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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Get ready Guitar Hero II fans, for your doom (at least according to Luke) comes on June 19th, the official release date for the Coldplay track pack on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. The three-pack of songs includes the single “Violet Hill” from their upcoming album Viva la Vida, due out June 17th, along with two of the band’s older tracks, “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face” form A Rush of Blood to the Head and “Yellow”. Seriously, “Yellow”? Did that even have guitar in it? I’d head over to Amazon and check out the excerpt from the song to check but that would mean I voluntarily listened to it, and I made a pledge never to do so again after they played it on the local “alternative” radio station for the millionth time.
Anyone overly excited by this track pack? Speak up, so we might poke you with sticks and try to figure out what makes you tick.
Bear witness, ladies and gentlemen, to one man’s triumph over Dragonforce’s Through The Fire and Flames on expert, hitting every single note to achieve a score of 987,786 and 100%. Youtube user iamchris4life has been uploading videos of his performances for quite some time now, to the point where people were faking videos of him completing TTFAF, but this one is for real. Watching this makes my hands ache.
Be warned, Chris uses some strong language at the end of the run, but he damn well earned it. Thanks everyone for sending in the tip!
It was swell of Sony to bring a little parity to Guitar Hero’s DLC, let PlayStation owners get their own console-specific, mascot-endorsed anthem to play with. While they made the initial announcement a few weeks ago, they neglected to tell us just which GoW song it would be. They have now: it’ll be called “The End Begins (To Rock)”, a guitar-heavy reworking of God of War II’s title theme. There’s a preview clip above (and it looks surprisingly excellent!), and if you dig it so much you just want to listen without playing, it’ll be made available in “downloadable form” (an mp3, then) on the PlayStation Store as well. Both the DLC and song will be free, and they’ll be part of the US PSN update tomorrow.
Coldplay are going to be in Guitar Hero. Coldplay. I’ll give you a moment to emit a deep, remorseful sigh. As part of the promotional circus surrounding their latest album, the song “Violet Hill” will be made available as DLC for Guitar Hero III, though a date for its release has yet to be specified. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin says of the song, in all seriousness, “It’s not [all]about the piano shit”. Come now, Activision. It wasn’t enough to kill Guitar Hero, you now gotta whizz on its freshly-covered grave?
What’s your high score on Guitar Hero III‘s sore-finger finale “Through The Fire And The Flames?” At a 24-hour Guitar Hero marathon held by Blockbuster to benefit the nonprofit “Education is Freedom” children’s charity, Grapevine, TX native Daniel Johnson blew away the Guiness World Record for a single-song high score.
Playing on Expert, no less, on an Xbox 360. So how many points, now?
360 owners got a free Halo song, it’s only fair PS3 owners get a similar deal. And they are. An email just went out to PlayStation Underground members, announcing that on June 5, a “Free GoW song for Guitar Hero III” would be released. Surely this signals the beginning of a “free, exclusive track” arms race, which can only end when players are subjected to weekly updates like “The End Credits Music From Heavenly Sword” and “Bomberman Zero Main Menu: Ibiza Party Megamix”.
[thanks everyone who sent this in!]
Activision have announced that, as of May 8, anyone who owns the 360 version of Guitar Hero III will be able to download a Muse song-pack. It’ll contain three songs: Exo-Politics, Supermassive Black Hole and Stockholm Syndrome. No word on the PS3 version, and since GHIII updates on the PlayStation Store seem to be all over the shop I don’t want go hazarding guesses, but if I had to hazard a guess, since May 8 is a Thursday it’ll probably be available same day as the 360 stuff. New Muse for Guitar Hero [CVG][Pic]
Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia” was one of those pleasant surprises for me in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. As someone who only turns on the radio to hear people arguing about politics, games like GH III are sadly my main source for discovering new music, and the Muse song completely grabbed me right from the start, going from “I guess I’ll try this one” to a “Time for rock squats!” song in the span of a few minutes. Now the British trio is getting even more time in the spotlight as Activision reveals a Muse track pack for GH III, featuring two songs from their Black Holes and Revelations album, “Exo-Politics” and “Supermassive Black Hole”, along with “Stockholm Syndrome” off of Absolution. The pack will be available on May 8th for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Feel free to suggest similar music to me in the comments section, as I am an avid lover of all things musical without a lot of patience for wading through radio nonsense.
Going by the packaging alone, one would certainly get this impression. Upon closer inspection of the controller itself, this impression would disappear much like, well, an Xbox 360 guide button on a Wii peripheral.
Thankfully for Activision, the mistake is only a point on a bulleted list and the accompanying image of the guitar is correct. I’ve blown up the photo our tipster sent in and added some sharpening so it’s more visible. Shame, I got a little excited by the idea of turning on my Xbox 360 with a Wii guitar.
[Thanks Stephen]
Musicians make music. Non-musicians stand in their living room, drinking beer in their socks, strumming on a piece of plastic. So what does Rob Zombie and that Weezer guy Rivers Cuomo think? While Zombie offered, “I don’t play them, but I think it’s awesome,” Cuomo was a tad more critical: I’ve never played it. I don’t get those games at all. I mean, I haven’t tried them. But they must be fun because people love them. But, to me, it seems like if you’re going to put that much effort into playing something, you should just play a real instrument. [laughs]
Real instruments don’t raise your Gamertag Score, dude. Rob Zombie, Weezer Hate Guitar Hero [Joystick Division]
