Guitar Hero World Tour news

* Jimi Hendrix, The Raconteurs, The Smashing Pumpkins are all coming to Guitar Hero World Tour as downloadable content.

Jimi Hendrix : The blues track “If 6 was 9” rhythm and blues classic “Little Wing” and a live version of the iconic Hendrix track “Fire”.

The Raconteurs : Are set to leave their mark with three tracks off their second album Consolers of the Lonely. The trio of “Salute Your Solution” “Hold Up” and “Consoler of the Lonely” will debut on a video game as part of a three song set list.

The Smashing Pumpkins : Will debut their new single "G.L.O.W." exclusively in the game. The new track, bundled with two other rocking Smashing Pumpkins hits, “1979” and “The Everlasting Gaze” will be available post-launch of the game as a three-song downloaded content pack.

Additionally, on-disc with the release of Guitar Hero World Tour this fall, The Smashing Pumpkins’ singer, songwriter and lead guitarist Billy Corgan will appear as an in-game character and will bring with him “Today” the band’s smash hit from their pivotal and four-times platinum 1993 album Siamese Dream.


* On October 31. Amazon.com will put on for sale a Gene Simmons Guitar Hero controller, named "The Axe". The axe-shaped guitar is compatible with both Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and features a bi-directional strum bar, an analog whammy bar, and ultra-responsive fret buttons.The guitar, which is only compatible with the Playstation 2 and 3, also comes with a sticker of Gene Simmons' face and signature on the front.








* Logitech will release a Guitar Hero controller that costs as much as a real guitar, $250. The new controller has a Strat-style design and features a wood neck, rosewood fingerboard and metal frets. It works with all versions of Guitar Hero on the PS2 and PS3 and should be available in December.

"There's no better feeling than being the guy with the best instrument when you walk into your friend's house to jam on Guitar Hero," said Ruben Mookerjee, Logitech's director of product marketing for gaming.



* You can of course do it like Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne has done it. The band's latest piece of crazy gear has been revealed to be a double-neck Epiphone G-1275 customised to include, amongst other things, a Guitar Hero controller.

Coyne explained "I've constructed this great looking Guitar Hero double-neck guitar thing here because there's a lot of kids out there that actually think this is how you play guitar now. You just press a series of four or five buttons and it makes every sound the guitar can make."
Coyne's pimped double neck consists of one regular guitar neck, and a neck with a Guitar Hero controller hooked up to a Korg Kaossilator. you can hear it here.