IGN: "It took a little longer than we were expecting, but the Rock Band 2 music store is now live. We have taken it for a test drive and verified it is up and running. Users are able to preview and purchase tracks, and there are 20 free songs ready to go. Unless they're free, all songs are 200 points each.

When you select a song for download you'll be shown how much space it will take up on your Wii and how much room will be left over. Once you have enabled "SD card mode" your downloaded songs will automatically be moved to your card. Weezer's "Buddy Holly," for instance, takes up 117 blocks, so this DLC will eat up Wii space fast.

Here is the full list of songs available for download now"
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GameSpot writes: "For a company that wasn't party to last year's E3 Media & Business Summit, Activision Blizzard made its fair share of news. Just before the show, CEO Bobby Kotick signaled his interest in creating a "viable alternative" to Apple's iTunes, saying, "If you're downloading a song to play on your Guitar Hero, there's no reason why you can't download the performance also." The move would be made all the more easy thanks to Activision's new parent company, Vivendi SA, which owns the world's largest record label, Universal Music Group."
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Joystiq:

"We're sure that most of our readers will already know this, but this is for our more casual audience. Rock Band DLC for the Wii is quite exciting, but let's be clear that nobody needs to buy the recently announced $13 Rock Band 2 SD card for it to work. The Wii should support any brand of SD card up to 2GB (beyond 2GB we get into murky tech territory)."
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GamingShogun writes, "ezGear has announced a very intriguing guitar-controller which features real strings to strum (though, thankfully, not tune) as well as multiple interfaces for several different platforms as well as an SDK to boot. You can even use it to play Rock Band or Guitar Hero. It is in pre-order status at a price of $149..."
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Engadget: "Okay, so we were actually pretty stoked about SanDisk's 16GB Ultra microSDHC / M2 cards, but this is just laughable. In fact, we just had to pass it along for the image alone. For those who don't understand that any SD card will work in your Wii, the 2GB Rock Band 2 Secure Digital card will reportedly hold up to 75 downloadable songs -- or 2GB of anything, actually. For those in love with the logo (yes, we're talking to you), it'll ship this Spring for the low, low price of $12.99."
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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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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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Harmonix promises downloadable tracks will be available on Wii "as early as possible." While it was promised way back in September, downloadable tracks for the Wii version of Rock Band 2 did not, after all, make it in time for the game's launch last week. But in a post on the game's official forum, Harmonix assures the DLC is coming soon.
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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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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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Here's the new videogames coming up in the week ahead. Wii owners can finally look forward to Rock Band 2 on the Wii. Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers have Rise of the Argonauts new this week. Check out the new game releases!
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The Wii will eventually have the entire catalog of songs available on 360 and PS3.

US, December 12, 2008 - Today Harmonix announced the release date and DLC details for the Wii version of Rock Band 2. The standalone game ($49.99), standalone drums ($89.99), standalone guitar ($69.99), and special edition bundle ($189.99) will all ship on December 18.
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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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New GameStop advertisement says game will ship before Christmas, rather than January.

There's enough hype surrounding each Rock Band launch on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 that it's easy to forget that their are versions for the Wii and PlayStation 2 versions as well. But Wii and PS2 owners haven't forgotten, and it looks like they might be getting a surprise this month.
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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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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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Nick Brekon writes "The latest issue of Harmonix' Rock Band Community Zine included some staggering statistics detailing the performance of the music platform's downloadable content.

Most notable is the company's claim of pushing over 28 million Rock Band track downloads to date. The Rock Band store now boasts 345 downloadable tracks by 239 artists, and has seen DLC added for 55 consecutive weeks."
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