GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Guitar Hero fans may be happy to learn that a new version of Star ...

After making plastic guitars a fixture of every living room and dorm during the first part of the new millennium, the Guitar Hero franchise has spent the last five years letting those axes go dusty.

Expensive; some mechanics need to mature; a bit 'cute' The pitch for Guitar Hero games has always centred on Good Times With Friends; the adverts and marketing materials tend to feature implausible ...

Taking a property left for dead is among the most daunting tasks in gaming. The last time anyone had seen Activision's Guitar Hero, the series had flown too close to the sun and its wings melted under ...

My view glances around a wooden backstage as I walk and prep for the show. As I get closer to the stage, there are my band mates and crew clapping and cheering, trying to get me amped to play. Out of ...

Guitar Hero Live is a 2015 musical rhythm game that was developed by FreeStyle Games and published by Activision. The game features a brand-new guitar controller that looks more like a regular guitar ...

This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been ...

Guitar Hero Live is a strange chimera of a video game. Taking the mechanics of Guitar Hero, the perspective of a first-person shooter, and the graphical style of FMV games like Sewer Shark means it ...

Guitar Hero Live’s streaming music service, Guitar Hero TV, will close down in December, effectively cutting the game’s accessible library to just 42 songs. When it launched in October 2015, Guitar ...

Sometime around Christmas of 2005 I had an experience that I'll never forget. A friend had just received a copy of Guitar Hero, the brand new music rhythm game for the PlayStation 2, and I was at his ...

Guitar Hero Live is the most surprising game I've played all year — surprising both in how much it diverges from its own history, and in just how much I loved those divergences. You can toss out ...

Guitar Hero Live is a complex machine with many moving parts and a lot of new ideas. Its visuals rely primarily on live action footage rather than traditional game graphics. Its guitar trades the long ...