New Pumpkins single to debut in GH4

By Robert Purchese Published 3 September, 2008

With playable Billy Corgan.

The new single from Smashing Pumpkins will debut in Guitar Hero World Tour.

New track "G.L.O.W" will be bundled with "1979" and the fantastically-named "The Everlasting Gaze", and be available as a download for Xbox 360 and PS3 sometime after Guitar Hero World Tour launches this autumn.

Singer-songwriter and lead guitarist Billy Corgan will also be a playable character in the game, and brings with him the song "Today" from the 1993 album "Siamese Dream".

Jimi Hendrix is, of course, another of the exclusive playable rock heroes in Guitar Hero World Tour, who will offer a live version of "Purple Haze" to strum along to.

Guitar Hero World Tour adds drums (with cymbals) and a microphone to the already successful guitar-based music series.

Rock Band creators Harmonix and MTV aim to counter this by launching Rock Band 2 on Xbox 360 in the US at around the same time, with notable improvements.

Thankfully, both Sony and Microsoft recently assured us instruments from Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2 and Konami offering Rock Revolution will work with all three games to some degree.

Sony will also make SingStar microphones compatible, although Microsoft has yet to announce karaoke challenger Lips will do the same.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Phily50 #1 4 years ago

    I'm honestly looking forward to GH 4 10 times more than I was/am looking forward to RB2. The studio feature looks ace.

  • Zomoniac #2 4 years ago

    If the studio had vocals then I might agree. Ultimately my faith in Harmonix to deliver is a thousand times greater than my faith in Neversoft. Also one company knows how to release DLC, and the other doesn't.

  • johnnybrn #3 4 years ago

    Cool, the Pumpkins rock!

  • HEAVYface #4 4 years ago

    i can play thse songs on a real guitar, look kids! *south park*

  • RedSparrows #5 4 years ago

    The Everlasting Gaze kicks so much ass.

  • Tuffty #6 4 years ago

    Good news about the Pumpkins, but aside from a couple of great choices (Trapped Under Ice, Beat It, Hotel California, Purple Haze and Hot For Teacher), the setlist looks like it was chosen by Kerrang TV viewers. Bullet For My Valentine? Lost Prophets? Korn? Linkin Park? Surprised that My Chemical Romance iisn't in there already. If it wasn't for those favourable choices I mentioned, I wouldn't give this setlist a second thought.

  • Feanor #7 4 years ago

    Can a GH:Smashing Pumpkins be too far away? Or maybe an SP album will be the first full album available for download for Guitar Hero.