Using figures provided by Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, Gamasutra has put together a brief sales analysis of Activision's Guitar Hero World Tour . With three different bundles available at different prices, you might be surprised to learn the full band kit -- priced at $190 -- outsold both...

After the release of Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits and Guitar Hero: Modern Hits, Activision has plans to release an additional five games in the series, including one based on Van Halen. Sound familiar? It should, because Activision CEO Bobby Kotick hinted this time last year th...

Punk rock band Rise Against will exclusively debut its previously unreleased track "Death Blossoms" as Guitar Hero World Tour downloadable content. The new song, along with the band's "Audience of One" and "Ready to Fall" tracks, will be released on both XBLM and PSN on March 12 as the Rise Against ...

Punk band Rise Against is the latest group to debut music in Guitar Hero World Tour, with the previously unreleased song "Death Blossoms" available next week as part of the Rise Against Track Pack. Chicago punk band Rise Against is no stranger to Guitar Hero, with "Prayer of the Refuge" and "Re-Educ...

Activision details their downloadable content lineup for Guitar Hero World Tour this month, bringing players more Hendrix, a little Queen, a smattering of European tracks, and the James Bond theme song. The month's downloadable songs kick off this Thursday with the third European track pack, with It...

Simulated guitar? Gibson gets carried away, but the law wins. Photo/bento creation (CC) Sakurako Kitsa.(Yup, this is a Fender Strat, but this is my kind of simulation of a musical instrument - in cheese form!) Gibson, the guitar company, has been on an utterly absurd campaign against music games, br...

Here's two more Guitar Hero: Metallica trailers, featuring Motorhead and King Diamond, showing the headbanging action you won't see because you're concentrating on the note highways. Sweet mercyful crap, dig some of those sets. Of course, the full tracklist has already been revealed, but here's a vi...

The inclusion of Mercyful Fate's King Diamond will ratchet up the evil in Guitar Hero: Metallica , as well as the Danish black metal quotient. As you can see, Mr. Diamond looks authentically and theatrically evil. That's partially due to the details, like the appearance of Kind Diamond's trademark m...

Before everyone goes marching on the Activision offices with torches and pitchforks in hand, understand that the company is not whoring Guitar Hero out to the winter clothing industry (at least, not that we know of). No, the scarf you see above was created by a crafter at the Domestic Scientist. The...

The text-heavy Guitar Hero: Metallica box art is out, and it features a big fat booboo: Someone left a last "Y" out of Lynyrd Skynyrd's name! Sure, we've all misspelled Linyrd Skynyrd in our day, but it's not that hard: wherever you would put a normal vowel, put a "Y," and you're done. One would thi...