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Guitar Hero: World Tour Gets Awesome Music, Terrible Gameplay

The constant battle-of-licensing-the-bands rages on! Following last week’s Rock Band DLC announcement including the likes of Foo Fighters and Megadeth, Guitar Hero: World Tour has confirmed a few choice names of their own. GameSpot attended an Activision press event in New Zealand, at which the publisher confirmed four tracks to be included in the GH:WT [...]

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Xbox 360 Music Peripherals Will Also Be Compatible With Everything

Yesterday, Sony made a large number of virtual virtuosos happy by announcing that pretty much every single PS3 peripheral coming out with this fall’s music titles will be cross-compatible. Rock Band 2 controllers will work with Guitar Hero: World Tour, GH:WT instruments will work with Rock Revolution, and so on. In response, Microsoft has announced [...]

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PS3 Music Peripherals Will Be Compatible With Everything

So many music games, and so many adorable fake plastic instruments! Between Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and Rock Revolution, gamers can soon expect their living rooms to become a veritable Guitar Center of gaming accessories, losing precious floor space to three separate sets of guitars, drum kits, and a maddening tangle of [...]

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E3 2008: Music Games on Xbox 360

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Media Briefing, beyond being scored with hard-rocking tunes for the entrances of its various executives, spent a lengthy period discussing the future of music-based games for the platform. Following the presentation’s overall theme of “something for everybody,” Microsoft’s Shane Kim introduced the music genre as the type of game that appeals to [...]

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The Replay Value of History

“It reminds me of the circumstances attendant upon the death of Van Jansen, in Utrecht, in the year ’34. Do you remember the case, Gregson?” “No, sir.” “Read it up – you really should. There is nothing new under the sun.” – A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle Those who try to apply analysis to make predictions about an [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.12.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Cryptic Studios countdown to reveal existence of Star Trek Online [or another blatant asset ripoff] this July 28 (Hailing Frequency Forum via Ten Ton Hammer) X360 Unreal Tournament 3 gets July 7th ship date, contains exclusive new video preview of Gears 2 (BusinessWire) Game “borrowing” Oblivion assets [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.5.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Gaming: Kojima Productions’ Ryan Payton debunks MGS4’s rumored 90-minute cutscenes, retroactively clarifies reviewer-unfriendly NDA (Kotaku; Kotaku) Despite Crytek CEO’s promise of no more PC exclusives, Crysis: Warhead turns out to be PC-exclusive parallel story starring secondary squadmate (BusinessWire) Metal Gear Solid 4 receives coveted 40/40 from Famitsu, [...]

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No More Guitar Heroes

It’s all but official — GameSpot has a report that a recent SEC filing by Activision has revealed a new entry in the Guitar Hero franchise; namely, Guitar Hero: Metallica. Details are scarce with the official announcement not yet having arrived, but it’s not much of a stretch to assume the game’s pitch will read [...]

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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.3.08

This month on GameCyte, we’re going to try something a little different. While we always pride ourselves on bringing you deeper perspectives, wittier commentary and more careful analysis than you’ll find anywhere else, it’s taken a toll on our ability to produce truly original content. So now, rather than continually attempt to one-up our competitors [...]

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Guitar Hero: World Tour to Let Wii Owners Have DLC

Rock on, Wii owners: You will be left out of the DLC game no longer. MTV Multiplayer has a confirmation from Vicarious Visions, the developers behind the Wii version of Guitar Hero: World Tour, that the game will include full DLC functionality on Nintendo’s console. The Wii, often maligned for its poor online implementation, will [...]

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