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Births, an interview with Harmonix, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair reviewified, hands-on with the latest Red Dead Redemption DLC, and an important lesson on how to talk shit in Street Fighter. Oh, and we've got another FREE GAME to give away....
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Rumors that Rock Band 3 would feature a new keyboard instrument seem to have been confirmed by a tease at the end of the demo for Green Day: Rock Band. Will it be a keytar, as Ars Technica’s mole claimed? Or will it be a more traditional keyboard? How will the user interface accommodate all the new keyboard notes? We don’t know for sure. But we do know what songs we want to be playing when Rock Band 3 releases. Check out our picks, and tell us what tunes you’d like to see on the next set list…
Above: The icon on the far right is a raging confirmation that a keyboard is on the way for Rock Band 3!
While mainstream rappers express their affection for video games from time to time, the underground "nerdcore" hip-hop movement takes the connection to a whole other level. There are entire songs and albums dedicated to a love of gaming, and many of these artists plug references into their most popular tracks.
Here are our ten favorite songs and videos. Crank your PC speakers, dial the geekiness to 11 and let's get rolling.
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Like petty school children bickering in a playground fight, gamers are obsessed with choosing sides. Never content to rate a game as simply “above average” or “slightly disappointing,” we allow internet hearsay, magazine previews, fanboy feuds and console preferences to push our views to ridiculous extremes. We can’t just like something… we have to deem it BEST EVER. We can’t just dislike something… we have to declare it EPIC FAIL.
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The secrets of their success in their own words.
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Last year we compared upstart Rock Band against Guitar Hero III to see which shredded harder, and more importantly, which one shredded properly. Difficulty is one thing, proper note allocation is another, no?
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the runts and rejects of the forces of darkness, the first line of defense for evil. They're kind of a joke. Nonetheless, they stand tall and straight, inches above knee level, and they bop, hop and wiggle towards any nearby heroes.
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Rock Band can make anyone feel like a rock star, but feeling and being are separated by millions of dollars, obsessed fans, and a voice that anyone actually wants to hear ever. For each “Rock Band EXPERT 5 StArS!!! OMG!” video you find on YouTube, you can find another song mangling performance so atrocious that it would make Simon Cowell's man breasts explode with snideness.
Some think they can actually
If you’re reading these words, then we salute you for being adventurous enough to watch games journalists make fools of themselves on camera. Yes, GamesRadar has made another (awesome) custom video; this time taking advantage of Rock Band 2’s killer wireless instruments. Laugh as we disrupt PlayStation: The Official Magazine, cry as we barge in on the Official Xbox Magazine and uh, laugh again while we keep the good folks at PC Gamer from doing their jobs.
If you're in the market for Rock Band DLC, odds are you tend to buy what you know and leave the rest to rot. We used to do the same... until we realized how many kickass songs we were passing by simply because we'd never heard them before.
That's where DLC Breakdown comes in. We review each song by instrument, so bassists know to check out a starred song even if they've never heard it.
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