An Xbox 360 press release has dropped announcing the XBOX 360 Wireless Microphone for use with most 360 vocal games, big shocker for the Rock Band fans out there is that there is no word on when or if it will ever work with the Rock Band games.
Official Press Release: "Get ready aspiring music stars, the biggest music event is taking place in the best hot spot ever – your living room! Now you can take the stage solo, or join your friends like true rock stars or power duets, free from the clutter of wires. Grab your friends and get ready to croon along to the best songs on your favorite Xbox 360 music games with the new Xbox 360 Wireless Microphone. Belt out your vocals while playing games like “Lips,” “Guitar Hero Metallica,” “Rock Band 2”* and “Disney Sing It: High School Musical 3: Senior Year” as well as new blockbusters available this holiday, including “Lips: Number One Hits” and “The Beatles: Rock Band.”
Whether you want to jam to today’s biggest hits or revive Beatlemania, the Xbox 360 Wireless Microphone will bring out your best performance with high-quality voice reproduction technology and stylish interactive motion sensors and lights. Available this fall, the Xbox 360 Wireless Microphone will have an estimated retail price of $49.99 (U.S.).
Gamers itching to get a taste of Guitar Hero: Metallica in advance of the game’s release need not wait any longer as Activision announced that the demo will be available today for free download on Xbox Live Marketplace.
In the demo, virtual rock stars across the globe can shred, drum and wail to Metallica’s explosive hits “Sad But True” and “Seek And Destroy,” as well as “No Excuses” from Alice In Chains and “Stone Cold Crazy” from Queen, both hand-picked by Metallica as featured guest acts in the game. Set in The Forum venue, highlighting the new in-the-round stage designs and custom camera angles, players can begin honing their skills in single-player and band Quickplay, head-to-head, Face-Off, Pro Face-Off and Battle gameplay modes.
“Ride the Lightning” with musical icons Metallica and 21 other rockin’ acts in an all new Guitar Hero experience – Guitar Hero Metallica. Enter the world of Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo and experience the intensity and skill of one of the greatest bands of all time. Shred on the guitar controller, rip on the drum kit controller and wail on the mic to a set list featuring over 45 explosive hits from Metallica’s illustrious career.
March is a bumper month for all the latest game demos from the Xbox Live Marketplace. We have compiled a small list which we hope you all check out on your xbox 360 and get back to us.
With all the big titles coming to the marketplace it's really starting to get hard to choose between them so why not check 'em all out.
Have you forgotten you can easily setup your xbox 360 to automatically download these items from any pc. Simply log-on to the xbox.com website and browse the Xbox Live Marketplace area. This way you can select to DOWNLOAD directly to your XBOX 360. The very next time you turn on your xbox 360 your download queue should be updated automatically.
We hope to see you all in our forums in or online for a game in one of our HQ clans in the near future.
Here is a news story found on Metallica.com recently, revealing to the world the proper setlist for Guitar Hero Metallica. From the looks of it, even the old-school Metallica fans should be happy with the selection. On to the news story:
"Another piece of the Guitar Hero puzzle . . . the track listing! In case you're just tuning in now, the all 'Tallica Guitar Hero will be hitting the streets on March 29 with some really cool features like different classic venues such as the L.A. Forum, Tushino Airfield, and The Hammersmith Odeon, the ability to play as us or in single instrument mode, and even the Expert+ setting with double bass drum kick pedals.
So without further ado, here are the songs on the game . . . both from us and from some of the bands we admire and even call friends:
Metallica Tracks All Nightmare Long Battery Creeping Death Disposable Heroes Dyers Eve Enter Sandman Fade To Black Fight Fire With Fire For Whom The Bell Tolls Frantic Fuel Hit The Lights King Nothing Master of Puppets Mercyful Fate (Medley) No Leaf Clover Nothing Else Matters One Orion Sad But True Seek And Destroy The Memory Remains The Shortest Straw The Thing That Should Not Be The Unforgiven Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Wherever I May Roam Whiplash
If you downloaded the "Death Magnetic" album for Xbox and PS3, those ten songs will play in their entirety in the full game mode. PS2 and Wii versions (coming in the Spring, most likely in early May) will include "Broken Beat & Scarred," "Cyanide" and "My Apocalypse" since they are not compatible with the Death Magnetic downloadable content.
