It's been a big week for controller brand PDP. Not only did its Victrix Pro BFG Xbox Series X gamepad get a February release window, but the brand has also just re🃏vealed that it'll be making the very fi🙈rst guitar controller for PS5 and Xbox Series X. 

That's right - if you've been at all nostalgic for the bygone era of heading to a friend's house to jam out together on Guitar Hero or Rockband, it's time to get excited about reliving those days. Fortnite Festival launched in December of 2023, adding to the ever-expanding Fortnite-verse, and it looks as though it'll introduce some exciting additions to our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS5 controller list.

PDP's new controller, 💫called the RIFFMASTER Wireless Guitar, is a Guitar Hero-like accessory that🍌 officially works with Rock Band 4, but has "anticipated compatibility" with Fortnite Festival when controller support is added. Hilariously, Rock Band 4 is a 2015 game originally launched on PS4 and Xbox One in the same year as Guitar Hero Live, the last entry that franchise has seen.

Rock Band and Guitar Hero had some truly great peripherals, but PDP seems to have found ways to improve on them. For starters, it has a wireless connection and a battery life that lasts 36 hours - even most of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PC controllers could never. 

It also has a 3.5mm headphone jack, a joystick on the guitar's neck to help you navigate in-game menus and console UI, and folds down at the base of the nec♎k so you can take it on the go or store it away neatly.

If you're anything like me, you probably have a couple of Guitar Hero controllers sitting around that are nice to look at but are functionally useless because their USB dongles have gone missing. The new PDP RIFFMASTER has a slot under its rem🎃ovable faceplate to hold and protect your USB dongle. 

Annoyingly, the price and release date are to be determined, although we know it should hit the shelves at some point in the Spring. The fact it's officially licensed for both PS5 and as an 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X controller is no short of a miracle but isn't all that surprising when PDP managed the same feat for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Victrix Pro BFG, our top pick for PS5 which is available fo🐻r  

Honestly, I couldn't be more excited about this. In the last few days before this news broke, I was thinking of writing a retrospective feature all about why Guitar Hero Guitars are some of my favorite gaming controllers of all time. While that type of rhythm game has seemed dead in the water for yᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚears, Fortnite Festival and a new licensed controller may say otherwise. 

Will we see a revival of rock-based rhythm games? Could we get modern-day remasters of classics like Guitar Hero 3? Famously, this was a difficult genre for Activision to maintain, not least becaus♏e paying for music licensing probably cost an arm and a leg.

Fortnite Festival does seem promising, especially seeing as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Epic Games acquired the old developer of the Rockband games, Harmonic. With 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft finally co♓mpleting its purchase of Activision Blizzard, hoꦛwever, might this be an exciting new dawn for both franchises?