of a game franchise that has already managed to cross a few generation gaps. “The age appeal is something we've never seen before -- seven-year-olds who have no idea who Aerosmith is are playing the band's music on Guitar Hero,” he told Portfolio. “So are 45-year-olds who spent a good portion of their lives following the band around. And so, that broad appeal is something that I think we're capitalizing on.”
Guitar Hero IV will also feature a more extensive song catalog, thanks to Activision’s merger with Vivendi Games. Vivendi is a subsidiary of Universal, which gives the game’s developers access to the Universal Music library. That access, according to Kotick, as well as the game’s growing pop-culture relevance, is making it easier and easier to draw big name artists to participate.
“Guitar Hero takes you as an artist to a whole different place in the popular culture right now,” he said. “Your relevance and importance to 17-year-olds is going to change in a way that you could never get any other way. And, you know, my five-year-old is walking around singing "Smoke on the Water." And so, and I think (artists are) starting to recognize that. It's changed their touring opportunities. It's changed the downloads. It's changed their album sales.”
The Guitar Hero series debuted in 2005, and has been a smash hit for Activision. Guitar Hero III accumulated more than $100 million worth of sales in its first week alone.
Top artists have been clamoring to make digital appearances in the game. Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash and former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morrello popped up in Guitar Hero III, and Activision will release Guitar Hero Aerosmith in June. Rumors have even been circulating that a Beatles-themed edition is also in the works.
No official release date has been announced for Guitar Hero IV. Instead, may we present actor Colin Firth’s first attempt at playing the game at our 2008 Sundance Party? Why yes, yes we may.
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If the executives at Hasbro had thought to put Simon's colored buttons on the neck of a guitar, they would surely have enough money by now to build a toy store on the outer rings of Saturn. In the mere two years since its debut, the Guitar Hero franchise has sold a mind-pretzling 14 million units in North America, which amounts to over a billion dollars in revenue (and that's not counting the money they've made from selling five million downloadable tracks for Guitar Hero III).
Question: How many more times will I use the suffix "-illion" in this news item?
Answer: Three.
Developed by MTV Games and Harmonix (the shop that originally designed Guitar Hero), Rock Band hasn't been doing too shabby either. The newcomer game has sold in excess of one million units and two and a half million downloadable tracks. Even though it's kind of interesting to think about all that cash and how many countries you could buy with it, the encouraging thing is that artists are making a percentage, however small. Maybe plastic discs won't be replaced by MP3s after all. Maybe they'll be replaced by playable Guitar Hero tracks. Maybe the major record labels will be bought out for millions by Activision.
Music is fun. It's nice to know that it's at least being used to further its core purpose and not for something strictly educational.
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Guitar Hero III is finally out and the Paste staff can't stop moshing with excitement. Partly because Red Octane included Tenacious D's riff-a-licious song "The Metal," which makes a cogent argument for metal's continued supremacy. And partly because when you finish certain songs, the score screen features your character making an appearance on the cover of some magazine called Paste. OH WAIT THAT'S US HOLY CRAP!
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In movies, the third installment in a series rarely lives up to the glory of the first. Remember the 3-D version of Jaws, the western themed Back to the Future, and the overly emotional Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 3? Luckily, when it comes to Guitar Hero, the third installment promises to be just as entertaining as its predecessors.
According to an informant at Aeropause, the folks at GameSpot have leaked out the track list for the upcoming Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The latest edition of the wildly popular game is said to comprise eight levels with several encores, boss characters and bonus tracks. Songs listed for the game vary in age and range, with everything from Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love,” Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing” and The Killers’ “When You Were Young.” Other artists rumored to be on the roster include Weezer, Black Sabbath, Muse, the Rolling Stones and Pat Benatar.
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