• Scratching the Itch.io #13

    ...want! In Guitar Hero style, you have to click the color specified as it scrolls along the top. I like creative gameplay like this, and for $2.99, this seems like...

  • E3 Day One: Microsoft/Xbox 360 Day

    ...with all sorts of spinoffs/knockoffs like Rock Band: Green Day and Guitar Hero 99. If Rock Band 3 isn’t an absolutely spectacular product, one that stands head-and-shoulders above the crowd,...

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    ...not just some hero trying to save the world from doom; in fact, the heroes themselves are the enemies, inasmuch as they’re trying to prevent you from achieving your ultimate...

  • Are You Game?: Wii

    ...good filler to round out your collection, but none of them are must-haves. Fillers: Call of Duty 3, Elebits, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Lego Star Wars: The Complete...

  • Deathsmiles Deluxe Edition (X360)

    ...a genre so saturated it makes Guitar Hero (God rest its soul) look like a one-shot TV comedy of only six episodes. It’s no joke—there’s a shooter everywhere you go,...

  • TubeHero (PC)

    ...saw TubeHero, and I fell in hate. It’s like Guitar Hero, but you play YouTube videos. That’s it. That’s the quirk. That’s why the name is TubeHero and that’s why...

  • The Importance of Music in Videogames

    ...start with the obvious: music and dance based games. Games like Rhythm Heaven, Ephemerid, Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution, Just Dance, and Guitar Hero are games about music or games...

  • Silent Hill (PS1)

    ...if you have trouble, the L2 button allows you to switch to a view behind our hero Harry (or a quasi-first-person view if you access the secondary menu options). All...

  • The 2005 GameCola Videogame Awards

    ...Center; that’s for darn sure. Board of Director’s Choice: Trauma Center – Under the Knife (DS) Readers’ Choice: Guitar Hero (PS2) Last Year’s Winner: Feel the Magic: XX/XY (DS) Most...

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    It’s a Different Kind of Gaming

    ...all that innovation is limited too. New concepts are being used that never would have been done a decade ago. Guitar Hero. Katamari Damacy. Ico. These games are fun, and...