Hoping to directly compee with Rock Band, Neversoft’s Guitar Hero: World Tour will have its downloadable content priced at the same point as that of its rival franchise.
The first batch of DLC for the game has popped up on Xbox Live, showing individual tracks for 160 points ($2) and a [...]

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Hoping to ignite some creativity amongst gamers, Activision let out word that they will remove any track that resembles copyrighted material posted using Guitar Hero World Tour’s music-creation tool.
"We’ll be actively monitoring the site," said Neversoft project director Brian Bright. "We can’t condone people putting up covers of music. It’s [...]

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Marking a series first, Activision today announced that they will release Metallica’s new album “Death Magnetic” for Guitar Hero 3 this Friday. It will be available on both PS3 and Xbox 360.
The album will be priced at 1440 Microsoft points ($18) and will pack two exclusive editions of “Suicide & Redemption”; it will not [...]

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The Guitar Hero dudes are looking to up the ante a bit more, as Neversoft director Brian Bright told G4 that Guitar Hero World Tour is getting yet another instrument, one that will only be used in the game’s music creation mode.
While he wouldn’t reveal any details, G4 speculates that the new device is [...]

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Posting on the PlayStation Blog, SCE PR director Michael Shorrock revealed that Sony has brokered an arrangement between the developers of Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Rock Revolution to ensure instrument interoperability on the PS3.
“We have been working closely with Neversoft and Activision, Harmonix and Konami to ensure that PlayStation 3 guitars and drum [...]

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More new songs for Guitar Hero World Tour have been unveiled, this time by IGN. The new confirmed songs are:

Airbourne - “Too Much Too Young…”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Weapon of Choice”
Bob Seger - “Hollywood Nights”
Dinosaur Jr. - “Feel The Pain”
Silversun Pickups - “Lazy Eye”
Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger”
Black Label Society - “Stillborn”
Metallica [...]

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As revealed by scans from Stuff Magazine, several new tracks are set to appear in Guitar Hero World Tour. These songs include “The Joker” by Steve Miller Band, “Obstacle 1” by Interpol, “Light My Fire” by The Doors, “Beat It” by Michael Jackson, “In the End” by Linkin Park and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” [...]

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Somewhat new tracks will be available for download tomorrow for owners of the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Guitar Hero 3, Activision announced today. Dubbed the “Interscore Track Pack”, the songs are the same as those that were available to Xbox 360 owners who purchased the game’s soundtrack.
The songs are “Tina” by Flyleaf, [...]

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