Harmonix have released a new track pack for Guitar Hero II on the Xbox 360 - the Indie Label Pack II. 500 Microsoft points gets you:
Video preview after the jump.
These wonderful haircuts and their owners are mobilizing legal action against Activision, Harmonix, and Red Octane over their song “What I like About You” in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the ’80s. Seemingly worried that cover band Wavegroup Sound’s version will somehow “confuse the consumer” and detract from their sales, they are demanding the whole hog – the band wants to halt the sale of the game and accounting of all profits from the game, along with unspecified “compensatory and punitive” damages. For once the cover band gets it right, and the real band has to come along and spoil it for the rest of us.
Activision today announced the first three downloadable track packs for Guitar Hero III - the Velvet Revolver, Foo Fighters and Boss Battle Anthems packs. The Velvet Revolver pack includes master recordings of “Messages,” “She Builds Quick Machines” and “Slither.” The Foo Fighters pack includes “The Pretender,” “This Is a Call” and “All My Life.” Both are currently available on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 500 Microsoft points, and will be available on the PlayStation Store later this month.
After the South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, Matt and Trey are set to take another swipe at video games - this time, the hugely popular Guitar Hero.
The episode called “Guitar Queer-o” follows Stan and Kyle, who are hooked on Guitar Hero. Stan’s superior shredding eventually leads to a breakdown in their friendship, as he pursues bigger scores with a better partner. The episode premieres on Wednesday, November 7 at 10pm on Comedy Central, and will no doubt be uploaded to every video hosting site known to man shortly afterward.
Didn’t get Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, and don’t have a blank CD lying around? Fortunately for you, there’s now another way to get the demo for Guitar Hero III - it’s just been released on Xbox Live. The demo is the same one available elsewhere, and features the following tracks:
• Even Flow (by Pearl Jam)
• Lay Down (by Priestess)
• The Metal (by Tenacious D)
• Hit Me with your Best Shot (as made famous by Pat Benatar)
• Rock You like a Hurricane (as made famous by Scorpions)
Guitar Hero III will be released in North America on October 28, Australia on November 7 and finally in Europe on November 23.
Red Octane has released three new tracks for Guitar Hero II on Xbox Live. The somewhat obscure tracks are available individually for 200 Microsoft points, in all regions other than Japan. If you haven’t heard these tracks before (and we don’t blame you) you can check them out by downloading the free trailers.
Soilwork - “Exile”
Pleymo - “Sept”
Los Rodriguez - “Sin Documentos”
via Major Nelson
Ever wanted to be a rock god surrounded by groupies, but can’t be bothered learning an instrument? Activision is coming to the rescue with the launch of a Guitar Hero community site. While it’s currently little more than a teaser site, once Guitar Hero III hits on October 28, the site will allow players to earn groupies, find friends, compare scores and enter tournaments. Though the press release is a little obtuse, we presume that the site will operate similar to Bungie’s Halo 3 site.
Press release after the jump.
When Activision found themselves unable to locate the master recordings for the Sex Pistols songs they wanted in Guitar Hero III, their solution was simple - get the band back in the studio.
You have to admire their attention to detail too - they managed to get three original band members, the original producer and the same analog sound desk that was used to record “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols” involved in the process.
Guitar Hero III will be available in the US on October 28, for the Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 - including the Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K” and other unannounced goodies.
A new song pack consisting of three new tracks is on the way to Guitar Hero II on the Xbox 360, priced at 500 Microsoft points - and this one comes complete with a peculiar bonus - the ability to make 24-year-old heavy music fans feel old, and long for the days before crappy melodic bits made it into otherwise half-decent tunes.
Where is the Meshuggah? The Dillinger Escape Plan? Coalesce?
OK I give up…where did I put my walking frame?
via ScoreHero
First there was the Guitar Hero cake, then there was the Guitar Hero playing robot…now a LEGO-nut by the name of David McNeely has built a fully-functioning Guitar Hero controller using LEGO, and the guts of a PS2 guitar.
via Kotaku
