So, it’s official. I hate the whole Guitar Hero franchise. I couldn’t be more sick of reading headline after headline of endless clever puns about Guitar Hero and which lame band has signed a deal to create some new lame version of it. I’ve played it. I just don’t get it. I had WAY more fun playing that fireworks game you get with the Xbox 360 or Dance Dance Revolution (just not in front of people). And the Guitar Hero controllers? Don’t even get me started. For all the talk about global warming and being eco-friendly these days, you’d think these companies would have come up with a way to play a game without attaching 300 cubic yards of plastic to the tiny Wiimote. Where’s the outrage, people?!?!

But that wasn’t my point…

I’m a nice guy (really!), so I thought I’d do the nice thing and warn all you posers…ahem…I mean Guitar Hero players…about a recall of controllers that could give you chemical burns due to leaky batteries. By the by, nothing strikes fear into my heart faster than the term “leaky batteries.” Similar terms include “spider bite” and “uncontrollable swelling”…

Update: Oct 24, 2008

Logitech is manufacturing a Guitar Hero controller that costs as much as a real guitar. Make it stop!!