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Apr 8, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Euro Rock Band Instrument Pack: no game included VG247: According to IGN, the European Rock Band Instrument Pack will not include an actual copy of the game.

"Unlike the US, which received a Special Edition that includes the game, a Fender Strat guitar, the drum kit and a mic, all for $169 ¿ Europe will only get an Instrument Edition priced £129.99 / 169 Euros, including the three peripherals but not the game ¿ which, bought separately, will set you back £49.99 / 69.99 Euros." The article says. "So...
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Apr 4, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Rumour: Euro Rock Band 360 in May, no PS3/PS2 until autumn Someone over at Neogaf "got a memo" saying that Harmonix's Rock Band has finally got a release date and price for Europe.

Unfortunately for all you PS3 and PS2 owners, it seems that 360 gamers will get it on May 22, while you'll all have to wait until autumn.

The game was rumoured last week for a May release.

While details surrounding the game's European release have been locked up tighter than a nun's pants, we have been told by a 'second' highly reliable source that the announcement would be "big news": if that platform split's true, we can see why.

Details are as follows...
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Apr 1, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Are Rock Band Drums like Real World Drums? Was Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopoulos spot on when he said that Rock Band would "training an army of a million drummers"? Maybe. It, at the very least, helped train one, Attack of the Show's Kevin Periera. He recently applied his 98% expert-level skills on Coheed and Cambria's "Welcome Home" to some real life Coheed and Cambria.
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Mar 18, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Play.com Live: Exclusive EU only Rock Band tracks revealed Over at the EA Rock Band booth at Play.com Live, EA (or Microsoft) staff had a full PAL version track list with them. ButtonBandits.com didn't see anyone giving these out or making this information available to people while they were there but ButtonBandits.com managed to obtain the track listing anyway as track listing was found left lying around on a table near to the upstairs Rock Band area during the break between the morning and afternoon sessions.
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Mar 4, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Rock Band drum kit modded Engadget reports: We've already seen a real drum kit modded for use with Rock Band, but that's unsurprisingly not the only bit of customization going on, as evidenced by this considerably scaled down kit created by David Yoon.
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Mar 3, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Harmonix Earn $208.7 Million Bonus From Viacom Media giant Viacom has its most recent yearly financial report, highlighting an additional $208.7 million in performance-based earnouts for developer Harmonix, following the success of Rock Band, published by Viacom subsidiary MTV Games.

MTV Games first acquired Harmonix in late 2006 for $175 million, making the studio part of the MTV Networks' Music and LOGO Enterprises unit, led by executive vice president Jeff Yapp.
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Feb 20, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - ROCK BAND Drum Kits Ship to North American Retail Stores Harmonix, one of the world's leading developers of music-based games, and MTV Games, part of Viacom's MTV Networks , along with distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc., announced today that individual drum peripherals for Rock Band have now started shipping to U.S. and Canadian* store shelves. The Rock Band Drum Kit (Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system) has a suggested retail price of $79.99.

Unfortunately Canadians must wait 2 to 6 weeks for them to hit store shelves.
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Feb 18, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Itunes Offers Rock Band Soundtrack iTunes has now decided to cash in on the Rock Band cash cow. They have compiled all the songs used in Rock Band into one place on the iTunes store allowing you to download all your favorites to your hearts content. If you want all of them though it's going to cost you a pretty penny. At .99 a song the whole catalog will set you back $73.26.
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Feb 14, 2008
PS2 News | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Hackers uncover Rock Band secrets? Technical minded Rock Band fans digging around the game's back end have found a list of unreleased tracks that could possibly be next for the onslaught of Rock Band DLC content.Here's the full list:(I Can't Get No) SatisfactionAlabama GetawayBeetlebumBehind Blue EyesBlinded By FearBreedBrown SugarCasey JonesChina Cat SunflowerCome as You AreD.O.A.Drain YouEl ScorchoFranklin's TowerFuelHysteriaI Need A MiracleLithiumLounge ActMarch Of The ...
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Feb 8, 2008
PS2 News from N4G | Rock Band
PS2 - Rock Band - Music Downloads: More Total for Guitar Hero 3, But More Per Capita for Rock Band Ben Fritz of Variety writes: "On the earnings call, Publishing President Mike Griffith said Activision has sold over five million song downloads for "Guitar Hero 3" on Xbox Live since the game launched. Recall that "Rock Band" has sold 2.5 million.

Of course, given that EA/MTV have sold 1.5 million copies of "Rock Band" in the U.S., compared to 6.5 million for "Guitar Hero 3," it appears that on a per capita basis, it's advantage: "Rock Band."

(One caveat: the vast majority of "Rock Band" units were for PS3 and 360, while many copies of "Guitar Hero III" were PS2 and Wii, which don't offer downloadable content. And Activision didn't include PS3 stats, for whatever reason. It's not clear how close the margin is just in terms of 360 owners.)"
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