News Of The Week

Each Sunday i'll post snippets of the week in guitar and bass news.

• So it looks like Guitar Hero will be back on the shelves of video game stores again at some point in the near future. (I spoke about that here)
• Gene Simmons reckons Rock n' Roll is dead, The Telegraph disagrees suggesting 5 British bands that might revive the genre.
•  A craigslist listing for a guitar sale has done the rounds online for being genuinely hilarious, you can see that here.
• A lizard plays a leaf like a guitar... article here complete with bad puns.
• A cool little feature piece on the journey of the electric guitar over here. 

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Guitar Hero To Make A Comeback?

So it looks like Guitar Hero is making it's return. I can certainly reminisce on many an evening challenging friends as well as slobbing it up in boxer shorts trying to beat my high-score. Full report from The Guardian here. 

"Gaming news site Kotaku reports that Activision could announce a new title at the giant E3 games convention in Los Angeles in June. 

Launched in 2005 and originally developed by music specialist Harmonix, the Guitar Hero series became a major entertainment phenomenon, selling more than 25m copies and kickstarting a huge industry trend for audio gaming."

I'm not sure it can ever recapture former glory, there is probably a good reason sales declined. I'm still fairly certain i'll be buying a copy though, because being good at plastic guitar is super easy compared to being a legitimately good guitarist. So i'm fairly certain  I'll be bedroom rockin' once again when this is released. 

You can buy Guitar Hero 6: Warriors Of Rock here.


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