I might not approve of U2’s music or Bono’s smugness, but I can definitely get behind the band’s appraisal of music games. Essentially, they’re alright. Radical even.

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The Beatles first conquered England, then America, next up was LSD and finally… rhythm based music video games.  The Beatles conquered them all. How did this happen? How did a game that contains only 45 tracks, all from one band, that is not particularly difficult so thoroughly rip apart everything we new about the genre [...]

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SGC member PikminGuts92 and I had an INTERNET ARGUMENT last night. Well, nay, it was a minor disagreement on Twitter. As we’re both big players of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, it was totally about those games. And how Rock Band is doing it better.
Well, in my eyes anyway. In terms of DLC. You get [...]

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Since joining this site, I have not played a PC game on my gaming rig.  Blasphemous, I know, but there it is.  I’ve been too busy trying to keep up with the mountain of console games that keep falling down around my ears.
There was a part of me that was grateful to the fact that [...]

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What with only Guitar Hero: Van Halen, Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits, Guitar Hero On Tour: Smash Hits, DJ Hero, Lego Rock Band, The Beatles: Rock Band and Band Hero announced, we can understand why you might desire a little something extra to scratch your needlessly annoying rhythm game itch (we recommend a [...]

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I’m sure many of you are reading the headline, thinking, “Yeah OMG, tell us something we don’t know.” My wife put the TV on Under the Tuscan Sun and then fell asleep on the couch, and I’m too lazy (and frankly just wanting to get this written) to get up and change it. Didn’t know [...]

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Ars Technica has apparently picked up an excerpt of PSP exclusive Rock Band Unplugged’s track list. While the song list is pretty good looking, there’s some familiar looking stuff showing up here that we’ve seen in music games both recent and from a few years ago.
Seperate games aside, I’m thinking: are we running out of [...]

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Prepare to be shocked. Expect the next “Call of Duty” sequel before the end of the year. I apologize if that news floored you, but I figured you could handle it since the game was first mentioned at an advertising event last December.
More from Activision Blizzard’s latest earnings call after the jump.

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It seems that non-gamers are forever at odds and ends with these fandangled interactive video thingies of the 21st century. Forbes recently reported on the head of Activision with extreme ignorance, and now Noel Gallagher of rock band Oasis has stepped up to the fore to make his opinion clear on Guitar Hero.
Well, when I [...]

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Oh dear oh dear oh dear. No matter how much encouragement Forbes was given last week by gamers across the world to get their facts right about games, they don’t seem intent on taking it back. Of course, by Forbes I mean their writer, Peter C. Beller, who last week called Rock Band a shameless ripoff of [...]

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It’s time to dig out those plastic coated axes, don your metal studded jacket and have a good ol’ fashioned band reunion! No, not that type of band, I’m talking about your Guitar Hero band…obviously.  What I’m trying to say, albeit in a fairly waffly manner, is that the Guitar Hero: Metallica setlist has been [...]

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Oh, non-gaming writers, how you bemuse me with your “articles” about games. Granted, we’re probably as efficient at writing about the economy and politics as I am at cooking anything worth eating, but then you don’t see me tapping out a 1000-word report on why today’s Lloyds TSB/HBOS merger in the UK is a sad [...]

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