But Guitar Hero Live is more than just re-release of the previous games. From the guitar peripheral to the visual direction of the game, to the way music is accessed, Activision is promising a ...

It’s launching Guitar Hero TV: a “channel” where you can not only watch music videos, but play along with them, too. Maybe I should clarify: Guitar Hero TV isn’t a channel you buy from you ...

The highly anticipated release of Guitar Hero 5 is just a few days away. And as the latest installment in the axe-grinding videogame series approaches, we're taking a look back at the music that ...

the designers behind DJ Hero, the game, priced at $99.99, will combine the familiar functionality of a guitar controller with new features such as first-person point of view and a 24-hour music ...

Activision built a multibillion-dollar business with Guitar Hero earlier this decade — and then saw it all collapse as gamers tired of fake guitars. Now, like an aging rock star, it’s trying ...

As president and CEO of the Guitar Hero division of game publisher Activision Blizzard (ATVI), he's watched the music-genre video game industry explode. When the first "Guitar Hero" video game ...

Guitar Hero has been hailed as a new outlet for artists to get attention — but it's not all sunshine and roses for the music industry. Host Robert Smith examines the love-hate relationship.

Having nearly been sunk by its demise, the studio is now heading Guitar Hero Live, a revival of the series that's at the forefront of a new wave of music games. What killed the genre, what's ...

(Bart Vandever /Zenger Jail Guitar Doors USA has distributed guitars and taught music in more than 140 American prisons and jails, giving men the same lifeline that saved Kramer. "Prisoners all ...

It works brilliantly for its intended use – to create music and patterns to share with ... and I think I know why This controller took me back to my Guitar Hero glory days, and now the PDP ...

Downloadable tunes for music-based games "Guitar Hero," "Rock Band" and "SingStar" have become as vital as iTunes itself — and one of the last ways to expose youngsters to classic rock.

Five years after the games (and their millions in music licenses ... $2 billion and $1.7 billion in revenue, respectively, Guitar Hero and Rock Band were discontinued by their publishers as ...