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Friday, Jan 29
Rock Band Weekly: Chesney, Gentry, Flatts, Evans, Adkins & Willie Nelson
Next week's Rock Band Weekly update puts country stars on the road again, yup, they just can't wait to get on the road again. So, this is the part where I confess that I know little to nothing about the artists featured in the next update. Honestly, the closest I get to country is driving in my fri...
Thursday, Jan 28
The Beatles: Rock Band raises $217,780 for charity (so far)
When you guys aren't setting franchise records downloading a track for The Beatles: Rock Band, you're helping to save lives .... well, actually, we guess you were kinda doing them both at the same time. My, what wonderful multitaskers you all are!
Monday, Jan 25
Rhythm game devs: genre hasn't peaked, user-generated content is key
In the latest issue of Edge Magazine, Harmonix head Alex Rigopulos and Neversoft project director Brian Bright both speak out regarding the current state of rhythm-music gaming. As you might imagine, neither developer thinks that the genre is flatlining. In fact, Rigopulos even believ...
Friday, Jan 22
Rock Band Free launches on iPhone
No, EA didn't release a single-band game following the career of the band behind "All Right Now" -- that would be Free: Rock Band. Rock Band Free is actually a one-song demo of the iPhone version of Rock Band. If you'd like to try out the touch-controlled version of the multi-instrumental rhy...
Thursday, Jan 21
Green Day: Rock Band won't be the only Rock Band in 2010
Of course, we could be wrong about this whole "Rock Band 3" nonsense. Perhaps Harmonix will make our dreams come true with their real secret project: Jonas Brothers: Rock Band.Green Day: Rock Band won't be the only Rock Band in 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:00:00...
DJ Max Fever heats up PSN today
DJ Max Fever is being re-released on PSP today via the PlayStation Network. The Korean music game has been a hit amongst hardcore rhythm enthusiasts, but it's been a rather difficult game to find outside of import shops and specialty retailers. The game's re-release on the PlayStation Sto...
Tuesday, Jan 19
Opinion: Rock Band Network open beta begins tonight [update]
Of course, we won't be able to download the songs until the platform officially goes live -- which Harmonix recently informed Destructoid wouldn't be until "we accrue a good base of content, though we're already really excited by what we have in the pipeline." If you were curious about wha...
Monday, Jan 18
The Beatles: Rock Band does 1.7M as music games continue slide
Sales of the latest Rock Band game seem to be fueled less by Beatlemania and more by Beatlemildinterest. According to the L.A. Times, the NPD estimates that The Beatles: Rock Band moved 357,000 units in December, for a total of 1.18 million in the U.S. Worldwide, the game has sold 1.7 million, the s...
Monday, Jan 11
EA drops fiscal year outlook
EA reduced its net revenue for Q3 from $1.247 billion to $1.227 billion, and its fiscal 2010 expectations to between $3.6 billion and $3.675 billion, down from a range of $3.6 billion to $3.9 billion. The publisher attributed these losses to "weakness for EA and the overall packaged goods sector...
Wednesday, Jan 6
GM-1 connects real drums to Guitar Hero, Rock Band
As Ars Technica points out in a recent hands-on with the product, "It's an interesting idea, but you need to be willing to put some serious time and money into the project to get worthwhile results." Aside from owning a set of real drums, you'll need the "fake" ones, too -- the GM-1 sensors sen...
Monday, Jan 4
The Beatles: Rock Band limited edition for Xbox just $200 [update]
If you want wireless instruments and the game, but don't care about the Beatles-esque look of the guitar and drums, you can get the Special Value Edition for $139.99 on either Xbox or PS3 -- or, for wireless drums, a copy of the Rock Band 2 special edition bundled with a copy of Beatles from EA'...
Friday, Jan 1
Best of the Rest: James' Picks of 2009
Twenty-something years ago we were both anxiously awaiting the same Christmas Morning when we would unwrap our Nintendos, and shortly thereafter our gaming lives split two very different ways. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the first and only game she has played with me for more than, um, "fi...
Wednesday, Dec 30
Rock Band Weekly: Paul McCartney, Blink-182, Psychedelic Furs, Ramones
Paul McCartney, in a non-Beatles outing, rings in the new year for next week's Rock Band Weekly update. The 67-year-old rocker (good on him!) will have the company of a Blink-182 pack, along with individual tracks from The Psychedelic Furs and The Ramones. Ringo might be in there too, but no...
Friday, Dec 18
Joystiq Podcast 121 - Nomenclature edition
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Sunday, Dec 13
Green Day: Rock Band trailer unveiled, songs will be exportable
The MTV Games press release that landed in our inbox shortly after the trailer aired contained one particularly interesting piece of news -- unlike The Beatles: Rock Band, all of the tracks in Green Day's outing will be exportable to the core Rock Band games. In addition, all the Green Day D...
