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Activision Blizzard, the games publisher, will launch DJ Hero on October 30 — a game that comes with a plastic turntable on which players can scratch in time to chosen songs...Although Activision claims that it is stimulating demand in the music industry,...
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PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox and PC Game news and reviews 8:57AM Tuesday September 29, 2009 As a big fan of music games, let me sing this out loud...You can customise the band by using any combination of character and instruments (e.g. The boss battles have...
Tags: Guitar Hero
Rape me, my friend!” You can almost hear Kurt Cobain screaming from beyond the grave as “Guitar Hero 5” players force his likeness to sing “You Give Love a Bad Name.” That’s right, in the latest addition of the “Guitar Hero” video game franchise, players...
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Ever since the release of Guitar Hero 5 earlier this month by game maker Activision the ex-wife Courtney Love (and head of the estate) of Kurt Cobain has been blasting the game maker and threatening to sue the game company for their use of her ex-husband's...
Tags: Guitar Hero, Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, Bon Jovi
big autumn for games With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall. The season gets a late-summer start Tuesday, with the release...
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With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall. The season gets a late-summer start Tuesday, with the release of Guitar Hero 5, a...
When you're a real-life guitarist like Billy Squier, seeing fans trying to emulate your behavior in a video game can be weird. Squier, whose "Lonely Is the Night" was in "Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the '80s" and returns this week in "Guitar Hero 5," says...
Tags: Guitar Hero, rocks band, Rock Band
This decade's biggest pop music battle is between video games. Activision this weekend announced late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain would feature as a playable character in Guitar Hero 5 , set to be released next month in direct competition with MTV's The...
Tags: Kurt Cobain, Guitar Hero
Tragic Seattle rock star Kurt Cobain is headlining a new version of the hit video game "Guitar Hero" featuring an eerIE, animated Cobain resurrected on screen. His appearance in "Guitar Hero 5" should balance out "The Beatles" game debut on the competing...
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It’s become the fad in recent years to disparage American culture, or lack thereof. American citizens are increasingly seen as poorly educated philistines who prefer to remain ignorant of current events, rarely read and would rather stare...
Tags: Guitar Hero, Rock Band, video games, culture, capitalism, music, art, mass media, Activision