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Rock Band: A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll?
… I say just wait until Dec 16. That’s when Rock Band will add five country songs to its downloadable content for PlayStation3 and XBOX 360. … this bundle’s going to have Bentley, plus Brad Paisley, Brooks & Dunn, Miranda Lambert and the Dixie Chicks. All pretty hard-rocking country typ...
Analyst Suggests Consumers “Bored” with Rock Games
During a review of Black Friday sales from Kotaku, we get a glimpse of what people were buying on the biggest shopping day of the year. According to Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian, all versions of both series of Guitar Hero and Rock Band sold less than expected. His theory on...
Monday, Dec 1
Peak Starpex Guitar Controller Review
It’s difficult to believe that three years ago today we were playing Guitar Hero on our PlayStation 2 with its squeaky 3/4 sized plastic Gibson SG controller. Within a short time the franchise evolved into a full band experience with Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour. With each new game ca...
Wednesday, Nov 26
Rock Band DLC Week of 12/2: Naked Brothers European Style
So… interesting week on the Rock Band DLC front. We’re getting another batch of European songs, ranging from Italian rock/pop (Finley’s “Tutto E’ Possibile”) to Finnish metal (Children of Bodom’s “Are You Dead Yet”). Read the rest of Rock Band DLC Week of 12/2: Naked Brothers European Sty...
Saturday, Nov 22
Ready to put your money where your mouth is rockgamers?
This could be a dream come true for you Scorehero types who live and breathe shredding perfection in Guitar Hero and Rock Band. A new website now allows you to compete against other players for real cash. Bringit.com is now beta launched and gives players on all platforms the opportun...
Friday, Nov 21
Rock Band DLC - week of 11/25 - Killers, Soundgarden & more!
© Chicago Horde for RockGamer.com, 2008. Ready for Thanksgiving? Along with the already confirmed Killers pack, the folks at Harmonix will give you plenty more to be thankful for next week! Get ready for 9 brand new Rock Band master tracks to add to your song library from venerable rocker...
Tuesday, Nov 18
Wired Opens NYC Store 11/21, Q&A With Rock Band CEO
Wired magazine is setting up a new shop here in New York City later this week and if you’re in the area, you may want to attend. Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos will be joining Wired’s Chris Kohler at 7pm for an hour of Games: The Future of Music, a talk about the rise of music games, [...]
Monday, Nov 17
Lips Release Tomorrow - No Go on Mic Compatibility
© Jen for RockGamer.com, 2008. Well folks, my dream has died. I was so excited at the prospect of the “Lips” wireless mic option for Rock Band and Guitar Hero - but now, alas, we’ll have to wait and see if Logitech’s is any good in December. Word is out that the two wireless microphones that wi...
Monday, Nov 3
RockGamer Review: AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band Track Pack
Most people were a little confused when the AC/DC announcement came, making the incorrect (or correct?) assumption that this was just additional DLC for Rock Band 2. When specified that the entire track pack was a standalone game, and could be purchased only at Walmart (in the form of a di...
Why Guitar Hero and Activision Lost the Beatles War to MTV and Rock Band
Earlier in the year, there were rumors that both companies were in talks to nab the Fab Four’s great works. Sony/ATV chairman and CEO Marty Bandier mentioned in March that they were interesed in looking into Guitar Hero. Apparently, it was Activision’s deal to lose. Speaking of his t...
Tuesday, Sep 30
Red Hot “Crippled” Peppers DLC? (Rant)
No, I take that back. I feel ANGRY (hence my nickname). I love what Harmonix has brought us in the original Guitar Hero franchise and now Rock Band. LOVE IT. We have weekly parties, and we (the wife and I) have turned on probably close to one hundred new players to this phenomenon. So it isn’t like I’...
Rock Band to Live Forever
Now, aside from conjuring up images of a dystopian society where used Rock Band discs have replaced pennies as a form of currency, this also brings up questions of what will happen when Rock Band 3 arrives, or when it’s time to take that step forward into the next generation of consoles. Will...
AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack
A report from The New York Times has confirmed MTV’s deal with AC/DC to release a Rock Band expansion disc featuring eighteen of the band’s tracks featured on the “AC/DC Live at Donnington” DVD. The game will be made available exclusively through Wal-Mart as part of their marketing blitz f...
Wednesday, Sep 24
Guitar Hero World Tour; Hands on Preview at Neversoft
The GAME Lastly, we did see evidence of the drums being velocity sensitive and in Guitar Hero World Tour, you could see bonus points based on the strength of your pad strike. As promised, the drumkits will be compatible with the Rock Band game and vice versa.
Friday, Sep 19
Rock Band DLC Week of 9/23; Rush (finally!), Cult, Stone Roses
© 2008 Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Harmonix, Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and all related titles and logos are trademarks of Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., an MTV Networks company. Rock Band and Rock Band 2 developed by Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. MTV: Music Television, MTV Ga...
Bands Find More Money in Music Games than Traditional Album Sales
From the strong reported sales of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, to the frenzied pace of downloads for additional music albums and downloadable content in Guitar Hero III and Rock Band, musicians today are finding that rhythm games are a new way to get their music out to fans outside the tra...
Tuesday, Sep 16
Reminder: Q&A Live Tuesday with Cena; Rock Band, GH, Mods, More
The award-winning Rock Band 2 standalone made its debut on the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft on Sunday, September 14, 2008 with an exclusive launch window in North America. Rock Band 2 standalone wireless drums and guitars will also arrive at retail late...
Monday, Sep 15
Rock Band 2: 20 Free Tracks Coming Soon; Jukebox Feature Not
In addition to the 84 new songs on the Rock Band 2 disc, fans can expect another little gift coming from Harmonix soon: 20 FREE downloadable songs! These tunes had been announced (but not itemized) a while back, and recently re-confirmed on the Rock Band Forums, just in case you were stil...
Wanna be a Rock Band 2 Reality TV Star?
Last week an ad ran in Craigslist looking for folks in the Los Angeles area who want to be a part of a new MTV reality show: Rock Band 2 the show!. MTV’s official show for Rock Band 2! The creator of Rock Star and The Apprentice, Mark Burnett and MTV bring you the first show based on the new game R...
Friday, Sep 12
Rock Band DLC for 9/16: Megadeth Album, Tour 4-Pack
All tracks in the Rock Band Tour Pack are $.99 (80 Microsoft Points) or $3.99 (320 Microsoft Points) for a limited time (October 14 on Xbox and October 16 on PS3) when they return to $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) per track or $6.99 (560 Microsoft Points) for the full pack.
Wednesday, Sep 10
Rock Band 2 Preorders: Hurry, You Still Have Time!
For those of you living under a rock, let me remind you that Rock Band 2 SHIPS THIS WEEKEND on the Xbox 360!!! (Sunday 9/14 to be exact). But guess what? You still have time to pre-order the goods and have them delivered to your door on release date. And just to make things a bit [...]
Rock Band 2 and Economics 101 (Exporting Songs From RB1)
The patch is now live for Xbox owners of Rock Band that will allow you to start the process of exporting songs from Rock Band disc one, to Rock Band 2. For a small fee ($4.99) you can transfer almost all of the songs that came with the original disc onto your xbox hard drive right now. [...]
Tuesday, Sep 2
Harmonix Helps with Smeeguel’s Rock Band Birthday Celebration Weekend
It’s Tuesday, and I think things are finally getting back to normal here at RockGamer’s NYC headquarters. This weekend was our favorite code monkey, Smeeguel’s big Three-Oh Birthday and it was a Rock Band filled extravaganza thanks to Harmonix.