Sunday, Sep 6
Opinion: PAX 2009: JoCo adapts 'The Future Soon' at Rock Band Network panel
We've heard about the Rock Band Network's near-boundless technical capabilities. We've seen the technology in action at Harmonix HQ. What we haven't seen is a popular musical artist adapting one of his songs through Reaper, Ember and the Rock Band Network peer-review process for our enj...
Saturday, Sep 5
Review: The Beatles: Rock Band
In a real sense, debating the "fun" of The Beatles: Rock Band is a worthless exercise. As with other Rock Band games, how much fun you're having is directly proportionate to how much you enjoy the songs, and though you're absolutely entitled not to like The Beatles, it's pretty clear at this...
Monday, Aug 31
MTV spent big for The Beatles, slowly backing away from peripheral business
MTV Games is seemingly taking even more steps away from producing and distributing peripherals. Paul DeGooyer, senior vice president at the company, explains that its "core competency is media" -- he'd rather let Activision "take on the burden of getting those super-tight margin inst...
Thursday, Aug 27
Opinion: Rock Band Network Store coming to PS3, Wii players out of luck
Essentially, PS3 owners will have access to the "greatest hits" of the Rock Band Network, while members of the Xbox 360 Creator's Club will be able to play and review every song that passes through the servers. Wii owners, on the other hand, are completely out of luck. "We would love to get it r...
Monday, Aug 10
More on Guitar Hero 5 song import, DLC support (Band Hero will do it, too)
Yes, Guitar Hero 5 is getting all modern-like and letting those who buy it -- and own other GH games -- access all those songs they already bought (on disc or in DLC form) without firing up another title. GH5 and the upcoming Band Hero will work with songs from the Guitar Hero World Tour and Guit...
Wednesday, Jun 10
Opinion: Hands-on: Lego Rock Band
It's tempting to just take a review of Rock Band 2 and stick it under here and label it Lego Rock Band, because that's pretty much what it is, albeit with a few family-friendly tweaks. They're mostly aesthetic, and Harmonix is working with Lego, who has approval over all of the songs in the gam...
Wednesday, Mar 25
Joystiq Review: Rhythm Heaven
These days, it's impossible to talk about rhythm games without bringing up Guitar Hero and/or Rock Band. Nintendo's Rhythm Heaven, to use the nomenclature, could be described as Soccer Ball Bounce Hero, Love Potion Mixing Hero, Race Car Photography Hero, Lizard Mating Dance Hero (that...
Thursday, Dec 4
Unused RB2 drum port to unlock hidden feature
The guide continues, teasing that Harmonix "has not revealed the functionality for this input," which will "be announced at a later date, along with further details for double-kick functionality." So ... the port is for a second kick pedal, after all? Along with a ... what? Perhaps Harmonix is v...
Tuesday, Oct 28
Metareview: Guitar Hero: World Tour
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm This week marked the debut of a second contender in the full-band-simulator genre. It's hard to find a review for Guitar Hero: World Tour that utters Rock Band less than a half dozen times. Compar...
Wednesday, Sep 17
Nega-review: Rock Band 2
At its worst, Rock Band 2 feels like a massive expansion pack." (3) "If your initial exposure to [Rock Band 2] was to walk into the room when your friends were already playing it, you'd probably think there was nothing different from the first Rock Band." (9) "If you're playing one of the songs...
Tuesday, Mar 25
Opinion: Today in Joystiq: March 25, 2008
Call of Duty 4 DLC in the works for PC Guitar Hero: Aerosmith adds Mott the Hoople, The Kinks, Joan Jett Europe gets the shard with Warhawk 'Broken Mirror' expansion in April Darwinia rated by ESRB for Xbox 360 Darwinia+ confirmed for Xbox Live this Fall
Wednesday, Feb 27
Some Rock Band DLC titles get patched
A teeny-tiny Rock Band patch will be available this week which only affects a few DLC songs. Harmonix is apparently doing some early spring cleaning as it fixes some genre tags for songs and one vocal bug. The songs can simply be redownloaded today for Xbox 360 and Thursday for PS3 to receive t...
Wednesday, Jan 9
Rock Band drum prototype adds sturdiness, cymbals
We love channeling our inner Keith Moon with the Rock Band drum set, but we do have some quibbles. Namely: When we break out with some tasty, tasty hi-hat work it just feels a little inauthentic. Sure, we could try applying some Rock Jam, but it's just not the same. You can understand then why our...
Friday, Jul 6
Today in Joystiq: July 6, 2007
Filed under: Nintendo DS, E3 A 2004 prototype of the Nintendo DS from E3 2004 (via Tengaport). The little dual-screen has come a long way, hasn't it? Check out the highlights for today: Memo shows $20 gap in Xbox and PS3 Rock Band guitar Rumor: Sakaguchi working on Xbox 360 MMO
Tuesday, Jun 19
Rock Band guitar shown in latest GameStop newsletter
We knew the Rock Band guitar was going to be based on the Fender Stratocaster and now, thanks to a GameStop newsletter, we get the clear internet-ready picture of what it'll actually look like. The ten button controller (you read that right, check out another pic after the break) has five fr...
