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Guitar Hero EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Expect fewer 'Hero' titles from Activision next year 15 No doubt about it -- a lot of Hero games came out this year. The list, in full: Guitar Hero: Metallica; Guitar Hero 5; Band Hero; DJ Hero; Band Hero for the Nintendo DS; Guitar Hero: Modern ... Unsurprisingly, Activision trademarks 'Drum Hero' 26 Despite slowing sales of music/rhythm games, Activision just keeps on keeping on. Recently, the publisher filed for trademark of "Drum Hero." You're shocked, I know.  This isn't the first ti... Activision responds to No Doubt lawsuit 41 Yesterday we learned that No Doubt was suing Activision over its appearance in Band Hero, seemingly encouraged by the Kurt Cobain situation and claiming that they never agreed to be used as in-ga... No Doubt suing Activision over appearance in Band Hero 41 Just as happened with Kurt Cobain's appearance in Guitar Hero 5 and the screams from the bloated, sucking mass which rallied to his defense, Activision is taking some heat for the use of likeness... No really, 'Mr Roboto' is playable in Band Hero, guys 14 Activision is really stuck on this "Biggest Music Event of the Year" thing when it comes to Band Hero.  Not everyone would agree, with all of the other big music events that have happened t... Guitar Hero DLC to bring Kravitz, Kiss, more in November 7 Guitar Hero 5 downloadable content for November has been announced... are you ready? GO! This November, Activision and Neversoft are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Lenny Kravitz's album Let ... Band Hero event to rawk Nintendo Store this Sunday 5 If you simply can't wait to rock out the Janet Jackson's "Black Cat," then you might want to hit up the Nintendo World Store in New York City this Sunday.  The store will be host to the Band... Band Hero DS impresses girls and big hair 19 Band Hero ships on November 3 for a wide variety of platforms, including your home consoles like the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. But when it comes to the Nintendo DS this fall, it brings al... Exclusive: Unearth rocks music games in new music video 34 On November 10, metalcore band Unearth will release a special edition set of its 2008 record, The March. Distributed by Metal Blade, the set comes with bonus tracks as well as a DVD of music vide... 30% of Guitar Hero players are female (slow news day) 22 In amazingly mindblowing news that everybody cares about, it's being stated that almost a third of all Guitar Hero players are female. Wow."A very large group really wants great guitar music... Guitar Hero: First videogame with 1 mil Facebook fans 12 I'm not exactly sure why this is an accomplishment, but it is something. Activision says that 1 million Facebook fans demonstrates the "global appeal and passion for the brand that is quickl... Analyst: DJ Hero demand is well below expectations 42 It's got the "Hero" name and is being backed by the Activision marketing machine, but analyst Doug Creutz of Cowan and Company believes DJ Hero is not setting the world afire as one mig... The Beatles: Rock Band defeats Guitar Hero 5 33 Evil publisher Activision recently claimed that Guitar Hero 5 outsold MTV Games' The Beatles: Rock Band and maintained its dominance in the music game genre. However, it looks like Activision may... Here's the full list of tracks for Band Hero 42 Fact: I have literally not paid any attention to Band Hero except for the time Nick told me Taylor Swift was in it.So then, today's unveiling of the game's full track list by Spinner is even more... Guitar Hero: Van Halen PS3 delayed due to spellig errer 24 Do you own a PS3? Are you due a free copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen? Excited about that? Well, put the excitement back in the box for just a little while longer. Activision is currently shipping ... Like, OMG! Band Hero demo hits Xbox LIVE Marketplace 24 Without any irony I must say that I'm really excited to play Band Hero. Don't laugh. While I'm listening to Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculating Infinity right now, next up in the queue is Ke... Activision yanking Kurt Cobain Guitar Hero 5 footage 18 Looks like the legal shenanigans between fish-faced Courtney Love and fish-hearted Activision are not over yet. The latest development in the battle for Kurt Cobain's soul has seen Activision yan... GH: Van Halen lands, yours should be there Monday 20 For a Guitar Hero game featuring a band as legendary as Van Halen Guitar Hero: Van Halen has had surprisingly little hype -- as in almost none. There's been a reveal trailer and some stuff with i... Okay, so OMG 'Mr. Roboto' is playable in Band Hero 35 So Activision sent out a Band Hero press release today and was all like, "OMG, Taylor Swift makes her videogame debut, guys!" They go on to say that, not only will she appear in the gam... Wolfmother, QOTSA rock Guitar Hero 5 DLC in October 33 Activision has unveiled its Guitar Hero 5 downloadable content plans for October, and they include five