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• Guitar game uses real thing (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) 13 March 2010
  An upcoming music-themed video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument.
• Gene Simmons Confirms Guitar Hero 6 (Game Informer) 12 March 2010
  Are you ready for the next numbered entry in the Guitar Hero series? Rock legend and KISS front man, Gene Simmons, recently dropped a hint that Guitar Hero 6 is on its way. “I’m the voice of Guitar Hero 6,” the 60-year-old, face-painted musician told UK gaming show Game On . To my knowledge, no other Guitar Hero games have explicitly had a "voice, […]
• GuitarBud Plugs A Guitar Directly Into An iPhone (Gizmodo Australia) 12 March 2010
  GuitarBud is a $US29 adaptor that allows you to plug a guitar right into an iPhone. How is that useful? Well if I ever learned to play that guitar in my closet, I could: (more…)
• Guitar Studio Released for BlackBerry Mobile Devices (Harmony Central) 12 March 2010
  The application allows Guitar enthusiasts to look up guitar chords, access their play-along music collections and compose songs while on the go. LCA Mobile has announced the release of Guitar Studio for BlackBerry mobile devices.
• Zoom G2Nu and G2.1Nu guitar effects pedals offer direct USB recording (Engadget) 12 March 2010
  Zoom is kind of like Mitsubishi -- it sort of does it all . Months after shipping one of the greatest pocket audio recorders every known to man, the company is now hitting back with none other than a pair of guitar effects pedals. The G2Nu and G2.1Nu boards both feature 100 preset guitar sounds, 20 of which have purportedly been given the almighty thumbs-up […]
• GuitarBud Plugs a Guitar Directly Into an iPhone [IPhone] (Gizmodo) 12 March 2010
  # iphone GuitarBud is a $29 adapter that allows you to plug a guitar right into an iPhone. How is that useful? Well if I ever learned to play that guitar in my closet, I could: More »