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The Top 10 Songs that Should Never be in Rock Band

September 17, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’m sure it’s happened to many of you, listening to the radio either in the car or at work and hearing a particular song and thinking, “Damn, this song really should be in Rock Band!”  Apparently this happened so much that our friend DrScotto began to reply with simply, “EVERY song should be in Rock […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Music, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, Music, rockband, rockband 2, songs, top 10, Video Games, videogames

“Guitar Hero IV” will feature a Band… of Rock…

May 13, 2008 by Dave

Rumored for a few weeks now, it seems that confirmation has come out that the next real installment of the Guitar Hero franchise (skipping over certain spin-off products) will feature a drum set to augment your Guitar and Bass rocking. Sound a bit familiar? Activizzard says that their drum set will be totally bitching, and […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, rock band, rockband

Let the selling out begin

February 15, 2008 by Dave

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is due out in June. This confirms rumors that Guitar Hero is releasing a few versions focusing around one band per game (though the initial rumor was U2.) Are there really big enough Aerosmith fans who want to buy a whole game of their stuff? Why isn’t this just extra downloadable content […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Video Games Tagged With: aerosmith, guitar hero, rock band

Guitar Hero for Reals?

February 7, 2008 by Bartoneus

My wife was kind enough to show me this article about Guitar Rising at Gizmodo, which looks like a great attempt at creating essentially a game based on guitar hero that can actually teach you to play the guitar. The game uses any real guitar hooked up to your sound card, featuring “actual songs” and […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Music, News, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, guitar rising, rhythm games, rock band

Review: Freezepop "Future Future Future Perfect"

January 8, 2008 by Dave

Freezepop isn’t a household band name, but gamers have a greater chance of recognizing their brand of catchy synthpop. The band has contributed songs to a few video games (most notably for bonus tracks in Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, and Rock Band– one of the members of the band works for Harmonix.) They also […]

Filed Under: Music, Reviews Tagged With: freezepop, guitar hero, indie music, Reviews, synthpop

Inq. of the Week: Are You Not Entertained?

January 7, 2008 by Bartoneus

We had a gathering last night for the premiere of the new breed of American Gladiators (on NBC), and it was definitely two of the most entertaining hours of television I’ve ever experienced. Tonight there is at least one more episode on at 8pm, and we will definitely be posting a review / recap later […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Television Tagged With: alignment, American Gladiators, D&D, games, guitar hero, malibu, rock band

First Impressions: Guitar Hero 3 (Xbox 360)

October 29, 2007 by Dave

I strolled right into my local GameStop yesterday and picked up Guitar Hero 3 (game only) for the Xbox 360. (Also grabbed the Orange Box, but resisted Halo 3 for now.) Using my trusty band THAC0, I’d estimate I’ve played through about half of the game on Medium, maybe a little more. I still don’t […]

Filed Under: Music, Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, xbox 360

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