Electronic Guitar Shirt
When only wear a shirt with a picture of your favorite instrument when you can actually play it? The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt from the clothing masters at ThinkGeek isn’t just a picture of a guitar, it’s actually a real instrument that allows you to play your favorite tunes right on the shirt. The shirt [...]
Soccer Hero
Nothing like having a bunch of friends come over and play some Guitar Hero, especially when beer is also at play. Is especially better when you come up with some creative ways to play your favorite rhythm game. These guys have the right idea. By using an Arduino and some piezo sensors they have managed [...]
Rock Band For iPhone Now Available
You can now head over to the iTunes App Store and pick up Rock Band for your iPhone for $10. One of the most anticipated games for Apple’s mobile gaming device lacks all of the hype that was built around it. I decided to dish out the $10 today to play it and besides suffering [...]
Rock Band For Your iPhone
This past week EA Mobile confirmed that Rock Band for the iPhone and the iPod Touch is set to be released this month. So far all we know is that it’s set to be out this month, no idea on pricing yet and that it will come with no less than 20 tracks for you [...]
UPDATE – Beatles Make It Into Rock Band
At the time of this post, further details were yet to be announced, but it appears official, Viacom and MTV Networks (owners of “Rock Band”) have licensed Beatle songs for their Rock Band game. This is a pretty big deal, since even major players like iTunes don’t even have Beatle songs yet. In fact, no [...]
More Dead Space, More Of Everything
If you own an Xbox 360, PS3, or decent PC, and can appreciate top notch audio/visual production values in your video games (along with some solid gameplay and storyline), then you owe it to yourself to check out “Dead Space”, Electronic Arts’ new survival horror game. Dead Space is getting scores in the mid to [...]
RockBand For Those Over 40
Over 40 and wonder what the whole RockBand or Guitar Hero crazy is all about? Want to jump in but don’t know how to? Maybe you would be better off with Dan’s mish-mash of sound and electronics. This guitar has been stripped of all it’s internals and has a CPU and all sorts of cool [...]
Atari 2600 + Guitar Hero = Atari Hero
What happens when you smash an old Atari 2600 and a Guitar Hero guitar together? The Atari Hero of course. Conner over at Slippery Brick has done just that. This crazy casemod is a real beauty. The guitar is wrapped in a custom circuit board pattern, and in place of the strum bar is a [...]
Beer Keg Guitar Amp. Beer Not Included
This one is set to definitely impress your friends, if your in college that is. For a mere $119 you too can get your very own 20 watt Heineken mini keg amp. How cool is that. You can use it as a practice app or on the street when playing a jam looking for some [...]
Build Your Own Tube Amplifier
Most guitarists will tell you that nothing sounds better that a tube based amplifier. The warm tones that a tube amp gives you has yet to be properly emulated with modern day mosfet amps. Gmoon over on Instructables wrote a 22-step how-to on constructing your very own sweet sounding tube based amplifier. Be warned, this [...]
iBand
Here’s a first; a band that uses handheld devices, namely two iPhone and a Nintendo DS to create music. Using various applications on the respected devices the iBand actually sounds pretty damn good. “Unfortunately we only have two iPhones, so we dug out that dusty Nintendo DS. But we want to take it further. There [...]
Activision Files For DJ Hero Patent
The maker of the popular Guitar Hero franchise has recently filed for a trademark for the name “DJ Heroâ€. The trademark makes reference to software to be released with a special controller, leading us to believe that we might soon be rocking out to an Oakenfold or Van Dyk techno track on a Xbox 360 [...]
Guitar Hero In Your Pocket
Can’t get enough of the addicting Guitar Hero game? Now you can play it anywhere, anytime. Basic Fun’s tiny Guitar Hero game offers a variety of tune from both GH 1 and GH 2, including Rock this Town, Cherry Pie, Smoke on the Water, Miserlou, Message in a Bottle, Surrender, Jessica, and Heart Shaped Box. [...]
