With just over two weeks to go until Band Hero hits North American store shelves, publisher Activision has listed all of the songs in the family-friendly rhythm game.

The company also touched on downloadable content support, writing that "fans can play almost all of their previously purchased Guitar Hero downloadable content," as well as detailed the cost of bringing Band Hero songs into Guitar Hero 5 and vice versa. Read more »

Guitar Hero players that want to import their songs from Smash Hits into Guitar Hero 5 can now do so on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii.

Only 21 of Smash Hits' 48 tracks are importable. A fee of 160 Microsoft Points ($2) will be charged for the service. The full list of importable songs follows: Read more »

Following yesterday's launch of Guitar Hero 5, publisher Activision has provided a handy schedule of all the downloadable tunes coming to the game across the next month, including ditties from Street Sweeper Social Club, The Faint and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

As with Guitar Hero World Tour, each song will be available to PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 owners for 160 MS Points ($2) a pop, with bundles offering some slight savings. Read more »

You'll have to forgive us, but in the chaos of E3 2009 last week, we neglected to mention that a downloadable demo of Guitar Hero Smash Hits had arrived for Xbox Live Gold members. The good news? That free demo is now available to all Xbox 360 folk.

The demo packs three--"Rock and Roll All Nite" by KISS, "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand and "Woman" by Wolfmother"--of the game's 48 tracks, with each tune offering drum, bass, guitar and vocal play (depending on your peripheral availability). Read more »

After weeks of slowly doling out the details, Activision has finally provided IGN with the complete list of revisited songs found in Beenox's upcoming Guitar Hero Smash Hits.

Formerly known as Guitar Hero Greatest Hits, the game features 48 songs culled from past guitar-only Guitar Hero entries, with each track updated for full band play. Additionally, each tune is now a master track recording, replacing some earlier covers. Read more »

For the third straight Thursday in a row, publisher Activision has unveiled another batch of tunes featured in the upcoming "best of" Guitar Hero compilation, Smash Hits.

This week's listing specifies the songs returning from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, following earlier lists of tracks from the original Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II. Read more »

Following through on its promise to string along the track announcements for Guitar Hero Smash Hits as long as possible, Activision today announced the songs pulled from Guitar Hero II for the "best of" project.

The selected tracks include Rush's "YYZ," Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird," and other favorites from Harmonix' second title in the series.

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Fulfilling its promise of new track reveals each Thursday, Activision today issued a list of the many Guitar Hero I tunes contained in the upcoming Guitar Hero Smash Hits.

Joining the previously known Guitar Hero I tracks ("Killer Queen" by Queen, "I Love Rock N' Roll" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon") are: Read more »

At first, this trailer for Guitar Hero Smash Hits doesn't seem to offer anything new. We already know about all the songs it mentions, we know it was renamed from Greatest Hits to Smash Hits, and series veterans have a good idea of what it looks like.

But then, at the very last moment, the video redeems itself with word that the compilation of 48 past Guitar Hero tunes, now updated with master track recordings and full band play, will arrive on PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii come June 16, 2009. Nice job, trailer. Read more »

Activision today shed more light on the tracks contained within the impending release of Guitar Hero Smash Hits, which revisits 48 of the songs featured in past guitar-only Guitar Hero games and adds full band support: guitar, bass, vocals and drums.

• "Bark At The Moon" - Ozzy Osbourne

• "Message In A Bottle" - The Police Read more »