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Desert Island Games is simple. You’re deserted on a lost island, but don’t fret because it’s got every console imaginable, constant electricity and a decent internet connection. The catch? You can only take three games. This week Andy Marsh makes his three picks.
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Despite approaching the tipping point for instrument based rhythm games, Lego Rock Band feels surprisingly original. Find out why with our review.

Four years ago, a young publisher by the name of Harmonix strived to push rhythm gaming to new heights. FreeStyleGames are now striving to take the rhythm genre to the next level, do they succeed?

Now with 700% more audio fidelity it’s Uninformant Podcast X. The X stands for extreme.

A bunch of new tracks of Guitar Hero 5 just got revealed. A couple of tunes I’m excited for but can’t say the overall soundtrack is too grabbing though. A bit of Gorillaz, Iron Maiden and Public Enemy makes up the next two dozen of revealed tracks of Guitar Hero 5.
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Back in the day we didn’t need microphones or drums. Actually all we needed to get our faux-rock band fix was our fake plastic guitars. Take Me Out chimed over your speakers while everyone else stood by and watched. That was the norm until Harmonix cavaliered off and introduced the rest of the band. So [...]

Wondering what tracks will be available in guitar-based song fest Guitar Hero 5. Well Activision have just released half the tracklist for you to wonder over. Gotta love the Beastie Boys and Wolfmother but I’m not sure if any of these tracks would be ones I would have picked.
Full track list after the jump

To be honest, I don’t pay too much attention to E3 these days, everything seems over-hyped and I tend to find myself being sold things that don’t yet exist, and as a marketer by trade the illusions put before the consumers are just in such a mind-blowing number that I find myself sighing and rolling [...]

Guess how much that thing costs. Well today Activision announced that the recommended retail price will stand in at £107.99. As confusing as the odd pricing is, it’s really only been met with an unsurprising disapproval. Compare that price to the standard Guitar Hero Bundles at clock in at £69.99 at most and you’ll be [...]

We take a look at the next addition in the Guitar Hero franchise, Guitar Hero Aerosmith.

The idea of a standalone version of Guitar Hero dedicated to just one band sounds like a bizarre concept. Specially when you consider that rival rhythm game Rock Band would just release a mega-DLC pack. That’s why Guitar Hero Aerosmith is a hard concept to grasp and really it comes down to how much you like Aerosmith…