Today Activision unleashes their newest music themed game, DJ Hero and we have the photos to show you what is inside the box.

A demo for Band Hero is now live on the XBOX Live Marketplace. Featuring the songs "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven, "Picture to Burn" by Taylor Swift and "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves the demo offers gamers an early look into Activision's upcoming pop-centric, family friendly music title. The demo offers up Party Play, which is exactly the same as it is in Guitar Hero 5, as well as the all-new Sing-Along mode, which essentially morphs the game into a session of Karaoke.

The demo is currently only available to XBOX Live Gold members but should expand to silver members in the next week or so.

The crazy outspoken CEO of Activision, Bobby Kotick, is at it again. This time while presenting at a technology conference in San Francisco, Kotick decided to let slip some of his big plans for the behemoth music franchise, Guitar Hero. Basically he expects, Guitar Hero and other Activision properties, to bypass the console space entirely, effectively un-tethering them from the likes of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.

It seems to me like Activision's success in recent years has gone directly to the head of Mr. Kotick and he is now saying his company is big enough to go it alone. Of course if games like Tony Hawk's Ride, DJ Hero and Call of Duty's Headlamp Edition sell as well as Kotick thinks they will this holiday season, it will be hard to question his crazy business plans.

Ok, so it's not getting Huey Lewis' "Power of Love" and Marty McFly isn't actually going to be a playable in the game but honestly this is the next best possible news for the Guitar Hero franchise other than those two things happening. 1UP is reporting that Guitar Hero 5 will get backward compatibility for select tracks from Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits as well as the majority of World Tour DLC. The compatibility will be for Guitar Hero 5 on the PS3, Wii and XBOX 360.

It seems the option will handle much like the way Harmonix dealt with backward compatibility for Rock Band to Rock Band 2, as there will be a small fee attached. Of course having recently heard Activision CEO Bobby Kotick's remarks on how he would like to raise prices higher, who knows how small the small fee will actually be but at the very least it is a move in the right direction.