Music and sounds have always been an integral part of video games.  Whether it was the 8-bit bleeps and bloops of the NES, all the way to the crisp, HD orchestrated music featured in modern games, I have always taken an interest to the sounds and scores of my favorite games.  Halo, for instance, while not...

Got a bunch of fake plastic trees instruments lying around in your closet, do you? Wishing you could make some sort of use with them, since you’ve beat all your music games and the rhythm genre has all but died? Those kind fellows over at Joystiq pointed us to Jam Live Music Arcade, a game coming to...

Following the news of Activision-Blizzard’s abandonment of the Guitar Hero and DJ Hero franchises (at least in 2011), Rockband developer Harmonix is ready to welcome the newly shunned Guitar Hero stalwarts. In a forum post on the Rockband website, community manager John Drake made it clear that...

Activision-Blizzard is not a company that ignores the bottom line. Their latest conference call to investors and quarterly financial report made this point abundantly clear with announcements leaving a wake of studio restructurings, layoffs, game cancellations and a whole lot more Call of Duty. So what...

Developer Harmonix, creators of the Rock Band series of games, as well as the recently released Kinect launch title Dance Central has been sold for the paltry sum of 50 USD. While cheaper then the cost of a current generation game, the buyer, investment group Columbus Nova will also assume all of...

I’m going to assume that you’ve already read the reviews of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, the latest installment in a long line of music rhythm games from the Activision franchise of the same name. I’m going to assume that you already know whether you want to buy this game or not, since...

Activision is proud to reveal eleven artists to debut on the Guitar Hero brand on their next outing. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock will be featuring the first time appearances of the following bands and their tracks: Anberlin – “The Feel Good Drag” John 5 – “Black Widow Of La Porte” Neil Young...

Getting the band back together happens from time to time, and this occasion has to do with none otherthan the reunion of Soundgarden. Chris Cornell and company have delighted their fans by getting back together for a new album, but they have also found a way to please their Guitar Hero fans two-fold. This...

For years I have thought that Guitar Hero would be a great series to create a quest game out of. The success of Puzzle Quest has already proven that this mashing of genres does work quite well. Today, Activision announced such a beast – Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Although some details are still...

Dante’s Inferno is here, and it is awesome. The problem is, a lot of people will never know how awesome it is, because all they can think is “it’s a God of War clone.” I’ve always wondered what that really means. Aren’t all games clones of something else? Isn’t...