June 29, 2010 08:00 ET

Ultimate Guitar Introduces Slash Arcade Rocker Online & Mobile App Music Game

Innovative App Lets Fans Rock Out to Guitar Legend's Songs & Access Exclusive Web Content

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - June 29, 2010) -  Ultimate-Guitar.com, the world's leading online community of guitar enthusiasts, today launched Slash Arcade Rocker, a groundbreaking music/rhythm online and mobile app game featuring the songs of the legendary guitar icon.

The newest offering from Ultimate Guitar's Mobile Development Division, Slash Arcade Rocker allows the guitar legend's die hard fans to play along with three pre-loaded songs from Slash's chart topping solo debut album -- By The Sword, Watch This and Doctor Alibi -- as well as any Slash song in their music library. 

In addition to the music/rhythm game, the Slash Arcade Rocker app provides direct mobile access to the latest news, blog, tour dates and other exclusive content from Slash's official website -- which was developed and is hosted by Ultimate-Guitar.com as part of its partnership with the guitarist -- making this innovative app the ultimate fan tool.

"With Slash Arcade Rocker, we are excited to bring his legion of fans around the world a fantastic new way to enjoy and interact with Slash and his music," said Ultimate Guitar founder Eugeny Naidenov.

"The Arcade Rocker iPhone app is one of the coolest apps I've seen yet," said Slash. "I'm having a blast with it!"

The mobile version of Slash Arcade Rocker is available for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad users from the iTunes Store for $2.99. A free online version is available at http://slash.arcaderocker.com. A widget version will be available soon that users can embed on their fan sites and Facebook pages.

Ultimate Guitar launched Arcade Rocker earlier this year, garnering widespread acclaim by thousands of music fans and gamers around the world. Unlike other rhythm video games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, which offer limited selections of recordings, Arcade Rocker (www.arcaderocker.com) puts consumers in charge of what recordings they want to jam with from among their entire personal library of music, using the free Arcade Rocker Player. This unique web-based gaming experience requires no downloads or purchase of an expensive gaming console.

Ultimate Guitar Tabs, a mobile app that allows musicians to access guitar tablatures, bass tablatures and chords from the world's largest online database of tabs, has been among the iTunes App Store's top five paid music downloads since its launch in March.

About Slash
Slash is widely considered one of the greatest rock guitar players of all time. His recent solo album SLASH has topped the charts in more than 16 countries and debuted at #1 on the US rock charts and #3 on the Billboard charts. The album is a collaboration with the top vocalists in music today including Fergie, Ozzy Osbourne, Adam Levine, Chris Cornell and Myles Kennedy who has joined Slash on the current world tour in support of the album. Slash has received countless accolades and awards including a 2007 star on the Rock Walk of Fame alongside his idols Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. An original member of iconic rock band Guns N' Roses, Slash helped the band create signature sounds like the guitar riff of #1 hit "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "Welcome To The Jungle." The band dominated the 1980's and 90's music scene selling more than 100 million albums worldwide and ushered in a decade of hard charging rock music. After the band's break-up, Slash went on to critical acclaim in his personal project Slash's Snakepit, and global success with supergroup Velvet Revolver. He has been widely sought after by the biggest musicians of all time, performing with everyone from Michael Jackson to Stevie Wonder to Ray Charles. Slash is one of the marquee playable characters in Guitar Hero III, has two signature Gibson guitars in his name, and authored his own top-selling biography Slash in 2007.

About Ultimate Guitar:
Ultimate Guitar (www.ultimate-guitar.com) is the leading and fastest growing online global social media site for the guitar enthusiast community. Ultimate Guitar's 1.5 million members worldwide rely on the site for gear and CD reviews, music news, guest columns, forums, guitar and bass lessons in addition to the Internet's largest library of legal guitar tabs. Ultimate Guitar's North American headquarters is in San Francisco, CA.