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December 15th, 2009 at 02:00am
Under Wii / Nintendo
You gotta hand it to this kid’s parents, who managed to turn up their boring old Christmas lights to 11 and into quite the Guitar Hero homage. It’s not the first time we’ve seen Activision’s franchise mix it up with some Christmas lights, but it’s certainly the most unique and inspired. We’ve embedded the video past the break so put on your favorite Rudolph sweater (the good one with the blinking nose you keep in the back of the closet), pour yourself a hot cup of cocoa and give it a watch.
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Christmas Light Hero brings rhythm to the holidays originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, guitar-hero, music, rhythm, Wii / Nintendo
By Mister-X
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December 13th, 2009 at 08:30pm
Under DS
Update: We’ve closed the comments and will contact a winner this week. Check the email tied to your commenter name, folks!
For this week’s not-quite-the-holidays-yet giveaway, we’ve got a Band Hero prize pack for the Nintendo Wii and DS lined up for one lucky winner. That’s right! Not just Band Hero for your silly old home console, but also for your handheld (that is, unless you have a Nintendo DSi or XXL — sorry!). Prepare to be embraced by friends and relatives as a genuine American (or Canadian, excluding Quebec) hero while playing along to your favorite Taylor Swift song.
In honor of last night’s Video Game Awards (and the subsequent flood of news and trailers), we’re asking you to tell us what your favorite trailer or news was from the World Premiere-stravaganza. We’ll pick one winner at random this week, so as always, be sure to keep an eye on the inbox!
- Leave a comment telling us what your favorite trailer or news was from last night’s World Premiere-stravaganza (the VGAs).
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec — likely because of The Kids in the Hall).
- Limit 1 entry per person per day
- This entry period ends at 7:31PM ET on Monday, December 13
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive one copy of Band Hero for Nintendo DS ($50 ARV) and one copy of Band Hero for Nintendo Wii ($50 ARV).
- For a list of complete rules, click here
What is Joyswag? Since we don’t keep the games and merchandise we receive for review or promotional purposes, it becomes “Joyswag,” which is passed along to our readers. For more info on our policy, click here.
Swag Sunday: Band Hero for everything Nintendo [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, band-hero, giveaway, joyswag, music, music-rhythm, rhythm, Spike-VGA-2009, swag-saturday, swag-sunday, vicarious-visions
By Mister-X
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December 9th, 2009 at 04:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Last month, the extremely certain pop-rock outfit No Doubt sued Activision for allowing their likenesses to be used in Band Hero, where players could perform the game’s entire catalog of songs as the Stefani-fronted group. According to the complaint, this feature turned the band’s appearance in the game into a “virtual karaoke circus act.” Earlier this week, The Hollywood Reporter dug up a countersuit filed against the band by Activision, who claimed No Doubt was in breach of a contract between the two parties, and had reaped unjust enrichment as a result.
Activision’s main response to No Doubt’s claim is that that the band requested their likenesses be limited to perform the band’s own songs in-game — however, it made this request “only after the Band Hero programming was finalized.” Activision seeks an unspecified amount of damages and interest from the band, as well as court and attorney fees, and a return of all payments dispersed to the band for their initial involvement. Jeez, Activision. Might as well go ahead and ask for the kitchen sink while you’re at it.
[Via GamePolitics]
Activision countersues No Doubt, which is likely not feeling ‘Hella Good’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, band-hero, court, law, lawsuit, music, no-doubt, rhythm, Wii / Nintendo
By Mister-X
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December 4th, 2009 at 06:00pm
Under Xbox 360
What’s the only thing more satisfying than aligning colorful blocks on a rectangular grid while simultaneously recreating pleasant ambient tunes from musical artists such as Moby? Simple — doing so while simultaneously donating to charity. That’s the package that OneBigGame and Zoe Mode will offer on XBLA at some point this winter, when their music/puzzle game Chime lands on the XBLA.
Though we’ve known about this non-profit puzzler for a month now, we’ve yet to see the title in action. Fortunately, OneBigGame dropped a gameplay demonstration video earlier today, which we’ve posted above. Yeah, sure, it’s got a few aesthetic similarities to Lumines, but considering all the proceeds from the game go to Save the Children and Starlight Children’s foundation, we’re not going to raise a stink about it. We think saving children is like, the coolest thing you can possibly do.
Charity XBLA game Chime’s gameplay explained in latest trailer originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: charity, chime, music, onebiggame, puzzle, rhythm, xbla, zoe-mode
By Mister-X
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December 1st, 2009 at 08:30pm
Under Xbox 360
If you’ve been sitting around on your fat stacks of cash, waiting to pick up an extra DJ Hero controller then now is the time, friend. Activision sent along a press release stating that the turntable controllers are now in stock at the Guitar Hero Store for $70 a pop, $40 cheaper than the regular, game-packing bundle.
