Toy joins guitar and 'Guitar Hero'
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How many more gadgets do we need to help us pretend to play guitar? At least one, apparently.
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Magnetic toys have been ubiquitous at birthday parties for years. Now they are also appearing in lawsuits.
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A new device from Hasbro further blurs the lines separating toys, video games and television.
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Masaya Matsuura and Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the pioneers of music gaming, speak with Wired.com about innovating in a post-Guitar Hero world.
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Air guitars just got real. Japanese toy  makers unveiled "air guitar" gadgets at the annual Tokyo  International Toy Show that, thanks to heat and motion sensors,  actually make music.
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With their new crop of products that plug into the Internet, toy makers are placing bets on the longstanding enthusiasm among children for collecting things.
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This holiday season there are dozens of DVD players with rechargeable batteries and headphone jacks. The Coby V.Zon TF-DVD 560 adds Sega games to the mix.
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Activision Inc on Friday unveiled  a new "Guitar Hero" video game focusing on the rock band  Aerosmith, taking the billion-dollar franchise in a new  direction.
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This is a gadget that&#39;s likely to eventually become a worldwide household hit. That holds true especially if your household includes, as mine does, a young man who grew up with the original PlayStation.
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The Young Woz and Jobs Playset, the latest limited-edition custom minifig product from PodBrix, goes on sale Wednesday at 9 p.m. EDT.
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Music I have finally found a guitar I can play. (It's never been my lack of musical talent, you see. It's always been the instruments.)
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Tycho:  It started with the rumor that a patch was en route for Rock Band on the PS3, one that would accomplish the unthinkable:  support for its rival's guitar controller.  We've been using Guitar Hero controllers on the 360 version for awhile, completely out of necessity, and if that path had been barred to us we might not have been able to play at all.
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News flash: Kids like playing with toys. No one is stopping the presses over that observation, but it could help turn around the slumping toy industry this holiday season as it battles video games, cellphones and iPods for coveted spots on children's wish lists.
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NPD group has reported that American retail sales of Activision's popular Guitar Hero music simulator franchise have put it among the top-selling game franchises of all time, earning over $1 billion in 26 months.
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Activision Inc is set to launch  "Guitar Hero 3" amid expectations that the latest installment  of its music-themed franchise will be a platinum hit for the  second-biggest U.S. video game publisher.
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A couple of musical iPhone apps and a Nintendo DS game take the place of guitar, keyboards and more in the hands of tuneful gadget freaks.
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A pair of new add-ons for Nintendo Co.'s Game Boy Advance turn the handheld into something considerably more than a gaming machine &#151; a video phone and a video player. As long as you bear in mind that you're dealing with a toy, you might not be too bothered by the less than stellar quality.