To hear Activision and FreeStyleGames tell it, everything in Guitar Hero Live — which launches Oct. 20 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, as well as unspecified mobile ...

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 ...

Guitar Hero might be back, but Guitar Hero Live isn't the game people remember. Sure, the basic concept is the same: players accompany pre-recorded music on a plastic guitar, hitting buttons to match ...

The official Guitar Hero Live trailer has been released, but there's still a tremendous amount of awesomeness that couldn't fit into 90 seconds. Thankfully, we were invited to hang out with the Guitar ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Guitar Hero Live has a split personality, and one of its halves is more mysterious than the other. On the one hand, there's the main game itself: ...

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If you've been following along at home, you've probably heard that Guitar Hero Live aims to reboot the once-dominant music game franchise with a brand new plastic guitar and full-motion video that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Throughout the course of this fateful meeting, the following ...

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 ...

After making plastic guitars a fixture of every living room and dorm during the first part of the new millennium, the Guitar Hero franchise has spent the last five years letting those axes go dusty.

Avenged Sevenfold is taking over GHTV for a one-hour show, taking gamers through some of their most beloved rock songs playable in Guitar Hero Live. Check out the first crowd-sourced video generated ...