Subscribe164MPH is the best of: Guitar Hero | Torrie Wilson | Salma Hayek | Trish Stratus | Eva Longoria | Amanda Beard | Stephanie McMahon | Angelina Jolie | WWE | Tila Tequila | Melina Perez | Candice Michelle | John Cena | WWE SmackDown | Kelly Kelly | Brooke Hogan | Ciara Ciara | UFC | Danica Patrick | Christy Hemme | and more... (What is 164mph?)
# 7 Blogger
G4 TV
G4 TV (www.g4tv.com) has great Rock Band news, photos, videos and more
Today
CMT Blogger Miffed That 'Rock Band' Players Hate Country -- Goes All Dixie Chicks
Really?!? This is her evidence of some Rock Band players being country haters? Either the people in the Rock Band forums are among the nicest Internet posters on Earth or Bonaguro doesn't know what true Internet hate is. I mean, seriously! This stuff is pretty tame. No death threats? No moth...
Tuesday, Nov 25
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 lea...
UK's National Videogame Archive Gets Sony, Harmonix Support
Sony Europe and Harmonix both have donated to UK's newly founded National Videogame Archive: an EyeToy prototype, and a prototype drum kit and guitar from Rock Band, respectively. The Archive is a collaboration between the National Media Museum and Nottingham Trent University.
Monday, Nov 24
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.
Thursday, Nov 20
Microsoft Announces First Set of 'Lips' DLC
If this trend keeps up, pretty soon we'll only be covering music game downloadable content announcement stories. In addition to the weekly releases from Harmonix for Rock Band and the frequent, but less certain releases from Activision for Guitar Hero World Tour, we're looking at even m...
Tuesday, Nov 18
Soren Johnson Talks About The Positive Aspects Of Used Game Sales
Soren Johnson (ex-Firaxis and current Maxis designer) at Designer Notes has a great article on "The Case For Used Games". Whenever the matter comes up in the gaming press, the slant of the article almost always sides with the publisher -- how used games cut into publisher profits, impact r...
Monday, Nov 17
G4TV » The Feed » 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' Can't Use 'Lips ...
CA - Nov 17, 2008 The Lips cordless microphone, developed by Keiichi Yano at iNiS, unfortunately does not work with Rock Band and Guitar Hero: World Tour. ...
'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 wi...
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.
Thursday, Oct 16
'Rock Band 2' Gets Release Date For PS3, Release Month For Wii/PS2
Those gamers on the Wii and PS2 will have to wait until December to get in on Rock Band 2 with Harmonix and MTV Games planning to release standalone instruments and bundles for the Wii and the PlayStation 2 game. The PlayStation 3 instruments are the same as the PS2 peripherals.
Thursday, Oct 9
'Rock Band' TV Show Details
Be in the audience as everyday people, who normally moonlight as rock stars at home just like the rest of us, face off against one another in a battle of ROCK! The show harnesses the power of the Rock Band video game, the hit sensation that has taken casual gamers by storm and challenges the Am...
Thursday, Sep 18
Full-Size Music Game Guitar
Yesterday we brought you a review of the ION Drum Rocker, the Cadillac of fake musical instruments. Today we have word that the Starpex full-size music game guitars are on sale. The StarPex is a wooden, full-weight guitar controller for Rock Band and Guitar Hero games on the PlayStation 2 a...
Wednesday, Sep 17
Exclusive: ION Rocker Drum Review
When it came out last year, Rock Band's drumming game provided the only truly new experience with the title. We’d all played Guitar Hero and various Karaoke games before, but the drums were something else. But, after our initial fascination with playing drums in Rock Band died down, we fo...
Friday, Sep 5
'Rock Revolution' Preview
So what makes this title stand out among the current favorites like Rock Band and Guitar Hero? Konami said that Rock Revolution delivers "the ultimate drumming experience" as it puts "the heart of the band" right in front of the stage. The title features a variety of rock titles, ranging fr...
'All That Remains' Comes To 'Rock Band'
It's that time again: Time to reveal next week's Rock Band downloadable content. Ready? Melodic death metal band All that Remains will honor the game world with three downloadable tracks. They are as follows: This CallingChironTwo Weeks
Thursday, Sep 4
'Guitar Hero: World Tour' PAX Hands On Impressions
At PAX 2008, one of the more prominent booths belonged to Guitar Hero: World Tour. With Rock Band revolutionizing the music game genre last year by including drums and singing in their game, it was clear that Activision’s Guitar Hero franchise needed to make up ground. After playing the gam...
Thursday, Aug 7
Warners Blames Music Games For Loss
Warner Music is doing poorly financially; the company reported that their losses were $9 million in the three months ending in June. No surprise--it's just too easy to get music for free these days--but what is surprising is one of the causes Warner cited. They say music games like Rock Ban...
Tuesday, Aug 5
Game Critics: 'Fallout 3' Wins E3
DICE/Electronic Arts for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 36)Best Console Game Rock Band 2 Ion “Drum Rocker” Set EA Redwood Shores/EA for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)Best Role Playing Game Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3)Best Online Multiplayer
Wednesday, Jul 30
Rock Band Live Tour This Fall
All Rock Band Live tour acts will be featured in a forthcoming downloadable content pack for the game, while Panic At The Disco will be featured on the Rock Band 2 game disc coming out this September. The Rock Band Live tour will visit the following locations:
Friday, Jul 18
Hands-On: 'Rock Revolution'
First, the good: The Revolution drum heads are “bouncier” than Rock Band’s kit, giving you nice rebound and feel. Overall, it feels more like real drums than Rock Band’s traps. (We don’t know about the new Rock Band 2 drums or the Guitar Hero World Tour: Haven’t had a chance to play them yet.) Ea...
