“I’m the voice of Guitar Hero 6,” says KISS front man Gene Simmons during a video clip produced by Game On, a division of UK media site ITN. And that’s all he says. The clip — view it after the break — has been removed from the context of what’s assumed to be a full interview and essentially turns Simmons’ statement into a gag line. Still, Simmons does appear to be the first “official” spokesperson to outright name the next iteration of Guitar Hero, albeit unofficially.

Activision previously dated a forthcoming Guitar Hero game for the “back half” of 2010. Presumably, that’s “Guitar Hero 6″ and the game Simmons will apparently star in. What? Activision didn’t offer his crew a full-on Guitar Hero: KISS game? It’s for the better, really, because all we want to do is get the digitized Simmons onstage and make him crank ‘dat Soulja Boy!

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Gene Simmons: ‘I’m the voice of Guitar Hero 6′ originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Guitar Hero: World Tour gets a fresh injection of DLC with the Activision Track Pack today, which features music from actual Activision employees’ bands. Perhaps the most noteworthy quality of this newest track pack, however, is its low, low price of free. Here’s what you’ll get:

• Awaken’s “The Silence is Deafening”
• H is Orange’s “Nothing All the Time”
• Hundred Reasons’ “I’ll Never Know”

Oh, and Activision’s press release also mentions Steve Ouimette’s “Dueling Banjos” will release next week. It will be the last DLC release before the release of Guitar Hero 5 on September 1.

Guitar Hero: World Tour gets free Activision music originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Guitar Hero: Smash Hits supposedly has all of the best Guitar Hero tracks, all rolled into one game. While we could give it our all, go through each tune and determine their value, we figured it’d be much easier (and better for you guys!) if we left that task up to one of our readers. So, with that, we present Joyswag! Hit up the rules below for how to enter and we wish you the best of luck!

• Leave a comment telling us which Guitar Hero game is your favorite
• You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec)
• Limit 1 entry per person
  
• This entry period ends at 12:00PM ET on Wednesday, August 19
  
• At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive Guitar Hero: Smash Hits on Wii ($50 ARV)
• For a list of complete rules, click here

Joyswag: Guitar Hero: Smash Hits originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Activision’s announcement that songs from Guitar Hero World Tour and Smash Hits can be “imported” into Guitar Hero 5 (and Band Hero) had everyone thinking back to Rock Band 2’s ability to rip songs right off the original Rock Band disc. As it turns out, in this case you won’t need a disc at all.

We followed up with the publisher to find out exactly how the process works, as it had been referred to as both “importing” and “downloading” on an initial info sheet. The short answer: you’ll be downloading new versions of your old songs. “Within the Guitar Hero 5 song import menu, gamers will key in their unique ID from the manual of the previous game, pay a small re-licensing fee and then be given access to download the available songs (like DLC) in a big batch,” we were told this morning. That’s for PS3 and 360; with the Wii version, the songs can be downloaded on a track-by-track basis.

“This is done to bring these songs up to date with enhanced Guitar Hero 5 features like band moments, expert+ drumming (new for World Tour songs) and the new vocal star power. The game reacts to these songs as though they were DLC and are available in the same play modes,” Activision explained.

So, you just need the manual (and a decent internet connection). Unfortunately, this means that some second-hand copies of GHWT and Smash Hits can’t be used for the process, as they’ll either be missing the original game manual, or their previous owner already redeemed the 20-digit code. “These codes can be used only once,” a PR rep revealed. “However, once you have downloaded the content, you are free to re-download it at anytime at no extra cost, if you need to make more hard drive or SD [card] space.”

Activision clarifies Guitar Hero 5 song importing process originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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