Tag archive: Hero III

The people at Activision, the publishers of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, were very happy on Thursday night. At the annual British Golden Joystick Awards, CoD4 scooped the Nuts All-Nighter Award, ESA PC Game of the Year, GamesRadar.com Online Game of the Year and Virgin Media Ultimate Game of the Year. Unlike the other big British game awards, the Baftas, the Golden Joysticks winners are chosen by the public, not experts, and this year… Read More

Harmonix has announced that a version of its popular play-along music video game Rock Band will go on sale in the U.S. and Canada on June 22 for a suggested retail price of $169.99. The Wii version of the game will include the Rock Band game, microphone, wireless guitar, and drum kit, and additional standalone instruments will be available for folks who want to build up their band one instrument at a time. The game will include 63 songs,… Read More

New video game sales figures from NPD covering January 2008 show the Nintendo Wii continued to beat out rivals, despite ongoing supply shortages and aggressive marketing by the competition. During January, NPD says Nintendo managed to sell 274,000 Wii consoles in the United States, with Sony selling 269,000 PlayStation 3 systems and Microsoft moving 230,000 Xbox 360s. Overall sales figures dropped 6 percent compared to January of last… Read More

"Not only is songwriting a bitch, but then it goes and has puppies." So noted Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler as Game publisher Activision announced it will offer Guitar Hero: Aerosmith for sale this June, marking the first time a music video game will focus on a single band. The game will put players in the roles of Aerosmith members Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, and Tom Hamilton as the band progresses from a fledgling act all the… Read More

According to market research firm NPD Group, Activision's Guitar Hero franchise has set a video game industry sales record, surpassing $1 billion in North American sales in 26 months. What's more, the latest installment, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, is now that top-selling single-year video game title of all time in terms of units and total dollars earned. “Guitar Hero is one of the biggest brands and one of the… Read More

The holidays weren’t just a bonanza for game consoles and, of course, games themselves. They also brought a big boost to game accessories, according to a story in the Financial Times.   The Wii Fit, which focuses on health, was launched in Japan on December 1, since when it’s sold half a million copies. It uses a balance board shaped like bathroom scales.   Accessories are becoming more and more integral to games. In the… Read More

Mullet-wearing—or mullet-aspiring—customers of Verizon Wireless may have received an early holiday present from their mobile phone operator today: a mobile version of Guitar Hero III is now available to Verizon Wireless customers. The mobile version of the game is priced at $4.49 a month or $11.99 for unlimited use, and features 15 tracks from the Guitar Hero franchise, including “Suck My Kiss” by the Red Hot Chili… Read More

The National Institute on Media and the Family has issued its 2007 report card on the video game industry, and has reached some rather unsurprising conclusions: despite a few retailers' steps to curtail childrens' access to violent video games and new software and parental controls, these efforts have not kept pace with game publishers, and violence in video games continues to increase. Furthermore, the group warns the video… Read More

Guitar Hero III may be the franchise's latest star as far as fans are concerned, but in headlines, it's Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s that's stealing the spotlight – and allegedly a song. The Romantics, an 80s rock band featured in the game, have filed a lawsuit against Guitar Hero publisher Activision, claiming that the game infringes on their image and likeness. The battle is over the song “What I Like… Read More

Guitar Hero III hasn’t been the only game developers at Harmonix has been working on lately – and we’re not talking about Rock Band. The game developer pulled a surprise release out of hat on Tuesday with Phase, a music-based game for the iPod. Unlike the previous versions of all its rhythm games, users actually get to pick songs out of their own music libraries. The game actually turns them into levels with a similar… Read More

It almost seems as if games have reached blockbuster movie status these days; every new launch rides a bigger budget, snowballs more hype and eventually sells more copies than the last. Such is the case for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, the much-awaited holiday release from Activision which sold $115 million in its first week, setting the company’s own record for its  largest single product launch. Activision foresees… Read More

“Are you ready to rock?!” That's the question Activision and thousands of Guitar Hero enthusiasts hope will be answered this Sunday, October 28, when the long-anticipated Guitar Heo III: Legends of Rock goes on sale in a multi-platform blitz encompassing the PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii, and the PlayStation 2. More than 3,000 U.S. retailers are expected to host midnight launch events,… Read More

Aspyr Media has announced it will be shipping a version of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for both the Macintosh and PC within a few weeks' of the title's game console versions. According to Aspyr, the Mac and PC version will match their console-based counterparts, offering all the content, features, boss challenges, unlockable content, and (of course) the same 70-song soundtrack. Online play will also enable Mac and PC gamers… Read More

First Sony gives PSP fans a new version of their system, and now: a rejuvenated title from the days of the original Playstation. Although a new PaRappa the Rapper game for PSP has been available in Japan since December, Wednesday will mark the official release of the game in North America. The first PaRappa for Playstation was released nearly 10 years ago, and is widely credited with being one of the first rhythm action games – the… Read More

With the E3 Expo just around the corner and hype starting to build, Microsoft has tapped the early excitement for the event by announcing that it will broadcast high-def E3 coverage to Xbox 360 owners via Xbox Live. “E3: Bringing It Home” will offer video updates, game trailers, themes, gamer pictures, and even demos. The list of games Microsoft will cover includes: "Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation" (NAMCO BANDAI… Read More