Mad Catz® Announces New Range of Official Rock Band™3 Instruments and Accessories
SAN DIEGO, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Mad Catz® Interactive, Inc. ("Mad Catz" or "the Company") (AMEX/TSX: MCZ), a leading third-party interactive entertainment accessory provider today announced a new range of official Rock Bandâ„¢3 instruments and accessories. Designed in conjunction with Harmonix, the world's premier music video game developer, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), the new range of instruments and accessories are expected to ship in time for the launch of the forthcoming Rock Band 3 video game arriving holiday season 2010. Darren Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz commented, "We believe that Rock Band 3 will prove to be a revolutionary title in the rhythm music game ...

PRS Guitars Featured in GUITAR HERO® SMASH HITS
Aspiring Guitarists Can Get Their Virtual Hands On Two Popular PRS Models Beginning June 16.

Guitar Hero® Continues to Break New Ground with Exclusive Tracks Re-Recorded Specifically for Guitar Hero®: Warriors of Rock
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The must-have, quintessential rock music collection keeps getting better as Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announces two exclusive re-records and a host of new shreddable tracks for Guitar Hero®: Warriors of Rock.

Soundgarden and Guitar Hero® Break New Ground in Epic Collaboration for the Launch of Guitar Hero®: Warriors of Rock
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hot on the heels of their highly anticipated reunion, GRAMMY® award-winning rockers Soundgarden and Activision Publishing Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero®: Warriors of Rock will come together this September in a groundbreaking collaboration that marks the first time a new music album will be simultaneously released and bundled with a video game.

Rock Bands: What are they?
A rock band is a group of musicians specializing in rock music. This music is a form of popular music with a major vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Some other types of rock music uses keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Rock music is characterized by having a strong back beat, which usually revolves around the guitar. The guitars used could be either solid electric, hollow electric, or acoustic. Usually a rock band is made up of a lead singer, guitarist, bass guitarist and drummer which form a quartet.

Eat that Green Day - Indie Band Creates Their Own Avatars
Brooklyn indie rockers, Audio Fiction’s new music video for Race the Hourglass is created entirely of Rock Band avatars of themselves, right down to the AF logo on the bass drum.

The Guitar Hero(R) Music Library Gets Hotter This Summer With an Assortment of New Additions for Guitar Hero(R) 5, Band Hero(R) and This Fall's Guitar
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Summer is in full swing and the only thing more blistering than the July sun is the guitar solos, drum fills and vocal ranges in the 12 new additions to the Guitar Hero® music library.