Jimmy Page and Jack White are not singing praises for Guitar Hero. Their concurrence: video games shouldn't be how people get exposed to music or playing instruments. In a press conference in LA, promoting the documentary "It Might Get Loud", the two legendary guitarists (Page from Led Zeppelin, White from The White Stripes, in case you didn't know) gave out their thoughts on music-simulation games.

Last year, Gibson Guitar Inc. filed a suit against Activision's Guitar Hero for allegedly violating patent rights. About a year later today, a U.S. District Court in the Central District of California has finally given out its decision, holding that the music game franchise does not infringe on a 1999 Gibson patent, which simulates musical performance using a 3D headset display and stereo speakers. Read more in the full article.

Guitar Center, the world's largest musical instrument retailer recently announced the findings of their national survey. The survey shows that popular music titles Rock Band and Guitar Hero increase gamer interest to own and play actual instruments, instead of just the gaming peripherals. More details after the jump.

Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar...not? With their Dark Horse tour coming up, Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger points out that there aren't many bands out there nowadays. So he's calling out to kids to "set down the Guitar Hero, learn how to play an actual guitar, and start a band."

Apparently, not all of us want to be a rockstar.

The Guitar Hero franchise is definitely one of the biggest empires in the games industry today. The series has been around for quite some time now and has been released across so many platforms in its various installments. To now hear that Guitar Hero has outsold Rock Band by a 6-to-1 ratio doesn't sound all that surprising.

Activision is definitely taking the hits nowadays. First it was Harmonix lodging a royalty suit with the company - now, Gibson Guitars, maker of fine musical axes for those of us ready to rock, has just filed a patent suit with them. It seems that the Guitar Hero franchise is infringing on one of their patents, made back during 1999. Check out all the details in the full article.

Surfer Girl's got some more inside scoop for all of us gaming aficionados, and as usual, they're just as juicy as a freshly squeezed lemon on a bright sunny day. From new Guitar Hero titles coming out this year to Sony's greatest lines for the PS3, it's bound to get you crossing your fingers tight.

Read on to find out what these goodies are.

According to data gathered by the NPD group, the Guitar Hero franchise has set a new industry record by generating over US$ 1 billion in North American retail sales over a span of 26 months. This achievement was undoubtedly helped by the recent success of the latest game in the franchise: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, PS3, PC).

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So you finally got that achievement you've been trying so hard to unlock. What do you do if, one morning, you wake up and find it gone? Check out the full article to find out what a gamer did when he lost his hard-to-get Guitar Hero 2 achievement.

This year, we've seen a lot of crazy things. But what's been popular though (Vanessa Ann Hudgens photos aside)? Yahoo! can probably answer that with their annual "Top Trends in Search" list for 2007.

While there are a lot of keywords being searched this year, what concerns us is the list of top 10 searches in technology. Who're the movers and shakers? You can probably guess already, but read more to see the full list!