Music Games: Nintendo Remix, Rock Band, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits

Besides the cool new Nintendo DSi video with Jamie Lidell, other music game tidbits include Guns N’ Roses latest album Chinese Democracy in its entirety on Rock Band as downloadable content on April 14, and the release of Guitar Hero: Smash Hits in June, which will be a “best of” collection of the Guitar Hero series’ most popular songs.

RedOctane, the company that publishes the Guitar Hero franchise, is tackling the Hip Hop genre next with DJ Hero, which they believe will expand the audience for music games. Co-founder Kai Huang said that music games are “not a fad”, and that what the company has achieved so far is just “the beginning of a huge category.”

Check out some of the announced tracks for Guitar Hero: Smash Hits after the jump:

Guitar Hero

• “Killer Queen” – Queen
• “I Love Rock N Roll” – Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
• “Bark At The Moon” – Ozzy Osbourne

Guitar Hero II

• “Them Bones” – Alice in Chains
• “Killing in the Name” – Rage Against The Machine
• “Message In A Bottle” – The Police
• “Carry On Wayward Son” – Kansas
• “Free Bird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

• “I Wanna Rock” – Twisted Sister
• “Nothin But A Good Time” – Poison

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

• “Barracuda” – Heart
• “Through the Fire and Flames” – DragonForce

Huang joked that it would be possible to get game players to start listening to accordion music if an “Accordion Hero” existed – such is the power of music video games.

Source: Kotaku