Other Artists Alice In Chains - No Excuses Bob Seger - Turn The Page Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross Diamond Head - Am I Evil? Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather Kyuss - Demon Cleaner Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesdays Gone Machine Head - Beautiful Mourning Mastodon - Blood And Thunder Mercyful Fate - Evil Michael Schenker Group - Armed and Ready Motorhead - Ace of Spades Queen - Stone Cold Crazy Samhain - Mother of Mercy Slayer - War Ensemble Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head System of a Down - Toxicity The Sword - Black River Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
Here is a bit of info for all the Metallica fans out there that had no love for the new tracks and like me want the good tracks from back in the day, while the list could be better i must admit i am still waiting for this pack to hit so i can scoop it up ASAP.
EuroGamer.net reports: Activision has told Eurogamer that Guitar Hero: Metallica will be rocking onto European shelves this May.
The publisher's comments come after a internal schedule was supposedly leaked to French website LiveWii, citing the same date.
The news is also hot on the heels of US retailer GameStop claiming Guitar Hero: Metallica will be out there on 29th March.
Metallica follow Aerosmith as the focus of a spin-off Guitar Hero game, and bring with them full drum/guitar/microphone GHWT support plus fancy sounds for the GHTunes recording studio.
In celebration of the bonkers ability of band co-founder Lars Ulrich, Guitar Hero: Metallica will also sport an Expert Plus drumming difficulty and freestyle drum fill mode. There's lots of Metallica trivia, photos, set lists and videos, too.
Guitar Hero: Metallica is in development for Xbox 360 and PS3.
The songs confirmed so far are as follows:
* Enter Sandman - Metallica
* For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
* Fuel - Metallica
* Hit The Lights - Metallica
* King Nothing - Metallica
* Master of Puppets - Metallica
* No Leaf Clover - Metallica
* Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
* Sad But True - Metallica
* The Unforgiven - Metallica
* Where I May Roam - Metallica
* No Excuses - Alice in Chains
* Turn The Page - Bob Seger
* Hell Bent For Leather - Judas Priest
* Demon Cleaner - Kyuss
* Tuesdays Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
* Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
* Armed and Ready - Michael Schenker Group
* Mother of Mercy - Samhain
* Black River - The Sword
For those who have been on some deserted island in the middle of the pacific, Guitar Hero: Metallica is Neversoft's upcoming rhythm game based on the latest Guitar Hero: World Tour series and has just had a brand new debut trailer released for all to see.
METALLICA'S
FIERECIST SONGS AND OVER 20 GUEST ACTS
"Guitar Hero: Metallica" will be the second game of the Guitar Hero series to focus on the career and songs of one band, similar to the previous Guitar Hero: Aerosmith but this time the new Guitar Hero: Metallica game will support for lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals.
Guitar Hero: Metallica Soundtrack will include:
"Armed and Ready" Michael Schenker Group
"Black River" The Sword
"Blood and Thunder" Mastodon
"Demon Cleaner" Kyuss
"Enter Sandman" Metallica
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" Metallica
"Fuel" Metallica
"Hell Bent for Leather" Judas Priest
"Hit the Lights" Metallica
"King Nothing" Metallica
"Master of Puppets" Metallica
"Mother of Mercy" Samhain
"No Excuses" Alice in Chains
"No Leaf Clover" Metallica
"Nothing Else Matters" Metallica
"Sad but True" Metallica
"Tuesday's Gone" Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Turn the Page" Bob Seger
"Unforgiven The Unforgiven" Metallica
"Wherever I May Roam" Metallica
Machine Head, Queen and The Foo Fighters have also been said to have a track included in the game.
While other downloadable content from Guitar Hero III or Guitar Hero World Tour will not be usable in Guitar Hero: Metallica, the game will detect and incorporate the songs from the Death Magnetic downloadable content into the game's setlist.
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