With a weak showing on October’s NPD charts and UK retailers slashing prices, we can’t say we fully understand Activision’s decision to charge so much for the turntables. From our vantage point, it looks like this: if Activision came down on the price a bit, more people would buy a second controller and have their friends try the game. Then, maybe those people would go out and buy their own set-up. Isn’t that a novel idea?
Standalone DJ Hero controllers now available for $70 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, dj, dj-hero, freestyle-games, freestylegames, music, peripherals, rhythm
By Mister-X
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October 29th, 2009 at 05:00am
Under DS
If there’s one wonderful thing we can say about movie game trailers, it’s that they keep us on top of what’s happening with the kids these days. Take for instance Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel — we didn’t even know there was a second film coming out!
What we can glean from the trailer above is that there will be some form of illicit chipmunk love affair angle to the film that will play into the game’s story. Also, it may or may not be music-rhythm game of some form. As you can imagine, we were so entranced by the slurry of colors and sounds that it was hard to discern any clear information. We did discover, however, that the game will be coming to the Nintendo Wii and DS on December 1.
Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel game tie-in coming in early December originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: alvin-and-the-chipmunks, alvin-and-the-chipmunks-the-squeakquel, licensed-games, movie-tie-in, music, release-date, rhythm
By Mister-X
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October 25th, 2009 at 04:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
It’s rare that we hear anything but doe-eyed optimism from publishers of yet-to-be-released games — however, Activision’s Kai Huang, co-creator of the Guitar Hero franchise, recently voiced some fairly realistic expectations for the upcoming disc-spinning rhythm title, DJ Hero. “We’re expecting this to be the type of game that may come out of the gate a little bit slower, but continue to grow over time,” Huang explained during a speech at the PLAY Digital Media Conference in Berkeley.
Huang mentioned that while overall sales will be bolstered by the Hero part of the game’s moniker, the DJ portion may scare potential players off — causing Activision to focus on in-store demos to push the product on passersby. If we were unenlightened of DJ Hero’s existence, we’d probably be snared by the siren call of the demo unit’s mash-up of “Hollaback Girl” and “Give it to Me.” Curse you, Stefani/James!
[Via VG247]
Guitar Hero co-founder expects DJ Hero to have slower initial sales originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, dj-hero, freestylegames, music, rhythm, sales, Wii / Nintendo
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:34am
Under DS
If you’ve been savoring the slow trickle of track list announcements for Activision’s tween-oriented rhythm title, Band Hero, your prolonged pleasure is about to come to a satisfying, yet abrupt end. The publisher has revealed all of the songs that will be available on the generically monikered game, and we’ve posted them — along with details about compatible DLC and song importing from other Guitar Hero games — after the jump in the least confusing manner we could possibly conjure. To help in this endeavor, we’ve even added a table of contents!
Man, we’re seriously too nice for our own good.
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Full Band Hero track list, importable songs revealed originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, band-hero, compatibility, dlc, guitar-hero, importing, music, neversoft, rhythm, song-importing, songs, track-list
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October 16th, 2009 at 02:45pm
Under DS
If you’re the proud papa (or momma) of your very own Wii and DS, then know that Activision’s upcoming Band Hero will have some connectivity between the two devices. IGN got a demo of the new Wii game and informs us of some pretty nifty features, namely the DS Party Play option.
Building on the social aspect of the rhythm game experience, DS Party Play allows one to use an empty DS to set up and edit custom playlists while folks rock out on the TV and can even produce some trivia for those wanting to exercise their brains along with their voices, fingers and — whatever it is you tap to play drums in these games. Gamers will even be able to adjust the difficulty of songs on the fly, with each notification popping up on the TV so that everyone knows it was you who picked that Evanescence song. What? They need to know so they can congratulate you for choosing such a great song. We’re not being sarcastic at all!
DS/Wii connectivity in Band Hero detailed originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, band-hero, ds-party-play, music, rhythm
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October 9th, 2009 at 02:00am
Under Xbox 360
During an interview with Public Radio International, Harmonix co-founder Eran Egozy spoke about his current musical inspirations and walked listeners through a tour of his offices. While making his way through the cubicles and sacrificial chambers that undoubtedly inhabit the offices that rawk built, the PRI host stumbled upon one employee playing something that sounded a bit familiar — something that sounded a lot like Mötorhead.
“I was working on ‘(We Are) The Road Crew,’ which is an upcoming DLC track,” the Harmonix employee responded to inquiries about the track. Of course, Lemmy and his pals are no strangers to Rock Band or games in general; Mötorhead is featured in the upcoming Metal Track Pack, frontman Lemmy has been immortalized in Guitar Hero: Metallica and he was almost Eddie Riggs in the upcoming Brütal Legend.
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Report: More Motorhead coming to Rock Band originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: dlc, ea, harmonix, lemmy, motorhead, mtv-games, music, rhythm, rock-band
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