Drakong and Fender have teamed up to create a multiplatform guitar controller for Fortnite Festival, Guitar Hero and more.

Guitar Hero, a once-popular rhythm game, has been absent from the gaming scene for years, leaving fans nostalgic and craving for more. Fortunately, there are several rhythm games like Hi-Fi Rush ...

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with Band Hero – it is a good game – however ultimately it is a tweaked version of more of the same. If you’ve never liked the series, there is no reason ...

Those games dominated the late 2000s, but game publishers basically stopped investing in the concept after Activision’s 2015 entry, Guitar Hero Live, fell flat.

I’ve broken down the three main music video game franchises— Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Rocksmith— in terms of what they can teach you and what they can’t. Guitar Hero: Better than nothing ...

In some ways, Guitar Hero™ and Rock Band™ seem like the stupidest games on earth. Colored discs scroll down a TV screen, and eager participants mash colored buttons in time with what they see.

By 2007, Activision's Guitar Hero franchise was a known quantity and a wild success in the video game industry. But with Rock Band, which arrived that December, MTV Games changed the game.

After the release of some 20 games and spin-offs between 2005 and 2010 made everybody completely sick of games with “Hero” at the end, Activision killed the series in 2011. Game historian Liam ...

In my house, peripheral-heavy music games are more like board games than video games. I don't play Rock Band 4 or Guitar Hero Live the same way I do League of Legends, Life is Strange or Fallout.

After playing Guitar Hero Live and flicking over to Rock Band 4 I found myself becoming bored quite quickly, and wanting to change back. The crude animations that Rock Band has always offered just ...

Winner: Rock Band 4 While Guitar Hero TV is the more innovative of the two services, a rhythm game is all about the music. If you're willing to shell out money for DLC, Rock Band's selection is ...

While Rock Band 4 played it completely safe by paring down an experience we already knew and expected, Guitar Hero Live did literally everything it could to rethink the existing formula. Getting ...