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Our editor rattles off his top 10 games of 2008, with a few extras. Mario fans may throw their shoes at him.

Monday we reported that Guitar Hero guitars worked in Rock Band 2 and that the Nyko FrontMan Guitar now needed to be set to “Guitar Hero” mode in order to work in Rock Band 2 — and indeed it does not work at all in “Rock Band” mode set on the guitar’s receiver.s
We brought this [...]

I’ll tell you what’s up: the Guitar Hero guitars work with Rock Band 2 on PlayStation 3.
This was a big conundrum last year when we realized Activision and Harmonix weren’t going to play nice and let us use their guitars on the competing games.
We’re looking into what happened, but for sure we know that the [...]

Tell your roadies to take their time with the sound check. According to CrunchGear, the Rock Band 2 bundle for the Xbox 360 has been delayed a month.
Originally slated for September 14, it now looks like 360 users won’t be able to rock out even more extremely until October 19. October 19 is, coincidentally, the [...]

Okay, so it wasn’t the most surprising, awe-inspiring E3 ever, but we had a great time and saw some amazing things.

Here’s what we took away from the conference.

This was the year everyone wanted to rock out at E3. With big releases like Rock Band 2 and Wii Music, and smaller debuts like Lips and Ultimate Band, the stage is set for every single class of gamer imaginable.