Use Of Rock Band Instruments With Guitar Hero "Expressly Prohibited" [Guitar Hero: World Tour]
kotaku.com 10/28/2008 — Activision made kind of a big deal at E3 about Guitar Hero/Rock Band cross-compatibility. Said that, yes, you'd be able to use Rock Band instruments in Guitar Hero World Tour. But don't for a second...

Media Coverage: The Press Responds
gamedaily.com 1/23/2009 — Media Coverage catches up with three journalists who caught heat this month, including a Forbes writer who called Rock Band a "knockoff." Here's their side of the story.

MIDI drums for Guitar Hero and Rock Band
hackaday.com 12/2/2008 — Embedded above is [egyokeo]’s solution for using MIDI drums with Guitar Hero. He’s playing a DrumKAT MIDI kit. It connects to a PC running his MIDI Hero software, which handles timing and multinote combinations. The PC uses a USB ...

The Official Guitar Hero/Rock Band Compatibility Chart [Guitar Hero]
kotaku.com 11/14/2008 — If you own both Guitar Hero (III or World Tour) and Rock Band (1 or 2), you'll be both familiar and ultimately sick of the compatibility issues between the two franchises. They will work, they won't...

News - Analysis: Which Guitar Hero Package Do People Buy?
gamasutra.com 3/10/2009 — [Rhythm games' full band kits retail for high, high prices -- but are consumers really buying them? Gamasutra's Matt Matthews checks out how well they're selling, how much Activision's making, and implications for Rock Band: Beatles .] This week's ...

Rock Band May Have 5,000 Songs This Year, says MTV
gamedaily.com 1/28/2009 — 5,000! MTV apparently will be adding thousands more songs to the Rock Band platform this year. We suggest you start sending in your requests to Harmonix now.

Guitar Hero, Rock Band Add Killers Tracks | Game | Life from Wired.com
blog.wired.com 11/15/2008 — Humankillers Both Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band will add downloadable tracks from The Killers later this month, say Activision and Harmonix. Each game will get three of the Las Vegas band's tracks on November 25, the day that its new album Day ...

Viacom: Rock Band attracts more talent
xbox360fanboy.com 12/12/2008 — According to Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman (Via Edge Online ), Rock Band has an easier time of attracting musicians than its competitor, Guitar Hero . Dauman said that he believes artists see that Viacom has a "music orientation" (the company owns ...

Guitar Hero 5's drums getting a Rock Band makeover?
engadget.com 7/6/2009 — Looks like that bulky Guitar Hero World Tour drumset might be getting itself an extreme makeover in time for the launch of Guitar Hero 5 . According to our source, the blurred render above is the newest plastic percussion peripheral, and ...

Viacom: Talent Prefers Rock Band
edge-online.com 12/10/2008 — The Rock Band franchise has an easier time attracting music talent than its competitors, claimed Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman during the UBS 36th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference on Tuesday. "There's a strong music orientation ...

Guitar Hero World Tour Gets Euro Band Tracks — I4U News 12/12/2008
Activision has announced that Guitar Hero World Tour has added new downloadable songs from some of Europe's most popular groups just in time for the holidays. New tracks include "'54, '74, '90, 2010" from the German rock band Sportfreunde ...

Nintendo sells 2 million Wii consoles in November — The Seattle Times: Microsoft 12/12/2008
The company, which has its U.S. headquarters in Redmond, sold 2 million Wii video-game consoles in the U.S., double what it did in November last year and more than the combined sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 — for the ninth ...

Rockstar Announces Update for Midnight Club: Los Angeles — I4U News 12/15/2008
Rockstar has announced a new update for Midnight Club: LA that will be available early next year for the Xbox 360 and PS3 game consoles. The update includes a South Central Upgrade map that provides a new area to the city for exploration that is ...