When Guitar Hero first released for the PlayStation 2 back in 2005, it was a humble little game with a wacky plastic guitar. In a world of first person shooters and platforming games, Guitar Hero was ...

Guitar Hero Live and Rock Band 4 both let you rock out in your living room with plastic guitars. But that’s where their similarities end. Guitar Hero Live also delivers its content in a unique fashion ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Activision resurrected the Guitar Hero franchise in 2015 with Guitar Hero Live, and one of the music game's most interesting new features was Guitar ...

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 ...

The plastic instrument rhythm genre seemed to go on hiatus a number of years ago. Guitar Hero Live has gone a long way in advancing the genre while also taking it back to the roots of what Guitar Hero ...

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 ...

Experimental music is often used as a vessel for transcendence or catharsis. It’s a safe space that protects artists from the preconceptions or typical parameters of mainstream art. It allows for ...

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 ...

Tim Dunn and Nate Coppard are on a mission to rewire your brain. They're respectively the senior producer and senior designer behind Guitar Hero Live's new six-button guitar, and while neurological ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. 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 ...

Are you ready to rock? Well you’d better be, because Guitar Hero Live practically insists that you remain glued to the fretboard 24/7 with its addictive, always-on GHTV mode. This daring new streaming ...