Friday, Aug 29
Difficulty Ratings For Rock Band 2 Tracks
With just over 2 weeks until Rock Band 2 ships for the Xbox 360, are ya wondering which songs will be the hardest on drums? Easiest on vocals? Wonder no more, as the fine folks at IGN (with the help of Harmonix) have compiled difficulty listings for each song, for individual instruments an...
Rock Band Full Albums Revealed (Foo Fighters, RHCP, more)
After the technical difficulties that plagued the release of “Moving Pictures” as this week’s set of DLC, Harmonix and Entertainment Weekly have opted to soothe the burn by revealing five more full album releases before the end of 2008, as well as a special compilation pack.
Sunday, Aug 17
Six New Albums Coming to Rock Band
G4 has an exclusive story with breaking Rock Band news! According to their story, they’ve spoken with PR coordinator John Drake. Certainly we already knew that Harmonix’s extensive DLC catalog would be at 500 by the end of the year, but we are excited to hear that we’ll have a new album comi...
Tuesday, Aug 12
Opinion: Gold Stars for “Seven” in Rock Band 2
And, if that’s not enough, here’s the even better news: since you can import your songs from the original Rock Band game into the new game and play all songs in the same place, the glitch will be automatically corrected for these songs in Rock Band 2!! That’s right - any buggy song from the di...
Monday, Aug 11
Rock Band 2 Achievements/Trophies
With just about a month to go before Rock Band 2 hits store shelves (and my tiny living room), word is starting to hit the streets on some of the more specific details about the game. IGN and others have reported the list of Achievements (360) and Trophies (PS) you can earn for your special [...]
Wednesday, Aug 6
Rock Band 2 For Nintendo Wii - Fully Featured?
We’ve heard the complaints regarding no DLC, no online play and no character creation/customization. As a current owner of all four of the above consoles, I’d have to agree that those complaints are valid, at least in regard to Rock Band 1. However, in an article published on Wired.com, a...
Tuesday, Aug 5
Activision Withholds “Good” DLC until World Tour Release
The Interscope Track Pack, originally offered to purchasers of the Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock soundtrack CD, will be available on August 7 for download on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®Store for the PL...
Wednesday, Jul 30
Panic At The Disco and Dashboard Confessional to Co-Headline the First Ever ROCK BAND LIVE TOUR This Fall
Panic At The Disco will be featured on the Rock Band 2 game disc coming out this September. In addition, all Rock Band Live tour acts will be featured in a forthcoming downloadable content pack for the game. Check out the Rock Band Live website for a list of dates and cities.
Thursday, Jul 24
RockGamer Hands On: Rock Band 2
Rock on. Another hum drum, hump-day Wednesday night last night? Not in this city!! Harmonix and MTV again sponsored a Rock Fest at Angels and Kings here in Manhattan and lo and behold, they brought with them a copy of Rock Band 2 and prototype Rock Band 2 instruments for us to play with! C...
Wednesday, Jul 23
Music Game Floodwaters Have Broken Through the Dam
Over eight months ago when Mike and I first had the idea to start a website based on news, rumors, updates and more about music/rhythm games, I had just been introduced to newly released Rock Band and Guitar Hero III games. I assumed there must have been a GH and a GH II, but [...]
Music Games Floodwaters Have Broken Through the Dam
We want to bring you the most relevant information so you don’t end up having to weed through seventeen articles you don’t necessarily care about, like you have to at other video game sites with a broader focus. We’re hoping you’ll chime in here and tell us your thoughts on what you’d like t...
Friday, Jul 18
Rock Band DLC 7/22: More NIN, Shinedown
Next week’s Rock Band downloadable content (DLC) has been announced and it’s more Nine Inch Nails, along with some Florida rock from Shinedown. Same price, same days of the week, same consistent Rock Band goodness. Thursday, July 25, 2008 (PLAYSTATION®Store)
Tuesday, Jul 15
Both Guitar Hero: World Tour; Guitar Hero III Get Metallica Tunes
Santa Monica, CA – July 15, 2007 – Activision Publishing (Nasdaq: ATVI) today revealed that Metallica’s highly-anticipated full studio album, “Death Magnetic,” will be available simultaneously in record stores and as downloadable content for the world’s best-selling rhythm-bas...
