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Create a full MIDI Drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band Drums

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:09:00 +0000

Here is a demonstration of using both the Guitar Hero World Tour Drums for Wii and the Rock Band Drums for Wii to create a full MIDI Drumset: Camille, the programmer of OSCulator, got his program working with the Velocity-sensitive Guitar Hero drums. Download OSCulator ...

Engadget found this 16 hours ago on jordanbalagot.com

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Survey: Xbox 360 low on kids' holiday wish lists

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

This holiday season, more kids want a new Nintendo DSi, Sony PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii than want a Microsoft Xbox 360, according to a survey by Game Crazy.

josephtartakoff posted 21 hours ago from blog.seattlepi.com

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shaped USB announced

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:41:00 +0000

Home News The Beatles Apple-shaped USB Announced The Beatles Apple-shaped USB announced Posted by Khidr Suleman on Wed 4 Nov 2009 All you need is... data storage, apparently What with the recent success of The Beatles Rock Band , the infamous foursome seems to have delveoped an insatiable ...

T3.com All found this 24 hours ago on t3.com

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No Doubt sues Activision over Band Hero [Updated]

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:20:40 +0000

Rock band No Doubt has filed a real-world lawsuit over its virtual role in the just-released Band Hero edition of the Guitar Hero video game series, claiming that the game has “transformed No Doubt band members into a virtual karaoke...

GeekSugar found this 2 days ago on latimesblogs.latimes.com

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No Doubt kick up stink over Band Hero avatar

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:15:00 +0000

American rockers No Doubt have taken offence to Activision using their likeness in the company's new Band Hero game and are suing for breach of contract. The band, fronted by Gwen Stefani, had signed on the dotted line for Activision to use its music and likeness in the game but are upset that ...

T3.com All found this 30 hours ago on techradar.com

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No Doubt Sues -- Gwen Is Not a Man!

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:40:00 +0000

Filed under: Celebrity Justice , Music , Gwen Stefani Gwen Stefani is not a man and wants nothing to do with hookers -- but according to a new lawsuit, Gwen claims she's being manipulated into all sorts of manly, unGwen-like behavior for a new "Guitar Hero" video game. The band No Doubt is ...

Joystiq [Nintendo] found this 2 days ago on tmz.com

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Analyst: DJ Hero Sales 'Modest,' Consumers Resisting Games Over $100

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:00:40 +0000

With retail sales for video games "sluggish" in general, it's a less-than-ideal time to launch an expensive game, and Activision's DJ Hero may be feeling the impact of consumer resistance, says Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian. Although game sales are "stable," the analyst says, ...

CrunchGear found this 3 days ago on gamasutra.com

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Microsoft researchers build muscle-computer interface, play air Guitar Hero

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:20:00 +0000

Legendary DIYer Johnny Chung Lee may have only been with Microsoft for a few months , but it looks like he's already making his presence felt, even when he's not working on projects himself. His latest effort involves getting videos from the User Interface Software and Technology (or UIST ) ...

Tech Blog found this 10 days ago on engadget.com

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Muscle-computer interface to play Guitar Hero without the guitar

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:04:25 +0000

As computing begins to grow beyond the desktop computer and mobile consumer electronics, the tactile input devices are slowly fading out, and the gestural interfaces, wherein specific hand, face and even eye gestures are used to control the computers are steadily moving in. In an effort to ...

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Polk's HitMaster Speaker Wedge Makes Rock Band More Real

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:37:00 +0000

Altec Lansing has already busted this market wide open, but now the audio lovers over at Polk are looking to take their shot, too. For those unaware, there's apparently a small movement going on in the rock music game arena where folks are looking for individual monitors to use rather than ...

Engadget found this 13 days ago on hothardware.com

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The Who: Rock Band set for 2010? - News at GameSpot

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:47:34 +0000

Source: The Who lead singer Roger Daltry told Massachusetts paper The Republican that The Who will be getting its own Rock Band. When an interviewer brought up the recently released The Beatles: Rock Band, Daltry said, "The game, yeah, yeah, they're going to be doing a Who one next year. There ...

T3.com All found this 10 days ago on uk.gamespot.com

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Analyst: DJ Hero Pre-Order Activity Weak

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has lowered his US sales estimates for DJ Hero by over 50 per cent after retail channel checks indicated “weak pre-order activity” for the game. Officially announced in May and due for release alongside a turntable controller at the end of ...

Kotaku found this 12 days ago on next-gen.biz

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Activision: Initial DJ Hero Sales Might Be Slow

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:30:00 +0000

October 23, 2009 - Activision's newest upcoming music title, DJ Hero , has a lot to live up to. After releasing several successful iterations of the Guitar Hero franchise, the publisher decided to try something new by releasing a DJ-based game using a turntable controller, and exposing its ...

Joystiq found this 12 days ago on uk.ps2.ign.com

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Football Hero

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:07:02 +0000

For Kasabian’s new single Underdog , they decided to do something original. After dreaming up a Guitar Hero style controller powered by soccer football players, they set out to make it happen. Using 5 wall mounted pressure sensors connected to a microcontroller , they hooked up the ...

Gizmología found this 10 days ago on hackaday.com

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Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Bobby Kotick's nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless, a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air...

Joystiq found this 10 days ago on kotaku.com

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Guitar Hero without a guitar

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:46:57 +0000

This year, I'm helping the User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) conference put their proceedings videos online so that more people can access them. So far, I've gotten most of the videos from this year uploaded to the conference YouTube account . If you've closely followed the tech ...

MAKE Magazine found this 11 days ago on procrastineering.blogspot.com

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Apparel as instrument: Rock Guitar Shirt

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:52:10 +0000

Now you can give up air guitar and start playing your shirt. This ThinkGeek Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt includes its own mini amplifier (that actually goes to 11), and when you strum the shirt with the magnetic pick, it rips out some raucous samples of distorted-sounding guitar chords. ...

The UberReview found this 8 days ago on dvice.com

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Exclusive hands

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:18:00 +0000

Exclusive hands-on video and gallery: Band Hero review T3 rocks out to some... erm...Taylor Swift. This November sees the launch of Band Hero, which is basically Guitar Hero for those non-gnarly pristine souls, who'd rather spend their Saturday nights watching X-Factor than leaving a trail of ...

T3.com All found this 8 days ago on t3.com

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DJ Hero hit by low pre

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:16:22 +0000

DJ Hero hit by low pre-order sales woe Activision's fun turntable game hasn't attracted many pre-orders, according to analysts DJ Hero doesn't go on sale until the 30th of October, but already it's being hit with poor sales expectations. In fact, sales projections have been cut by 61 per cent, ...

T3.com All found this 8 days ago on t3.com

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Video: DJ Jazzy Jeff revealed as DJ Hero character

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:16:22 +0000

Yo! Back up now and give a brother room... If Boom Shake The Room is not to appear in the game, we'll be crestfallen, but while that remains in question, we're delighted to exclusively reveal that DJ Jazzy Jeff will appear in DJ Hero as a playable character. Yes, Will Smith's former partner in ...

T3.com All found this 8 days ago on t3.com

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