AOL  |  Mail  |  You might also like BigDownload, Games.com, PlaySavvy, and Joystiq

Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero 5 goes straight to the top of the UK charts

Guitar Hero 5, which is like the tenth (give or take a couple) installment in the series, has resonated with UK consumers and hit a high note atop the Chart Track all-formats c...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 09/14/2009

  • Written By: Joystiq
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

Music game sales down 46%, still third best-selling genre

According to NPD, and as reported by Edge Online, the music game genre has taken quite a tumble in 2009. Thus far, year-to-date sales have declined by a whopping 46%. And yet, ...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 09/12/2009

  • Written By: Joystiq
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

Activision: Courtney Love agreed to Cobain avatar

This morning, we reported on Courtney Love's tweeted allegations that the ghastly Kurt Cobain avatar was included in Guitar Hero 5 without her consent. Though the company didn't...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 09/10/2009

  • Written By: Joystiq
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

Guitar Hero: The Beatles sends us into a terrifying alternate universe

Have you ever wondered why single-band Guitar Hero games meet with a chorus of groans, but when Rock Band does it, it's assumed to be the best thing ever? This video depicting a...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 09/07/2009

  • Written By: Joystiq
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

How Metallica helped sell Paul McCartney on The Beatles: Rock Band

If you come down with a chronic case of Beatlemania on Sept. 9, you could have someone unlikely to thank for it: Metallica. Speaking with The Guardian, Paul McCartney describes...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 09/07/2009

  • Written By: Joystiq
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

Harmonix founders detail the company's failure-ridden road to success

Believe it or not, things weren't always going so well for Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchise developers Harmonix. Starting out in 1995 as a "music tech" company, founders Ale...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 09/03/2009

  • Written By: Joystiq
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

Rock Band: Radiohead isn't real, is real funny

According to our precise calculations, roughly 10 gazillion versions of various Guitar Hero and Rock Band games now exist. And even though Radiohead has done its fair share of ...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 09/03/2009

  • Written By: Joystiq
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

Guitar Hero 5: September DLC announced all at once

Activision has announced a few weeks' worth of Guitar Hero 5 DLC today. Following tomorrow's release of The Rolling Stones tracks, selections from Street Sweeper Social Club, AF...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 09/02/2009

  • Written By: Joystiq
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

Want Guitar Hero and Rock Band for 50% Off?

If you were cheap and wanted to wait until prices on all the music games dropped, your day has arrived.

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 06/09/2009

  • Written By: Micheal Mullen
  • Rating:

Read this Feature

Even better financial numbers announced by Activision Blizzard

TEST Filed under: Biz A few weeks ago, publisher Activision Blizzard predicted revenues of $860 million for their last fiscal quarter (which ended on March 31). Today the offici...

  • Type: Feature
  • Posted: 05/07/2009

  • Written By: BigDownload
  • Rating:

Read this Feature


Advertisement

ON TWITTER

Latest Tweets from Guitar Hero

Also on AOL