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The Onion Covers Gibson vs. Fake Guitaring

Hilariously satirical website The Onion has weighed in on the epic struggle between giant corporations for control over the fake guitar market with some man on the street interviews, you know, to get opinions from us common folk.

Continue reading "Gibson Sues Over Guitar Hero"...

The DLC: Do Big Sales Really Matter?

Next Generation has an extremely in-depth article up now comparing all the statistics of the downloadable content sales for both Rock Band and the Guitar Hero series.  Is Rock Band's claim of over 6 million downloaded songs really that big of a deal?  Are Guitar Hero's downloadable stats skewed by the number of free tracks available?

Continue reading "DLC Battle: Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero"...

Quotes: Gibson Lawsuit Roundup

As you've probably heard by now, Gibson Guitar Corporation is suing just about everyone who has ever even had a thought about touching something called Guitar Hero or Rock Band for patent infringement.  Here's a roundup of opinions and speculation from around the interwebs on this very topic:

• "Is this a sour grapes issue or does Gibson really have a valid case? One has to wonder if the games weren’t successful would this even be a case?" -- Just Press Play
• "The Guitar Hero suit may surprise the many fans who have played the game, because to do so requires holding officially licensed replica Gibson guitars. It would have seemed these two companies got along: The guitars for the first Guitar Hero games were modeled from Gibson SGs, the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II included a replica Gibson X-Plorer, and the controller for Guitar Hero III is based on a Gibson Les Paul." -- MTV
• "So what do you do when you want more money but someone's not willing to give it to you? Well, sue, of course." -- Prefix Magazine
• "It seems strange that it’s taken so long for Gibson to notice the patent violation and decided to do something about it." -- BLORGE.com

Rock Band DLC Purchases Double

MTV announced today that more than 6 million songs have been downloaded for Rock Band—more than doubling the number of purchases as of just two months ago.

In late January, MTV announced it had sold 2.5 million songs since the game's Nov. 20 release.

The game now has more than 70 songs available for individual download.

(via Billboard)