weeks of rock n' roll, baby. From Queens of the Stone Age to Billy Squier, from Wolfmother ... Activision denies that the music game genre is shrinking 38 The NPD group recently revealed figures that indicate a shrinking market for music games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero. The genre's biggest saturater, (evil) Activision, has naturally come ou... Guitar Hero 5 comfortably ahead of The Beatles: Rock Band 83 Get ready to be aggravated with consumers around the world because Activision is claiming that Guitar Hero 5 is comfortably outselling The Beatles: Rock Band. If you take a look at our reviews of... AFI track pack now available for Guitar Hero 5 17 Three songs from AFI are now available for Guitar Hero 5 on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. The three songs are:“Beautiful Thieves”“Girl’s Not Grey”“The M... Jon Bon Jovi supports Courtney Love's Guitar Hero 5 rage 22 Last week we learned how Courtney Love is planning to sue Activision for turning Kurt Cobain's corpse into a performing monkey in Guitar Hero 5. For some reason, she has a problem with Activision... Crazy ass Guitar Hero 5 world record set in Italy 13 At a recent Guitar Hero 5 launch even in Italy, 594 people showed up to participate in a non-stop 24-hour long jam session. Utilizing the game's hop-in/hop-out feature, Italy bested competition f... Nirvana is no fan of Guitar Hero 5's Kurt Cobain 104 It's not just Kurt Cobain's non-murdering wife who hates what Activision has done to Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5. Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, former members of Nirvana, have issued a stateme... Music game sales are down 46% 51 NPD Group’s Anita Frazier has cast a grim outlook on the formerly booming music game market, revealing that sales are down 46% from last year. Although things are bleak, it's not all bad, s... Courtney Love threatens to sue over Guitar Hero Cobain 83 Despite the fact that Activision was able to get Kurt Cobain into Guitar Hero 5 and release the game with no problems whatsoever, new rumblings from Courtney Love's bloodstained lair seem to sugg... Logitech launches 'premium' Wii music game controllers 15 Both the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for Wii and the Wireless Drum Controller for Wii look like pretty solid offerings. Fancy-pants, if you will. They're both Activision approved, ... Some in-game advertising saves lives, y'know 15 It's easy to think of all in-game advertising is pure evil, but in Australia at least, there are attempts to do some good while influencing the supple minds of young gamers. The Transport Acciden... Harmonix failed a lot before they started to win 18 There's an old adage out there that a penny saved is a penny earned. That adage has nothing to do with this story, but since we're all about to learn a life lesson from the founders of Harmonix I... Guitar Hero 5 DLC plans laid out for September 34 Activision has announced the next months worth of downloadable content for Guitar Hero 5, in addition to the previously announced Rolling Stones Live Track Pack. It is...September 10Street Sweepe... Review: Guitar Hero 5 104 While there's a fat “five” tagged to the name of this game, by no stretch of the imagination is this only the fifth Guitar Hero game to hit the market. Ignoring the mobile and handhel... Guitar Hero 5's World Tour import feature is bullsh*t 60 The Guitar Hero franchise is one of the most saturated and whored-out franchises there is, with a new main sequel every year and plenty of spin-offs in between. Fortunately, Activision made the d... New York University now offers Guitar Hero class 30 I always just kind of thought getting good at Guitar Hero was a matter of practice (or for clumsy f*cks like me, an impossibility), but maybe you can actually learn the trade of banging the hell ... NEXiLUX MiniGuitar is retractable, folds up 11 If you're really hardcore about Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and are always on the go, you might like the NEXiLUX (Meximelt?) Mini Guitar. This is a retractable, packable stick guitar that works on... Playboy Playmates and Hugh Hefner promote Guitar Hero 5 39 Hey, you remember those really annoying Risky Business commercials that Activision was overusing for Guitar Hero World Tour? Well, they’re back for Guitar Hero 5! This time, they feature no... Kurt Cobain mumbles way through songs in Guitar Hero 78 Activision and Neversoft didn't just secure the rights to two tracks from Nirvana's Nevermind not found in competing games (a live version of "Lithium" and the studio cut of "Smell... Even EA admits that music games' future is unclear 33 I catch sh*t frequently about my dislike of these plastic instrument videogames. That's not to say that I don't think others shouldn't play them, though. It's just that I don't enjoy them, much l... Muse's Matt Bellamy gets plugged into Guitar Hero 5 40 Yet another in-game musician has been revealed for Guitar Hero 5, this time the unlikely and random choice of Muse frontman Matt Bellamy. Nothing against