PSN@Home is having a Free to enter Give-away for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) with the guitar. All you have to do to enter is be a member of psnathome.com and you are automatically entered. Although if you have not been on the website for the past week and you are picked we will pick someone else.
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The Bitbag writes, "Eager to get a preview of what's on the companion pack? Well check out these newly released videos of the companion pack footage."
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According to NPD's projection, video game sales in the U.S. will reach a record-breaking $18 billion in 2007, surpassing the $10 billion box office sales projected by The Hollywood Reporter. Halo 3 grossed over $170 million on its release day, far bigger than any Hollywood film ever has, making it the highest-grossing premiere in entertainment history.

Game Informer editor-in-chief Andy McNamara gives a partial list of blockbuster games for this fall with brief descriptions.
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Oct 31, 2007 Harmonix and Red Octane once worked together to bring Guitar Hero to the world. But now Red Octane president Kai Huang believes that, while there's room for both its own Guitar Hero brand and Harmonix's new Rock Band, Rock Band's "complex" nature means it won't offer what the "mass market" wants. "With Guitar Hero, we want to make it as broadly appealing as possible, as market, as casual a game as possible," Huang explains. "With Rock Band [it's] slightly different." "[Rock ... » Read More

Once Again, VGChartz has updated its sales charts for the week ending on October 27th. Surprise, Surprise!! Guitar Hero III finds its self at the top of the charts lead by the Xbox 360 version with 166,041 units sold. Wii version of GHIII find its self at 7th place with 52,691 units sold. GHIII for the Playstation 2 comes in at a moderate 12 place with 42,017 units sold and finally the Playstation 3 version with 36,081 units.
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The Wii version of the new music title ranked as the No. 1 offering at Amazon's Computer & Video Games division, outranking the SKU for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 at No. 7 and Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 at No. 40.

All three versions include new music tracks, a wireless guitar, and online play options.

EA next month will release a new competitor to the music game sector called Rock Band. Rock Band, which includes peripherals to form an entire virtual band, will only be sold for the Xbox 360 and PS3, and not the Wii.
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A number of internet forums are buzzing with complaints from gamers regarding faulty Guitar Hero III controllers. Some posts indicate that buttons will just flake out over a random period of time with the detachable neck of the controller being the expected culprit for the respective bug. If the problem is indeed with the detachable neck then you can bet this one will be pretty wide-spread and these aren't just isolated problems.
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Those who fired up their new copies of Guitar Hero III yesterday might have been disheartened to find that the game lacked the offline co-op quickplay mode. Luckily (for a portion of you, at least) that's going to be addressed with a quickness, thanks to a patch that 1UP says is coming this Tuesday to Xbox Live.

The bad news is that there's no word of similar treatment on the Wii or PS3 versions so far, but hopefully it's not too far off. We're not sure what's so difficult about offline co-op quickplay that it had to be addressed with a patch, but we're happy that Activision seems concerned enough about it to act on it so quickly. Of course, that's not much comfort to those without internet or (we're looking at you new Arcade owners) a hard drive to save the patch on.
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According to early tests conducted by IGN, the most compatible controller is Xbox 360's Guitar Hero 2 X-plorer model, which works with both upcoming titles, although you cannot use the special effects to the lack of a five-way switch. The GH3 Les Paul controller works with everything except the PS2 version of GH2 (played on a PS3, natch) and, like the X-plorer, cannot activates effects.

Rock Band's stratocaster, however, does not work with any Guitar Hero title on the Xbox 360. (IGN has not been able to test the PS3 version yet.) A statement released by Harmonix said, among other things, that they "welcome any 3rd party software that wishes to support Rock Band guitars. If a 3rd party guitar / music game does not support the Rock Band guitar controller, questions regarding this should be directed to the game manufacturer."
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Via Ripten:

"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.
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Several distribution companies are receiving complaints this morning as the street date for GH III has been broken. Sears is the best known retailer to release the game early so far. No word from Activision yet on any repercussions.
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Joystiq may go crazy over Harmonix and Electronic Arts' love child Rock Band, but data from IGN's GamerMetrics reminds us that the franchise has a ways to go if it wants to overtake its distant cousin Guitar Hero III.

According to the statistics, there were 22 million page views on IGN for Guitar Hero III-related articles, vs. 10 million for Rock Band (a 120% increase). GHIII was also on almost twice as many wishlists (5,755 vs. 2,928) as its competitor and over six times as many message board posts (25,000 vs. 4,000).
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The magazines Alternative Press, Decibel, Guitar Player, Kerrang and Paste will give players a chance to see their names in print. Activision has also signed up notable musical instrument and equipment manufacturers including Gibson, Crate, Krank, Mackie and Zildjian, and companies with little to do directly with music at all, like Pontiac and Axe, so their products can appear in the game.
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Activision announced this morning that just about every song to ever appear in a Guitar Hero game will be available on iTunes under Guitar Hero Essentials. A total of 1,300 guitar anthems on 20 separate essentials awaits to be downloaded.
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The review scores from EGM #222 (December 2007) are revealed:

* Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock: 9, 8.5, 8
* Sega Rally Revo: 7.5, 7, 7
* Conan: 5.5, 5.5, 5.5
* WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008: 8, 7, 5.5
* Clive Barker's Jericho: 3, 4.5, 4.5 (Shame of the Month)
* The Simpsons Game: 7, 6.5, 7
* Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War: 4, 6, 4
* Folklore: 5.5, 7.5, 8
* The Eye of Judgment: 8, 8, 8
* Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction: 8.5, 9.5, 9
* Halo 3: 10, 10, 9
* Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: 6.5, 6.5, 8
* Half-Life 2 Orange Box: 10, 9.5, 10
* Beautiful Katamari: 7, 4.5, 4
* Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations: 9, 7, 7.5
* Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness: 7.5, 7, 7
* Silent Hill: Origins: 7.5, 7, 7
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Activision announced this morning that European gamers will be able to purchase Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock from November 23rd 2007. It'll be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and PS2, and you'll be able to use the brand new wireless Gibson Les Paul guitar controllers.
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Fire up the fretboard, crank up the amp and get ready to rock like never before. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock drops you into the spotlight of the largest and most legendary rock concert ever.

Fisrt three reviews are up:

90-PSM Magazine
Basically more of the same, but we aren't complaining...It's Guitar Hero, it's next-gen, and it's the party game PS3 owners have been waiting for.

88-Game Informer
You're in for one hell of a good time.

75Hardcore Gamer Magazine
I got a gang of friends together to test it out and we spent hours unlocking songs and fooling around, but, because some of us are guitar heroes and some are guitar zeroes, having a truly quality time is a tougher than it should be. It's still well worth a look
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The music from the final encore of guitar hero III.
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Just in case you weren't enticed by ArtGuitars' Limited Edition KISS wireless Guitar Hero III controller, the company has now revealed designs based upon two additional musical megaliths: head-banging shred-masters Pantera and the ultimate Southern rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Granted, the new axes will run you around $399 apiece, but that's because the photo-quality images are chemically bonded to the wood - these aren't just vinyl stickers - and because we actually meant it when we said "wood" ... » Read More

In light of Nintendo's announcement that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been delayed until 2008, IGN's GamerMetrics analyzed the implications that this delay will have on the holiday sales of other upcoming games available for the Nintendo Wii.

According to GamerMetrics analyst Nick Williams, the resulting findings put Super Mario Galaxy at the top of the most anticipated games list. Rounding out the top three are Capcom's Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.
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