Monday, Jul 14
E3 2008: Rock Band 2 Features Announced
Harmonix, MTV Games and Electronic Arts Set to Rock the World Again With Rock Band(TM)2 Rock Band is the first music game to Support Open Platform By Officially Licensing Third Party Rock Band 2 Instruments: Mad Catz Premier Guitar Controllers, Cymbal Expansion Pack and Professional I...
Rock Band 2 Details on New Features
Old vs. New Instruments - If you’re not made of money, or are happy with your current instrument peripherals from the original Rock Band, fear not, they will all still work with the new Rock Band 2. You can just buy the game itself and plan to continue your rockfest. IF, however, you are it...
Dance Dance Revolution Makers File Suit Against Harmonix
This past Friday, Bloomberg.com reported that video game publisher Konami has filed suit against Harmonix/MTV/Viacom over claims of Rock Band violating patents they filed back in 2002-2003. Konami is reportedly seeking cash compensation, in addition to trying to prevent Harmonix fr...
Guitar Hero: On Tour Review
Gameplay Guitar Hero: On Tour tries valiantly to be a Guitar Hero game. The Guitar Grip is as close as you’ll come to playing Guitar Hero on a DS. The multiplayer guitar duels (similar to the boss battles in Guitar Hero III) have innovative attacks and can be pretty addictive.
Wednesday, Jul 9
Rumor Mill: Rock Band 2 Set List(s)?
As speculation continues to be fast & furious, we here at RockGamer are jumping on the bandwagon, and bringing you more rumored information on Rock Band 2’s set list. Please keep in mind that all of this is rumor, and NOT to be taken as fact for now.
Tuesday, Jul 8
Rock Band 2 Rumor Mill: Rock Band 1 Disc Songs As Free DLC?
Update just before posting: According to IGN Xbox Team Editor-in-Chief Hilary Goldstein, “Nate goofed in writing that. He hopes that is allowed. Nothing about this has been announced and Nate’s never even seen RB2. Sorry, guys.” Honest mistake … or covering tracks? We’ll know next week.
Tuesday, Jul 1
Update - The Who Is Official For Rock Band!!!
In an update to our story yesterday, Harmonix has issued a formal press release confirming 12 DLC tracks from The Who for the week of July 15th!!! After months of uncertainty, this announcement is sure to make a large amount of Rock Band users quite happy indeed.
Saturday, Jun 28
Opinion: Official Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Launch Party Coverage
Activision wants the world to know that they're nowhere near ready to relinquish the rhythm game crown to MTV/Harmonix and their rookie sensation Rock Band. The publisher, along with developer Neversoft and perennial rock gods Aerosmith, took over Times Square Friday afternoon (two...
Thursday, Jun 26
Event Review: Monthly MTV/Harmonix DLC Party in NYC
John Drake aka HMXJohnD (pictured on the right) and SuChin Pak from MTV were in attendance, I joined an all-Spanish band with my new friends Cesar, Daniel and Jorge (and yes, we are all begging for Spanish Rock Band) and we rocked out until it was time for John D. to wrap things up and head home t...
Harmonix Stands by its Products; Extends Warranty Exceptions
The Harmonix Community Crew sent us wind of the following good news. Starting June 30th, rockers with broken peripherals will have though October 1 to return their gear past 60 days of their purchase and without a receipt. Rock on!
Saturday, Jun 21
Reminder - New Nintendo Releases on 6/22
Nintendo Wii owners, here is your reminder that this coming Sunday, 6/22, will see the release of Rock Band. As has been noted before, the Wii version is a basic port of the previously released PS2 offering, with the addition of 5 of the DLC tracks currently available to 360 & PS3 owners.
