Viacom will sell Harmonix, the creator of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band music videogames, signaling what one analyst called the death of the "plastic instrument business." The company announced its ...

It’s been a long time since we had a new Rock Band or Guitar Hero game. If you’re like me, then your old plastic instruments from those games are collecting dust in a corner, sitting unused year after ...

Harmonix is perhaps best known for pioneering the plastic instrument revolution of rhythm games, plucking along on a plastic guitar to popular songs while making the player feel like an absolute ...

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the ...

Chad joined the DualShockers staff in mid 2009 and since then has put much of his time into covering RPGs, with a focus on the Japanese side of the genre, from the obscure to the mainstream. He's a ...

The old Rock Band instrements were aging and who knows, my 360 might completely give out someday, so now I don't have to figure out a way to maintain a bunch of old plastic instruments and an aging ...