`Guitar Hero 5' makes rocking out easier than ever

A few suggestions for the folks who acquire the songs for "Guitar Hero":

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'Guitar Hero 5' promises expanded options

Activision, publisher of the best-selling music game series "Guitar Hero," is looking to expand its audience with this fall's "Guitar Hero 5," with new features designed for casual players and die-hard fans alike.

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Texas teen is real-world 'Guitar Hero'

On May 17, 13-year-old Danny Johnson sat down in front of an Xbox 360 at The Guitar Hero 24 Hour Marathon in Dallas and completely shredded “Through the Fire and Flames.” On expert.

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Play-along video game genre amps up music industry

Tapping on fake instruments and screeching into microphones connected to video game consoles has become lucrative for both the music and gaming industries. Downloadable tunes for music-based games "Guitar Hero," "Rock Band" and "SingStar" have become as vital as iTunes itself — and one of the last ways to expose youngsters to classic rock.

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'Guitar Hero' Subject of Patent Dispute

Video game publisher Activision Inc. has asked a federal court to declare that its popular "Guitar Hero" game does not violate a patent held by real-guitar maker Gibson Guitar Corp.

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Romantics Sue Video Game Maker Over Song

The Romantics have filed a federal lawsuit against Activision Inc., the maker of "Guitar Hero," saying the popular video game infringes on the band's rights by featuring a soundalike recording of its 1980 hit "What I Like About You."

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When he's not predicting the downfall of all forms of entertainment at the hands of video games, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is talking about how his company's bottom line is more important than folks having fun making the games we play.

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Bill Wyman, the former guitarist of the Rolling Stones, has claimed that Guitar Hero, Rock Band and other music games discourage children from learning real instruments.

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Guitar Hero 5 will allow players to import "some" of the tracks from World Tour and Smash Hits into GH5 (and Band Hero) for a small fee. In addition, 125 of World Tour's 128 DLC tracks will automatically work in the two upcoming rhythm titles.

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Logitech wants you to drum to its beat with the latest launch – a wireless drum kit for Guitar Hero. And the name of this somewhat premium-priced peripheral? It's simply called the Wireless Drum Controller.

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[Jimmy] Page added that he can't imagine that people are really learning anything significant about playing instruments by playing video games.

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Jammin' to Guitar Hero will get a whole lot more fun. In the next version, players can jam to Paul Reed Smith guitars. If they're good enough for Santana, they should be good enough for the rest of us.

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'Guitar Hero 5' is expected to be released worldwide this autumn, and with the latest upgrade of the smash hit game comes a raft of new artists to play along with, including Gorillaz, Bob Dylan, The White Stripes and Coldplay.

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A California court has tossed out Gibson Guitar's patent infringement lawsuit against Guitar Hero maker Activision, saying Gibson's arguments "border on the frivolous."

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Shame on Activision for poaching Guns N' Roses songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. That's band frontman Axl Rose's testy take in a sprawling missive delivered at band fan site Mygnr.com.

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Rehabilitation specialists have taken to Nintendo's Wii game console as a way to help motivate patients during physical therapy and rehabilitation. The latest addition to the Wii-hab phenomenon is perhaps its coolest—Air Guitar Hero.

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Sony and Activision Blizzard have confirmed that they are removing user-generated content from the online portions of their games "LittleBigPlanet" and "Guitar Hero World Tour," respectively.

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EL PASO - Two songs from El Paso bands appear on "Guitar Hero World Tour," which was released nationally on Sunday.

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Developers have made more than 2,400 games for PlayStation 2. That's easily the most of any game console, which makes sense, considering that a whopping 140 million of the units have been sold since its debut eight years ago.

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Blake Peebles, a 16-year-old from Raleigh, NC., dropped out of high school last September in order to devote more time to playing Guitar Hero, according to an article in the Raleigh News & Observer.

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Let's try to keep the bad parenting bait to a minimum for this one, folks, but holy crow, I can't not show you this story.

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Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and then render unto a little bit @!$%#ing more.

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Castaneda was wanted in Charlotte, N.C., after detectives there said he killed a friend over a soccer game. Click here to find out more! Police in Jacksonville got a tip and tracked Castaneda down to the Wal-Mart on Philips Highway, where he was playing Guitar Hero....

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"It's a small plastic thing, resembling a guitar in basic appearance only. But Blake Peebles brings energy to the room when he slides the strap over his skinny shoulder and steps atop the wooden box that serves as a stage."

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GNRDaily has a story and YouTube video regarding some supposed inside information on the release of Chinese Democracy in September. As much as I want to believe this is going to happen, I take all GNR news with a grain of salt these days.

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Famous rockers such as Guns 'N Roses and Van Halen are said to be fleshing out deals to capitalise on the popularity of Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

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"Shackler's Revenge," a song from the upcoming Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy, will appear on the video game Rock Band 2, coming to the Xbox 360 in September.

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Creating a more elaborate Guitar Hero music platform, [Activision CEO Bobby] Kotick said, would be "the natural evolution" of the franchise. "I don't think there have been a lot of credible alternatives to iTunes, but Guitar Hero certainly has that potential," he added...

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Rock Request Line #1: "Back In Black"

Welcome to the first installment of what will hopefully be a weekly column in which I rant and rave about which songs should be a part of "Rock Band", arguably the finest video game ever made in which you and your friends wave plastic toys around and look like total dipsticks.

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"You are an honor to air guitar women everywhere!" I yelled into my microphone as I held up my white board displaying a 6.0 score.

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Watch as Newser Tech Support gets the "low down" on the ultimate gaming system--X Box 360. Newser is an online news service that adds human intelligence to machine-driven aggregation. Daniel Kibblesmith is the creator of Mr. Thing & Mr. Place and The 222 Warehouse.

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