Thursday, Jul 17
Hands-On: 'Rock Band 2'
We have a hands-on of the new Harmonix/MTV rock rhythm game Rock Band 2, but, since this game is so big, we're going to look at it from two points-of-view, mine, and Feed Meister Steve Johnson, because we both got to play the game, separately and together. Steve: Mike:
Rock Band Party: THE WHO!!!
Seriously, this was the sound of Harmonix and MTV unzipping and whipping it out, almost challenging Guitar Hero to say anything. It was the roar of a little company made big and the little came that could, and it was deafening, it was liberating, and it was glorious.
Monday, Jul 14
'Rock Band 2' Official Track List Revealed
69. The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” 1980’s 70. The Grateful Dead “Alabama Getaway” 1980’s 71. The Guess Who “American Woman” 1970’s 72. The Muffs “Kids in America” 1990’s 73. The Offspring “Come Out & Play (Keep ‘em Separated)” 1990’s 74. The Replacements “Alex Chilton” 1980’s
'Rock Band 2' Track List Released
By now, you all know that Rock Band 2 is coming to the world in September, which means that the band experience you've been loving for the past year is about to get more awesome. Today, we have some idea of just how awesome, as the official track list has been announced, and it includes (finally...
Microsoft Press Conference Live Blog!
11:05: We take a look at some PowerPoint slides that prove Microsoft is awesome. Microsoft declares they will win the console war. They say they will sell more consoles this generation than the PlayStation 3.Consumers have spent more than a billion dollars on Xbox since 2005. That's billion...
Friday, Jul 11
Tons of New 'Rock Band 2' Info Leaks!
A crazy amount of Rock Band 2 info leaked today in the form of scans from Game Informer magazine, including the inside word on the new, shiny, premium drum set pictured above. The ION will not only play Rock Band, but also function as electronic drums, separate from the game. The "regular" Roc...
Wednesday, Jul 9
'Rock Band 2' Official Tracks, Details Announced
The official details on Harmonix/MTV's Rock Band 2 have dropped on to the web, folks and it's killer. Pardon our fanboy-ness, but we're crazy psyched: We're talking new tracks, wireless, improved instruments and other enhancements. Plus, backwards compatibility, so all your Rock Band...
Saturday, Jul 5
Powerglove – Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man Review
Games and metal have collided, friends, and no, I am not talking about Guitar Hero XXI or a portalable version of Rock Band (though that could be cool in a drunken karaoke kind of way). But as G4 broke to you back in March, Powerglove scored the biggest coup that a band who plays only video game t...
Monday, Jun 30
'Rock Band 2' Announced
As for new stuff, Activision is playing it close to the vest, saying only that "Major new and dynamic online modes that will connect the entire Rock Band community in more ways than ever before both locally and globally" and "More variety of instrument choices than ever before with new and...
Thursday, Jun 19
New Weezer Tracks Head To 'Rock Band'
Last week, we reported that classic Pixies album Doolittle is coming to Rock Band; but it turns out it won't be alone! Weezer is along for the ride, with three master-tracks on the way next week. The Weezer pack will contain: “Dreamin’”“The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”“Troublemaker”
Monday, Jun 2
'Rock Band' Going to Japan
Rock Band is going to be heading to Japan with its own localized version. Harmonix is teaming up with Q Entertainment to help develop the game for Japan. No word on a release date, but Harmonix and MTV Games have their work cut out for them as Japan is the birthplace of the music game genre.
Tuesday, May 27
Motley Crue's Rock Band Sales A-Rockin'
In six months, the number of songs downloaded to Rock Band has surpassed 10 million tracks, according to MTV Networks, while song downloads from Guitar Hero passed 15 million, according to Activision. With more than 100 songs available for download via the Rock Band platform, that's an a...
Friday, May 16
Ton of Euro-Tracks Come To 'Rock Band'
Release date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 (Xbox LIVE® Marketplace) Thursday, May 22, 2008(PLAYSTATION®Store) Tracks: Hier Kommt Alex (Die Toten Hosen) New Wave" (Pleymo) Hysteria" (Muse) Price: $1.99 per track (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360)
'GTA IV' Tops LIVE Charts
According to Microsoft, Grand Theft Auto IV was the most played game on Xbox Live last week, beating out Call of Duty IV and Halo 3 for the honor. Xbox 360 Top Live Titles 1 GTA IV 2 Call of Duty 4 3 Halo 3 4 Guitar Hero III 5 Gears of War 6 Rock Band 7 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 8 GRID Demo
Thursday, May 8
'Rock Band' Drops New Wave Tracks
New Wave time, kids: Rock Band has three tracks for ya, all new wave-tastic: The Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (Xbox LIVE® Marketplace)Thursday, May 15, 2008 (PLAYSTATION®Store) The Price: $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for the 3-pack or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360...
Tuesday, May 6
'Rock Band' Brings Savings, Rock
MTV Games and Harmonix have teamed up with McDonald’s to drop the price on select Rock Band tracks in North America, so save your money and rock out with bargain rock, baby. UPDATE: Everyone gets to rock: The bargains are for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Thursday, Mar 20
Opinion: Epic Fail: Rock Band Instruments
We all love the guitar, drum and microphone peripherals that came with Rock Band, but the slew of secondary instruments that the makers of the game have released have been a lot less satisfying. Okay, the Rock Band Key-Tar was pretty cool, but did we really need a Rock Band stand-up bass?