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Ten Fingers On Five Frets In Guitar Hero: Van Halen

11:00AM Owen Good | Eddie Van Halen’s performance of “Eruption” is more impressive. That’s not the question being asked. But this comparison shows the similarity of the finger work in the tapping sections, which speaks well of the design of Guitar Hero: Van Halen. More »
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Report: Guitar Hero: Van Halen One Of Five ‘Hero’ Games Due In ‘09

11:00AM Michael McWhertor | After the release of Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits and Guitar Hero: Modern Hits, Activision has plans to release an additional five games in the series, including one based on Van Halen. More »

Guitar Hero News From MS Presser – Van Halen, The Eagles, Metallica

4:50AM Mike Fahey | Red Octane founder Kai Huang took the stage today at Microsoft’s E3 2008 presser to toss out a few pertinent Guitar Hero related tidbits. First up, REM DLC is coming, and Xbox 360 owners will get first shot at it when it drops. Then Huang revealed that Van Halen and The Eagles will be completely exclusive to Guitar Hero: World Tour. No Hot For Teacher for Rock Band? Not fair. Finally, Metallica is coming to Guitar Hero in a big way, with DLC being readied to release alongside their new album, Death Magnetic, which is guaranteed to completely make up for Saint Sinner…as if any album could actually contain such power. More »