Bellamy; I love Muse and the band's music... Guitar Hero 5 DLC won't be compatible with Guitar Hero World 18 Earlier this week, Activision announced the first bit of downloadable content post Guitar Hero 5's release, and it got me wondering: Can I use that content in Guitar Hero World Tour? The short an... Rock the f**k out with Guitar Hero 5 Avatar items 18 In preparation for Guitar Hero 5's September 1 release, a dedicate clothing/item store has appeared on the Xbox 360 Avatar Marketplace. Available for download are items like the Neversoft sceptre... Rolling Stones live, first post Guitar Hero 5 DLC 7 Activision has announced that the first bit of downloadable content that will be made available post Guitar Hero 5's September 1 release will be "The Rolling Stones Live Track" pack.&nb... We think we can talk about these Band Hero songs, details 22 A few months ago, Activision showed and let me play Band Hero at an event in New York City. The game was set up on a small stage with various instruments set up -- four guitars, two drum kits, an... Hey look! Adam Levine is in this 'foxy' Band Hero game 7 Activision has confirmed today that Maroon 5 singer and guitarist Adam Levine will appear as a "playable character" in Band Hero. Also confirmed is that I've written far too many storie... Game SERIES Debate to the Death: Guitar Hero VS Rock Band 166 Last week we all went down guns ablazin' as everyone duked it out over what the better FPS gun was. One side was armed with a gravity gun, and man did they do a lot of damage. Unfortunately, the ... Maroon 5 to appear in 'foxy new computer game' Band Hero 7 No surprises here, but Maroon 5's Adam Levine has confirmed that he'll be appearing as a character in Activision's upcoming Band Hero. In an interview with FemaleFirst (our favorite UK-based girl... Free 'Activision Music' pack available now for Guitar Hero 7 Available now -- right this second for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii -- is a free download for Guitar Hero: World Tour, the "Activision Music Track Pack." Unfortunately, this doesn't... Preview: Guitar Hero 5: GHStudio 2.0 18 With Guitar Hero World Tour, Neversoft attempted to shut up all of the “go play a real guitar” folks by introducing “GHStudio,” a suite of tools that allowed Guitar Hero p... Buy Guitar Hero 5, get advanced copy of GH: Van Halen free 27 Activision really wants you to buy Guitar Hero 5, and it wants to give you Guitar Hero: Van Halen... for free. Before it's even on store shelves. The publisher has announced a ridiculous offer --... Recap: Guitar Hero 5 blowout 5 If you missed some of our comprehensive coverage of Guitar Hero 5 today, you’ve come to the right place. This is where you can get caught up on the day’s GH 5-related posts and keep t... Preview: Guitar Hero 5 (Wii) (Update) 13 In almost every case, the Wii version of a multiplatform game is somehow “gimped.” In other words, it lacks some of the features and characteristics of the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 vers... Preview: Guitar Hero 5 16 Since its inception in 2005, the Guitar Hero franchise has become one of the biggest names in videogames, in addition to cementing itself as a pop culture phenomenon. Guitar Hero and its main com... Guitar Hero's music compatibility explained 22 On Friday, Activision revealed that you’ll be able to play most Guitar Hero World Tour downloadable content, as well as some of the on-disc songs from World Tour and Guitar Hero Smash Hits,... Guitar Hero 5 allows for track imports 20 As gamers we all know that getting up off the couch to change a disc is one of the worst experiences in the world. Back before rhythm games this really only happened for massive RPGs, but now wit... This kid is better at multitasking than you 58 So how’s your night going? Good, eh? Well, prepared to have your night ruined, as you’re about to watch a kid (after the break) play Guitar Hero on expert AND solve two Rubik’s ... Guitar Hero: Van Halen 'revealed' by this reveal trailer 23 Since today's Guitar Hero: Van Halen "Reveal" trailer from Neversoft doesn't show any actual gameplay footage, I am not entirely sure what's being revealed to us. Slightly creepy render... A slick solution to the instrument compatibility conundrum 20 While the photo above was probably taken from inside of Nick Chester's house (photo actually from Shaun McInnis' blog), that collection of plastic instruments could be any of ours. Even if you on... Rumor: Taylor Swift, Adam Levine in Band Hero 9 More or less confirming a rumor we've been keeping quiet about, the BBFC is hinting that country pop singer Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 singer/guitarist Adam Levine will be appearing in Activision'... Guitar Hero 5 does away with in-game Friend Codes 22 Now that the RRoD is pretty much taken care of let's take quick poll of everyone here and ask what the most annoying thing is in all of gaming. I'll give you a hint: it starts with Friend and end... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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