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Flyleaf (pictured above, minus singer Lacey Mosley) join Guitar Hero as DLC

If you’ve played through every track on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, there are now some fresh tunes courtesy of Interscope Records.

The Interscope Track Pack offers up three new songs: Flyleaf’s “Tina,” “Carcinogen Crush” by AFI, and a remix of goth rocker Marilyn Manson’s “Putting Holes in Happiness,” a la Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The tracks are now available on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Store.

I would like to thank everyone for entering our Guitar Hero III Air Guitar Contest and announce Dennis as the winner. Dennis will soon be the proud owner of Guitar Hero 3 and the wireless Les Paul guitar for the Xbox 360.

If you didn’t win this contest, keep your head up, because we are giving away free shiznit all the time. In fact, we have another contest right now!

Enter our Fantabulous Forum Giveaway and you may walk away with any three games of your choice. Good luck and congrats to Dennis for being so damn awesome.

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Check out the gobs of stuff added today to the Xbox Live Marketplace. In addition to the abundance of Spiderwick Chronicles videos, there are also some free History Channel customizations, a very interesting Alone in the Dark Video, and a bunch more stuff. Full details following the breakage. Read more…

Years of hard living will make you look like a Guitar Hero character.

Don’t forget to hop online for a free GH3 song in the form of Aerosmith’s “Dream On”. It’s no “Walk This Way” but hey, you can’t beat free, can you? Read more…

We want to reward one lucky Riptenner with a copy of Guitar Hero 3 and the wireless Les Paul guitar for the Xbox 360.

The rules are simple, just register to be a member of our community, upload an avatar and leave a comment below with the words”air guitar”. We will pick one lucky Riptenner at random and send them out a Wireless Les Paul Guitar and Guitar Hero 3 game for the Xbox 360. Contest ends February 29th at Midnight EST. Good luck.

After seeing the huge sales of downloadable songs for Guitar Hero III and their very own Rock Band, Electronic Arts had this fantastic idea – offer downloadable soundtracks for all of their games. Read on for why we think this is tremendously stupid. Read more…

Pennsylvania based website stootsi.com has a bunch of Guitar Hero 3 bundles (game and guitar) selling for less than you’d buy them in retail. Read more…

In a valiant, striking effort to combat the used-games trading practices of such outlets as Gamestop, the newly-united Activision Blizzard (God, I hope that name is tentative) today announced that they will be making new installments in some of their hit franchises such as Guitar Hero and Call of Duty on an annual basis, not terribly unlike the practice followed by Electronic Arts and their yearly iterations of several hit titles. Read more…

If you even think of wearing suits like this, WE will sue you

Activision’s release of “Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80’s” has spurred a lawsuit from American rock group, The Romantics. Lawsuits are common place these days, however the grounds for the suit against the publisher of the successful video game franchise seems like a stretch. Read more…

Guitar Hero and Halo fans rejoice, the Halo 3 theme will be coming to your Xbox360 as a playable song in Guitar Hero 3. The Xbox 360 exclusive (would be a bit cheeky to let Playstation 3 owners play through the theme) track will be available for download tomorrow. Read the press release after the jump. Read more…

In a press release sent out today, Activision announced the release of two new track packs that hit the Xbox Live Market Place this morning. While the release stated that the Playstation Store would be receiving them later this month, we have confirmed that they are in fact available on the Playstation Network right now as well. Read more…

No self-respecting Guitar Hero fan should miss South Park’s take on the little plastic controllers of rock. Following in the footsteps of the Emmy-winning World of Warcraft episodes, “Guitar Queer-O” has Stan and Kyle living the rock and roll lifestyle when a talent scout discovers their high score of 100,000 points. Read more…

Pro tips to help you bring the devil down…

If you’ve gotten to song 42 in Guitar Hero 3, you know what a jerk the devil can be in a rock-off. The demon code prevents him from declining a rock-off challenge, but that doesn’t mean he won’t cheat his way to stealing your soul.

Whether you’re playing on medium, hard, or expert, we found some helpful tips on how to bust a massive, monster mamma-jam and send this upstaging prick back to hell. Read more…

“For those about to rock……”

It’s not Warped Tour or Coachella, but this yearly concert tour is still one of the best shows in town. It’s got roaring crowds, outrageous stages, and even some special guest appearances. Best of all, they want you to play lead guitar. Read more…

Guitar Hero is finally facing some tough competition this year due to Rock Band, and the behind-the-scenes maneuvering between companies is probably pretty confusing to most music game fans.

The creators of Guitar Hero may have moved on to develop Rock Band, but the GH license is still going strong with big-name contributors and more addicting guitar gameplay. We talked with Activision’s Alex Ortiz, who is Guitar Hero 3’s production coordinator, about how the legal and licensing changes have affected this popular series. Read more…

The much anticipated Guitar Hero III sequel from Activision and RedOctane is set to hit shelves October 28th (this Sunday), with an estimated 3,000 plus retailers organizing midnight release parties.

Hit up your local Wal-Mart beforehand, and buy that cranky neighbor of yours a few extra pillows to block out the sounds, cuz’ practice makes perfect, and you my friend are on a quest for perfection that starts at midnight, and stops when you damn well say so! Press release after the jump. Read more…

Can’t wait until the release of Guitar Hero III to start jamming to some of the awesome rock music? Well now you don’t have to, because iTunes has published playlists for all past versions and the upcoming version of GH. This means that you can listen to all of the songs on your Apple iPod or iPhone, and that is no small feat, as Guitar Hero III alone, will host 61 face-melting rock tracks. Hit the jump for a complete list. Read more…

My fingers have BARELY begun the healing process from Guitar Hero II on the 360. My left hand is stiff, achy, swollen, and just exhausted from earning 5-stars, and what’s worst is … I love it! If you also suffer from Hero-Hand, then get out the ice-pack and rest up, because Activision has a TON of GHIII content on the way. Press release after the jump. Read more…

“The Devil Went Down to Georgia”, the final song in Guitar Hero III, was composed and produced by Steve Ouimette, a 16-year veteran of the video game industry. He has scored original soundtracks for film, mobile media, and video games. Read more…

Guns N’ Roses rocked the hell out of the late 80’s – early 90’s. And even if you aren’t the biggest fan of Axel Rose, you still have to tip your hat to Slash. Unless your hat is a fashion statement, then by all means, leave it alone! After all, something has to hold all that hair down right?

We just got a bunch of new stuff in from Activision including a cool new gameplay video as well as several new photos of the game and console specific guitar controllers. Check them out after the jump. Read more…