Guitar Hero World Tour fans on the PS3 will love this one. Logitech announces the new Logitech Wireless Drum Controller for the PlayStation 3 platform today – complete with three premium fully adjustable drum heads and two cymbal pads.

The key features of the Wireless Drum Controller include:

• Quiet controls – you’ll hear less of the controls while making sweet music (ha)
• A durable bass pedal with a stainless steel surface
• Comes with a 2.4GHz wireless USB receiver for the PS3 and PS2 platform
• Sets up quickly and folds flat in seconds
• Uses two AA batteries
• Wireless range up to 30 feet

The Logitech Wireless Drum Controller is available in the US starting this month and in Europe starting in August for a price of $199.99.

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Unleash that rock star inside of you with the new Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for the Sony PS2 and PlayStation 3 consoles. This new “Black Edition” guitar is officially licensed for Guitar Hero and is made out of authentic materials such as a wood neck and body, a rosewood fingerboard, and metal frets. The guitar works with Guitar Hero games for the PS3, and with Guitar Hero World Tour games on the PS2 platform. 

Other features include:

• One-piece contoured wood body
• Reduced button noise
• Rubber dome technology on the fret board controls
• Touch-sensitive slider located on the neck of the guitar
• Wireless range of up to 30 feet from the console
• Hundreds of hours of battery life

The Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller will be available in a pristine black finish along with a glossy black pick guard for a retail price of $199.99. Expect the guitar to be available this month in the U.S. and in June for Europe.

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Need for Speed Undercover will hit the U.S. stores on Nov. 18th and European stores on Nov. 21st and will be available for Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PSP, PC, and mobile platforms.

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Here are some of the more interesting details about the new game:

• The electronic drum kit will feature three drum pads, two raised cymbals, and a bass kick pedal
• The drum controller combines larger and quieter velocity sensitive drum heads with soft rubber construction to deliver authentic bounce back
• Instruments will be wireless
• Music Studio gives players a full compliment of tools to create digital music from scratch using all of the instruments in the game. You can then share your content with friends online through GHTunes
• The game introduces Battle of the Bands concept which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band.  There’s also a Band mode which allows up to four players to jam together online or offline

Guitar Hero World Tour will be available for the Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, and the Nintendo Wii.

One thought.. I’m going to run out of room storing all of this equipment if I have both Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour! Sheesh!

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Electronic Arts is bringing family board game favorites to the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 2 this fall in the form of the Hasbro Family Game Night video game. The video game will feature six favorite board games – Battleship, Yahtzee, Boggle, Connect Four, Sorry! and Sorry! Sliders. Gamers will be able to play the classic versions of the above games or play new versions such as Connect Four Power Chips, Boggle Portal Cubes, Reverse Yahtzee and Battleship Barrage. You can play with up to four people with Yahtzee, Boggle, Sorry!, and Sorry! Sliders. You can play with up to two players in Connect Four and Battleship.

Players can also customize their own digital game room within the Hasbro Family Game Night video game. This means you’ll be able to choose a setting, add earned trophies, add distinctive furniture and decorations all themed to your favorite games.

Hasbro Family Game Night is due to come out this fall for the Wii and the PS2

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Here’s an interesting device for fitness oriented folks out there. Qmotions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Actiga, is launching a new game controller called the FunFitness which turns boring exercises into fun video racing games. The FunFitness controller measures running or biking body movements and then translates these movements into a video game. This means you can turn something like running in place or riding a stationary exercise bike into a full fledged gaming experience.

According to Qmotions, the FunFitness is easy to install and requires no tools at all. All you need is a stationary bike, a PS2 or Xbox, and a compatible game. Some of the games which will work with the FunFitness include:

• MTX Moto Trax
• Need for Speed Undergroud 1 & 2
• Need for Speed Most Wanted
• Gran Turismo 1,2,3, & 4
• NASCAR Sim Racing
• NASCAR Chase for the Cup
• ToCA Race Driver 1 & 2
• Midnight Club 1,2, &3

You can see a video of the controller in action here. Qmotions expects to launch the FunFitness during the second half of 2008.

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In terms of total installed base here in the US, Microsoft leads the way with 9.2 million units (it helps that Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 a year earlier than the rest). Nintendo has 7.4 million owners here in the US while Sony has 3.3 million.

While PS3 sales have certainly picked up over the last several months (heck I even bought one), the older PS2 is still outselling its newer more advanced sibling. The PS2 sold more than 1.1 million units in December compared to the aforementioned 798,000 PS3 units.

One other important note – it’s all about content. Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy was certainly helping to drive Wii sales (although a lot of consumers simply want a Wii since it’s 1) cheap and 2) fun) while Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, and Assassin’s Creed was helping the Xbox 360.

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