Now a days, Guitar Hero is pretty much a household name, if you find a home console with some kids in the house chances are a plastic guitar won’t be far. And, if you’ve followed the franchise you’ll know that the peripherals are manufactured by Red Octane but that wasn’t always so. In the beginning MadCatz was signed on to do the deed before pulling out.

What’s even worse, MadCatz actually paid $300,000 to get out of the contract only to go on and see the series generate millions of dollars worth of revenue.

Oh well, at least they have a million different FightSticks coming out, right?

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Earlier today, we reported that the new Guitar Hero title was renamed to Guitar Hero Smash Hits. Now, we have some official boxart straight from the distributor. In case you want to imagine how it looks for a specific system, use your imagination.

Smash Hits will be hitting stores this June for the Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, and PS2.

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Activision and Red Octane have today revealed the full list of downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour. The content will be available on the first day of release, October 26th. The songs are:

• An Endless Sporadic – “Anything” (free)
• Blind Melon – “No Rain” (200 Wii Points)
• Boston – “Rock and Roll Band” (200 Wii Points)
• Foreigner – “Hot Blooded” (200 Wii Points)
• Metallica – “Broken, Beat & Scarred” (200 Wii Points)
• Metallica – “Cyanide” (200 Wii Points)
• Metallica – “My Apocalypse” (200 Wii Points)
• Rick Springfield – “Jessie’s Girl” (200 Wii Points)
• Sworn – “Electro Rock” (free)
• Ted Nugent’s Original Guitar Duel (free)
• Zakk Wylde’s Original Guitar Duel (free)

The following tracks will be available for the Wii in the following weeks:

• Oasis – “Bag it Up” (200 Wii Points)
• Oasis – “The Shock of the Lightning” (200 Wii Points)
• Oasis – “Waiting for the Rapture” (200 Wii Points)
• R.E.M. – “Horse to Water” (200 Wii Points)
• R.E.M. – “Man-Sized Wreath” (200 Wii Points)
• R.E.M. – “Supernatural Superserious” (200 Wii Points)