wired.com - 3/3/2009
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Nobody expected the number-one-with-a-bullet rise of the music videogame least of all the music industry. Armed with little more than crappy graphics, plastic guitars, and epic hooks, play-along titles like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have become an industry in their own right, raking in more than ...
xbox360.ign.com - 3/5/2009
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xbox360.ign.com —
March 4, 2009 - Though the basic Guitar
Hero formula hasn't drastically changed since it first burst...
onto the scene, small updates have come with each successive release. Most recently, with Guitar Hero World Tour, the franchise expanded to a full ...
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Guitar Hero Greatest Hits Revealed
weblogs.variety.com - 3/3/2009
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weblogs.variety.com —
Tough negotiations between the music biz and MTV
could leave "Rock Band" without new downloadable tracks from...
one of the big four labels. Billboard is reporting that MTV and Warner Music have been unable to reach agreement on a single deal since WMG ...
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Warner Music out of Rock Band?
g4tv.com - 3/7/2009
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g4tv.com —
Guitar Hero: Metallica According to Eurogamer ,"a source
close to publisher" Activision may release as many as...
eight Guitar Hero -themed games in 2009. Here's the list: Guitar Hero: Metallica (confirmed for March 29, 2009 on the PS3, 360 and PC) ...
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As Many As Eight 'Guitar Hero' Games Might Hit in 2009
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Rock Band Not Boycotting Warner Bros.
G4 TV - TheFeed —
... In spite of what was written in a recent article in Wired Magazine, MTV, creators of Rock Band, is not boycotting bands from Warner Brothers Music. The real situation, according to Billboard, is more of a standoff, an impasse or a staring contest. ...
'Rock Band' Won't Boycott Warner Bros.
G4 TV - TheFeed —
... In spite of what was written in a recent article in Wired Magazine, MTV, creators of Rock Band, will not boycott bands from Warner Brothers Music. The real situation, according to Billboard, is more of a standoff -- an impasse or a staring contest. ...
MTV Games Not (Technically) Boycotting Warner Music
GayGamer.net —
... Despite articles to the contrary, MTV Games is not boycotting Warner Music Group and blacklisting WMG artists from Rock Band. Well, not exactly. Not technically, they're not. ...
From the Ear’s Perspective: The Economy of Rock
N/A —
... clever name) will become one of the biggest orgies of concrete, shopping, and societal vomit in the US. Yet there is hope. Our little record store, Sound Garden, is alive and well, and with any luck, it will continue to sell music, DVDs, and video games for a nominal fee. I’ve made it clear in previous posts my opinions about music video games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero . This feature is not meant to further illustrate my disappointment with these games. There is an article in Wired ...
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What Guitar Hero and Rock Band Can Teach Us [Feature]
kotaku.com 3/16/2009 — Contrary to your assumptions, Guitar Hero and Rock Band are not sneered at by all serious musicians. By themselves they may not teach you how to be a part of a bona fide rock band, but two instructors whose job it is to do so say the games have some ...
The Official Guitar Hero/Rock Band Compatibility Chart [Guitar Hero]
kotaku.com 11/14/2008 — If you own both Guitar Hero (III or World Tour) and Rock Band (1 or 2), you'll be both familiar and ultimately sick of the compatibility issues between the two franchises. They will work, they won't work, they might work, they should work; trying to ...
Rock Band, Guitar Hero Revenues Down 49% [Music]
kotaku.com 7/22/2009 — The bubble had to burst sooner or later. Digging through some NPD numbers from the past few months, Gamasutra's Matt Matthews has found that the amount of money made from copies of Rock Band and Guitar Hero is down 49%. That's compared to the ...
Guitar Hero 5
co-optimus.com 5/18/2009 — We've added Guitar Hero 5 for the Wii to our database of Co-Op games!
Guitar Hero: Beatles?
massivedamage.com 9/7/2009 —
A hilarious satirical video recently hit YouTube for the latest instalment in everyone’s favourite peripheral based music game dubbed ‘Guitar Hero: Beatles’ which coincides with the release of Rock Band: Beatles. The video mocks Activision’s treatment of the franchise, ...
Guitar Hero 5
co-optimus.com 5/18/2009 — We've added Guitar Hero 5 for the Playstation 2 to our database of Co-Op games!
Before There Was Guitar Hero...
edge-online.com 11/17/2008 — A U.S. report from market research firm Odyssey recently found that the music game genre had passed sports games as the second-most-played genre in videogames today. It wasn't always like that. read more
Gibson fail in Guitar Hero court case —
play.tm 3/3/2009
Judge dismisses patent wrangle Guitar-makers Gibson have had their Guitar Hero patent infringement case chucked out by a US court, the Activision lawsuit apparently falling somewhat flat.
Gibson had contended that Guitar Hero's 'guitar' ...
Gibson Guitar Hero case thrown out —
Computer And Video Games 3/3/2009
Complaint against Activision is borderline "frivolous".
A court has thrown out Gibson Guitar's suit against Activision that claimed the game maker infringed on music-related patents with the Guitar Hero series. Click here to read the full article
Warner demand more money from music games —
play.tm 3/3/2009
Rock Band targeted by record label Warner Music are once again proclaiming that they deserve larger revenues for songs included in games like MTV and Harmonix's Rock Band, the label adamant that their share of proceeds isn't fair.
This isn't ...
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