Friday, Jun 13
Rock Band DLC week of 6/17, A7x, Offspring, Crooked X
Release date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 (Xbox LIVE® Marketplace) Thursday, June 19, 2008 (PLAYSTATION®Store) Crooked X’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Dream” will be $0.99 (80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) Locations: Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PLAYSTATION®Network
Friday, Jun 6
Opinion: RockGamer.com Welcomes CenaChainGang54
His career as an Internet reviewer began with a comparison of two Rock Band kick pedal replacements: the Omega Pedal and the Destroyer. With so many choices on the market, hundreds of followers rely on his opinion before making a buying decision. Welcome Cena - RockGamer is lucky to have such a talented Internet superstar joining our group! Renowned game peripheral reviewer CenaChainGang54 is bringing his game product expertise, thorough review skills, and honest tell-it-like-it-is style to RockGamer.com. Cena (aka David McClam) has been widely followed on the official Rock Band forums since he started reviewing products several months ago. His career as an Internet reviewer began with a comparison of two Rock Band [...]
Thursday, May 22
Rock Band’s UK Commercial vs. Guitar Hero WT Game Trailer
The folks across the pond have been waiting ever so patien.. well, maybe not so patiently, but waiting nonetheless for their chance at channeling their inner Rock Gods. With the release of Rock Band (Xbox only) in the UK this week, let the advertising blitz begin. We also got the announcement yesterday for Guitar [...]
Friday, May 16
Rock Band DLC 5/20/08 European Tracks
Once again proving true to their word of releasing new songs every week, Rock Band announces this week’s downloadable goodies. From our pal HMXSean on the RB forums: Hey everybody, its that time again. Next week for DLC we have the tracks from the European release of Rock Band. All tracks are...
Saturday, May 10
This Weekend Only: It’s a Rockin’ Bonnaroo Play & Win!
From the Xbox folks, a chance to win a trip to trippy Bonnaroo if you play Rock Band online before the end of this weekend. Rock Your Way to Bonnaroo You can also access the free Rock Band Bonnaroo Play & Win Registration Gamer Picture via the banner ads running on the Xbox LIVE dashboard. Sw...
Monday, May 5
Rock Band Supplement Discs for PS2/Wii
Announced over at the Official Rock Band forums today, PS2 and future Wii Rock Band owners who, sadly, do not have access to the weekly DLC content, can take a little solace in knowing that this July 15th, EA/MTV/Harmonix will be releasing “The Rock Band Track Pack - Volume 1″ game discs! Th...
Wednesday, Apr 30
Review: Rock Band’s Motley Crue vs. Guitar Hero’s Def Leppard
As many of you know, I started playing music games less than 6 months ago. I was introduced to Rock Band and Guitar Hero III on the same day, and went out and bought both of them plus Guitar Hero II all in one fell swoop because I couldn’t decide on a favorite at the time. Since November, it’s been...
Friday, Mar 21
Patch: Rock Band Has Made This a Good Friday
Two good things to celebrate today: New DLC and the new Rock Band Music Store! Rockgamer reported yesterday that Rock Band had announced a new patch that would be coming available - and its available today. So go ahead and fire up your machine so Rock Band can prompt you to download the patch t...
Thursday, Mar 20
Opinion: Rockband Game Update: From the forums.
Hi! I’m Dan T (HMXspraynwipe), and I’m a senior designer here at Harmonix. I’m glad to announce that the Rock Band team has finalized a software update for Rock Band on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 that not only fixes some of the common issues we’ve been reading about on rockband.com, but als...
Friday, Feb 29
RockGamer.com Review: Mega Pedal for Rock Band drum pedal
For those of you who have already had the problem of your Rock Band drum pedal snapping in half right in the middle of your best shot at Gold Starring “Run to the Hills”, you know how frustrating it is that the pedal is made of plastic and somewhat poorly designed. We recently had the [...]