"This week, will Zero Punctuation's rock star fantasies be fulfilled with Guitar Hero World Tour?"

""If that light intensity value exceeds a predetermined threshold we know we need to hold down that key and actuate the strum bar after a predetermined delay," explains Ivan Gagne, "while the note travels down the screen to the bottom play line."

The pneumatic fingers hover over the Guitar Hero peripheral, which is housed in an aluminum box frame. The guitar peripheral has also been modified to include a Wiimote inside it.

The idea was to demonstrate Cyth Systems' expertise in integrati..."

"Next was the “most importation thing in this broadcast…” The Heidi Klum Underwear Commercial. What do you think Bill though? Well you might be surprised."

Guy demonstrates the editing capabilities in the new Guitar Hero game, Guitar Hero: World Tour. For example, the guy drums a beat into the game which is recorded. He then plays it back and has a button to omit certain bits. He can even change the volume of the drumming by changing the position of the guitar. Another feature is playing it back in a different way, which he shows with the drumming played back in a gaming/techno/trance sort of sound.

The game is set to come out very soon, so w...

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Rock Band 2

While everyone loves strumming the bass or wailing on lead guitar while someone else screams into the mic, users frequently criticized the drums in the original Rock Band. As fun as they are, they’re too simple, not realistic enough and way too loud (not in a good way). But drums in music games like Rock Band pose a unique problem for developers: They can’t make them too complicated—no one would want to play except professional drummers—but developers need ..."

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We've seen a lot of Guitar Hero bots in our time, but we're pretty certain that Mechanized Rock's take on shredding automatons is something special. The system -- dubbed DeepNote -- actually watches the on-screen action with "eyes" that it uses to analyze notes, which the bot then plays in real-time. Using photodiodes aimed at the screen, the components pick up changes in light within eight nanoseconds, then convert that information to brazen, parent-shocking, full-throttle rock n' roll. ..."