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Rock Band 2: Special Edition News
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CMT Blogger Miffed That 'Rock Band' Players Hate Country -- Goes All Dixie Chicks
A blogger from Country Music Television (CMT), Alison Bonaguro, is joyous that country music is hitting Rock Band this month. She's also perplexed that Rock Band fans have not welcomed the news with open arms. Scouring the official Rock Band forums, Bonaguro found the following angry lines: "If country is in that big of a demand, let them...
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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Speaks On 'Rock Band'
Megadeth's Dave Mustaine had some interesting things to say about Rock Band (which he thinks is a great game) on the band's video message boards. The stylish shredder also touches on the Internet and takes a jab at artists that do not make their music available in digital form. "We don't have any intention right now to put Rust in Peace...
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Next Week's Rock Band DLC Revealed To Be Naked Rejects In Tokio Hotels
Next week's Rock Band DLC has been revealed, ranging from the German rockers Tokio Hotel (pictured above) to the Nickelodeon-branded pop rockers the Naked Brothers Band. Hit up XBLA next tuesdays and PSN on thursday to grab any of these tracks. 80 Microsoft Points ($1) Per Song Until 1/2/09, 160 Microsoft Points ($2) After ...
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Guitar Center Claims 'Rock Band' And 'Guitar Hero' Lead To Instrument Purchases
1Up has posted an interesting story that covers the correlation between music games and instrument purchases. It turns out that playing a lot of Guitar Hero makes people want to buy an actual guitar. The story states some interesting findings from a survey conducted by Guitar Center, a leading retailer of musical instruments: "67 percent...
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Harmonix Responds To Drum Pedal Lawsuit
Over the weekend, Raymond brought you the story about a class action lawsuit filed against Harmonix over the drum pedals included with Rock Band. The suit claimed, in essence, that Harmonix conspired to sell faulty drum pedals with Rock Band 1 to force people to buy Rock Band 2 kits. Yeah. Harmonix's response: "Harmonix and MTV Games are...
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'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' Can't Use Lips Microphone
Wouldn't it be great if we could free up the clutter in our living room and avoid having multiples of gear, equipment, cables and other loose details to trip over when enjoying our video games? The Lips cordless microphone, developed by Keiichi Yano at iNiS, unfortunately does not work with Rock Band and Guitar Hero: World Tour. The Lips mic...
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More Killers Songs Come to 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero'
The Killers are headed to both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour via the magical world of DLC as both Harmonix and Activision have confirmed. The 3 new tracks will be available on the same day as Day and Age, their latest album's November 25 is released. For World Tour users, in addition to "Human" and "Losing," two...
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X-Play's Gaming Update 11.11.08
While you (hopefully) had a wonderful Veteran's Day off from work and/or school, X-Play's Gaming Update was hard at work scouring the world for the latest and greatest in digital goodness. Here's the breakdown of the Update: Valve hammers home the point (again) that Left 4 Dead will not be for the PS3 BioWare drops some thoughts on a...
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Harmonix Founders Split $300 Million Bonus
Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, the founders of Harmonix, must be feeling super extra-awesome right about now because they've just received a $300 million bonus to split from MTV Games and Viacom. The duo, which founded Harmonix in 1995 while they were at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "received $150 million last quarter for...
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Harmonix Wants To Go "All-In" If They Make A 'Rock Band' Music Studio
Dan Teasdale, the lead designer of Rock Band 2, and his buddies at Harmonix are exploring the possibilities of creating an in-game music studio that features an "authentic experience." He believes that they have to go "all-in" if they are going to include a music studio in a future release and points to the limitations of...
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Foo Fighters Album Comes to 'Rock Band 2'
Our old buddy Sean over at Harmonix has made a forum post that will make some Rock Band and Foo Fighters fans megahappy. The next wave of downloadable songs is going to be the entirety of Foo's The Colour and the Shape album, all master tracks. It will first be available November 11 for the Xbox 360 and November 13 for the PlayStation 3. The...
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'Rock Band Track Pack Vol. 2' Detailed & Dated For Nov. 17
For those about the rock, we suggest you look into Harmonix and MTV Games' new Rock Band Track Pack Vol. 2 if you've got something against downloadable content (or have a console that doesn't support DLC). The pack will release on November 17th and feature 20 songs that were released as DLC for Rock Band and will retail for $29.99. The pack can...
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Report: Beatles Not Coming to 'Rock Band' As DLC
We all know that MTV and Harmonix have snagged exclusive rights to the legendary music of The Beatles for a new game, but it's unclear if the music will ever show up in Rock Band as downloadable content. Reuters is reporting, sadly, that the music will be exclusive to the new game and not appear in Rock Band or Rock Band 2. "None of the Fab...
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'Rock Band' DLC Gets Political With The Presidents of the United States
Everyone is jumping on the political bandwagon these days and Rock Band has some special election-themed DLC for you to enjoy next week with a few extras thrown in for good measure. As rumored, starting on Tuesday, November 4th (November 6th for the PS3) you'll be able to download the following three tracks from The Presidents of the United...
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Speculation: The Beatles Coming Exclusively To 'Rock Band'?
Hold onto your hats because this could be major news in the rhythm game world. Tomorrow at 10am EST, Apple Corps Ltd. (not iPhone Apple, but The Beatles catalogue Apple) and MTV will announce an "exclusive agreement to develop unprecedented global music project." While we have no hard evidence that this has anything to do with Rock...
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