Ars Technica writes:
"Mad Catz is really up in Rock Band's business. At CES we stopped by the company's booth to see what they had to show us, and the new selection of Rock Band peripherals was pretty impressive.

The first thing they showed us was an updated version of the Fender Bass controller. Coming this Spring for $89.99, the new version of the controller features quieter buttons, an improved finish on the neck of the guitar, and a split strum bar that registers one side as up and the other as down... which means you can pluck even faster. That's not the big news, though."
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Harmonix and MTV Games announced today that the inimitable singer-songwriter and producer Lenny Kravitz will bring four of his greatest hits to the Rock® Band Music Store of downloadable content. The multi-talented Kravitz has sold more than 30 million albums and won four consecutive Grammy awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance 1999-2002, setting a record for most wins in a single category. Kravitz' classic rock star style and one-of-a-kind, smooth sound that blends the best of soul, rock and funk have left many to classify him as one of the most regarded rock musicians of his time.
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Slashgamer Writes: "We have been invited to a special Rock Band 2 event somewhere in San Francisco. These types of things are common - it's a great way for the media to get a hands on preview and talk to the team behind the game. This time around we get to play with some tracks that will be made available soon that has already been announced to the public.

However, while reading the invite, we noticed one thing that was mentioned in the description."
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Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of one of the most influential pioneers of rock and roll, Roy Orbison, to the Rock Band Music Store catalogue of downloadable content. Grammy Award-winning Roy Orbison was a singer, songwriter and performer whose distinctive sound scored him an astounding nine Top 10 hits in four years in the early 1960's. Orbison's historic career began in the 1950's and saw a huge resurgence in the late 1980's, when he became a prominent influence on artists like Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Bono, K.D. Lang and Traveling Wilburys.
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Mad Catz has been a little behind with the third party accessories for Rock Band. Fear not because they have released not one but two separate products, one being the M.I.C and the other a portable drum kit. Both are made to be somewhat simple and portable.
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Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of one of the most influential pioneers of rock and roll, Roy Orbison, to the Rock Band® Music Store catalog of downloadable content. Grammy Award-winning Roy Orbison was a singer, songwriter and performer whose distinctive sound scored him an astounding nine Top 10 hits in four years in the early 1960s. Orbison's historic career began in the 1950s and saw a huge resurgence in the late 1980s, when he became a prominent influence on artists like Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Bono, k. d. lang and Traveling Wilburys.
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Lenny Kravitz and Steve Miller band are allegedly slated to be the next downloadable content packages for Harmonix's Rock Band platform.

The Kravitz songs to be included in the ever-growing library January 13 are the ones you would expect:

Are You Gonna Go My Way
Freedom Train
Let Love Rule
Mr. Cab Driver

The two Steve Miller band songs to be made available on January 20 are something to behold:

Space Cowboy
The Joker
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Blend Games doesn't write many stories targeting the 65+ demographic but here you go: Harmonix and MTV Games are planning to bring classic rock and roller Roy Orbison's music to Rock Band as downloadable content.
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Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of four new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content from bands Snow Patrol, Deep Purple, James Gang and Jethro Tull.
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Harmonix and MTV Games are rocking the holidays by delivering both a Rock Band "Rockin' the Holidays 2008 Pack" and more Foo Fighters to the Rock Band Music Catalog.

The Foo Fighters 3-pack includes"DOA" from the band's 2005 album In Your Honor, "Times Like These" from their 2003 album One By One and the hit single "This Is A Call" from their self titled debut album.
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Yahoo's Christopher null – who not only shares a first name with, but a striking resemblance to our own Chris Grant – has picked Rock Band 2 as the sole video game represented on the site's 2008 "best tech" list. Or, as Null says, "the products that really floated my boat in 2008."

Null calls RB2 "arguably the best game of the year," and says that, "I find it humbling that I listen to more music while playing Rock Band than I do on my iPod. The ongoing addition of new – and good – music to the game makes it an ongoing favorite at Null HQ."

On the worst tech list of '08 boat sinking offenders? Blu-ray. "There's a very loud and vocal minority that insists that Blu-ray will be a huge success," he writes. "The market would seem to indicate otherwise."
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Holiday music is coming to Rock Band, albeit in a barely timely fashion. Harmonix will be releasing a special holiday pack of three songs on December 23rd and hurray, it doesn't include "Last Christmas" by Wham.
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Gaming Guru handed out it's award for best game to play while intoxicated. The winner is.....
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Harmonix, the world's premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks, today confirmed that Ten, the debut album that sold twelve million copies and introduced the world to Pearl Jam in 1991, will be offered for download in the Rock Band Music Store day-and-date with the re-issue of the album...
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The 2008 SPIKE Video Game Awards have just wrapped and PS3 Attitude is here to give some quick impressions on the event.

Read on for our first impressions on God of War III, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Brütal Legend and more.

Excerpt from PS3 Attitude.
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An "exclusive" from Geoff Keighley, who likely read that line from a teleprompter while presenting live from the Spike VGAs: Pearl Jam's "Ten" album is coming as a Rock Band downloadable album in March. That should be just enough time for you to find the appropriate amount of flannel to wear while you play.

The full album includes the following tracks, and chances are you recognize at least a few:
* "Once"
* "Even Flow"
* "Alive"
* "Why Go"
* "Black"
* "Jeremy"
* "Oceans"
* "Porch"
* "Garden"
* "Deep"
* "Release"
* "Master/Slave" (hidden track)
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Gamerdeals.net writes:

"Highlights this week include Rock Band 2 (Nintendo Wii, PS2), Rise of the Argonauts (Xbox 360, PS3), and a few shovel-ware releases for good measure.

Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of December 14, 2008 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!"
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Edge writes: "The Rock Band franchise has an easier time attracting music talent than its competitors, claimed Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman during the UBS 36th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference on Tuesday.

"There's a strong music orientation to our company; many of our networks are ideal vehicles to promote the game, and you'll see more and more of that as we move forward," said Dauman.

'We also have the opportunity to attract talent to [Rock Band] in a way that our competitors have greater difficulty doing.'"
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The rumors have been scraping along for the past couple of weeks that Rock Band would introduce country music as part of its DLC catalog, but nothing was made official by Harmonix and MTV Games... until now.
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Harmonix and MTV Games today announced the rock-pop pioneers of No Doubt will bring thirteen tracks to the Rock Band music catalogue of downloadable content expanding the Rock Band library to include more than 500 songs!

No Doubt's The Singles 1992-2003 pack will include thirteen master tracks...
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