Who didn't see this coming? This guy!! If you were looking for a reason to purchase Guitar Hero World Tour, then you've got one now.

Activision dropped a bomb on the gaming industry by announcing that Jimi Hendrix will make his video game debut as a playable character in Guitar Hero World Tour. The "strumming samurai" also brings with him two of his most popular tracks (for now):

"Purple Haze (Live)" (recorded in 1969 at the San Diego Sports Arena)

"The Wind Cries Mary"

This is big news and no doubt a smack in Rock Band's face delivered by Activision.

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We’ve heard it was coming and the rumors proved to be true. Get ready to “Rock Out”! We’ve finally got a look at Guitar for the Nintendo DS.

Guitar Hero has been the talk of the gaming industry for a while now. Whether on the PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, or Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero has allowed people to switch the rhythm from their feet, a la Dance Dance Revolution, to their hands. It’s, “hands down” (see what I did there with word-play), the best rhythm-based game on the consoles and now it’s going portable.

Activision is bringing us Guitar Hero On Tour for the Nintendo DS and I couldn’t be more excited. Pictures of the attachment have been floating around the internet, but now we can actually see how’s it’s going to work. The following has got to be one of the funniest trailers I’ve ever seen, especially when the usage for the DS mic is demonstrated. This is definitely going to be a blast on the go.

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Some thought I was crazy, some just dumb for having the idea... well do smell that? It's some warm humble pie a-cookin' in the kitchen!

Joystiq has reported that an all Beatles Guitar Hero may be in the works.

Yeah, you read that right, all Beatles music much like the forthcoming all Aerosmith GH game. I can't tell you how excited I am about this. I've only recently started listening to more music by The Beatles and coming to appreciate their role in rock n' roll history as well as pop culture. The idea of having a game where I can let my inner George out would be so much fun.

And since I obviously have Sony's ear right now [as Sony controls the rights to the Lennon-McCartney copyrights] what would be GREAT would be having some of the albums by The Beatles available as DLC for RockBand. Who wouldn't want to be able to make a RockBand Beatles tribute band.

Huh? Who's with me?

Just some food for franchise thought.

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In case you missed it, Activision announced a ship date for the new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. Now don't get me wrong, I love Aerosmith. Well, let me rephrase. I love early and classic Aerosmith and I'm intrigued by the idea of a GH game set around the work an entire band, so I got to thinking; which band would I absolutely go ape over to have a GH game based around.

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So right off the bat I think of the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, The Doors...all bands with songs in their repertoire that defined or help shape the rock and roll genre. [They are also some of my most favorite music artists]. But while I started thinking deeper on the subject and other influential artists that deserve to be presented to a new audience. People like Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, can you imagine an entire ZZ Top GH game? What about a Curtis Mayfield one? Huh? Can you dig it? I know I can.

This of course led me to what I think would be the holy grail of band-centric and complete licensing nightmare GH games: Guitar Hero: The Beatles.

First of all, the game could only be comprised of tracks created and performed by the band. No covers, no tribute bands. Has to be The Beatles playing The Beatles songs. Secondly, at least two of the remix tracks from the Cirque du Soleil show Love should included as the final set to play. You wanna be a rock god? Then you play from "Twist & Shout" to "The End" and come and talk to me. Activision hear my plea: go talk to George Martin, Paul, Ringo, Yoko, and Olivia and get to working on that... before the Harmonix/MTV Games people catch on and make RockBand: The Beatles.

Who will get my money first?

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