Nyko's new heavy-duty drum pedal for Rock Band and Guitar Hero is now available in stores for $19.99.

The Metal Pedal is compatible with Rock Band 1 and 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero: Metallica on all consoles. Simply plug the pedal directly into the drum set and you are good to go!
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Kotaku writes: "MTV Games and Pepsi appear to be teaming up for a Rock Band-themed, Pepsi-soaked promotion this Summer, giving away up to 1 million free Rock Band tracks to lucky sugared soft drink swillers."
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GamePlasma writes:

"MTV Games and Harmonix have announced that the Rock Band Franchise has made over $1 Billion in sales in North American retail within the past 15 months, according to The NPD Group. Rock Band, according to NPD figures, was also the number one title of 2008 by revenue across all game genres."
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The official tally of playable music in the Rock Band catalog is 591 songs. PWN or DIE wanted to take a look at this list and see what they can tell about the songs they have chosen to include so far. They took time to make graphs to show some of the data compared by genre, decade, source, and more. Some of what they found is is a little surprising.
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14 tracks from Jimmy Eat World, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and No Doubt will be added to the Rock Band Music Store for Nintendo Wii this tomorrow. Wii fans should rejoice as the music is coming quicker to the platform than before. In fact, the music from No Doubt and Stevie Ray Vaughan will be released for Wii the same day as the Xbox 360 and two days before the Playstation 3, just announced on Friday. The Jimmy Eat World tracks were just added to the other two consoles the week before.
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Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of eight remaining tracks from The Cars' self-titled 1978 debut album to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for Wii home videogame console from Nintendo.

The lineup includes classic rock hits "Good Times Roll," "My Best Friend's Girl," "I'm in Touch with Your World," "Don't Cha Stop," "You're All I've Got Tonight," "Bye Bye Love," "Moving in Stereo" and "All Mixed Up." "Just What I Needed," also featured on The Cars album, was released to the Rock Band Wii music catalog in January.
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1UP:

"The creators of Rock Band at Harmonix and MTV Games opted to share their success with the Starlight Children's Foundation today, donating a minimum of $50,000 and over 650 Rock Band bundles to the charity organization. They're also participating in the charity's Great Escapes program, which will send children with life-threatening illnesses and their families to play Rock Band together, as well granting them opportunities to meet the developers and preview new game content before anyone else."
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World class gaming and music entertainment giants Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. and MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks, have joined forces to find the best Rock Band(R) gamers in America with the first-ever Total Rock, Total Rewards Rock Band Competition. The competition kicks off in March when Harrah's Entertainment properties become the first in the world to have official and permanent, fully-equipped Rock Band entertainment stages.

Throughout March and April, seventeen Total Rewards casinos will host local, weekly Rock Band Competitions, allowing fans of the popular game to win an Xbox 360 and Rock Band bundle as well as other Total Rewards items and Rock Band apparel and accessories. Four regional competitions will then offer customers the chance to win more than $50,000 in prizes.

The ultimate winning band will be given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open for the legendary B-52's at the House of Blues in Atlantic City on May 9th and will win $10,000 in prize money, making this the richest Rock Band competition in history. In addition, visitors at participating Total Rewards casinos across the country will be able to pick up their choice of guitar, bass, drums or vocals and rock out throughout the year during special Rock Band Nights.
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An interesting press release has just surfaced from the offical Rock Band foums that states that "In addition, songs from Snoop Dogg's impressive catalogue of hits will be released on MTV's hot-selling Rock Band® music video game platform."
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Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of seven new tracks from progressive rock band Rush to the Rock Band Music Store catalogue of downloadable content for Wii.
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Owners of the Nintendo Wii versions of the Rock Band games are getting another dose of classic rock music DLC. This time 7 songs from the legendary band Rush will be made available on Tuesday.
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Power Chord Academy, the nation's leading summer camp for amateur musician training, is excited to announce the addition of two new Summer programs!

GameROCKERS is an exclusive 3-day cutting edge game-musician program for the new age of musicians who play Guitar Hero or Rock Band. iROCKER is a 1-day version of the GameROCKERS program.
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All factory-included songs for each version now only need YOU to step up to the challenge and show that you are worthy of being the first official World Record Holders for the game at Twin Galaxies
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Wii fans can expect a rollout of the previously released downloadable content until the entire back catalogue of more than 550 songs is available. In addition, the regularly scheduled future Downloadable Content releases for Xbox360 and PLAYSTATION3 system will also be available for Rock Band 2 Wii owners soon.
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The line up includes "Siva"from Smashing Pumpkins, "Tell Me Baby" from Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Cars' classic hit "Just What I Needed." The offering also features the hit single "Gimme Three Steps" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Live Forever" from Oasis and the 30 Seconds to Mars hit "Attack."
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From the article: "An article in the latest issue of Billboard all about the upcoming year has laid a few predictions for 2009 at the feet of the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises. According to the article, an unnamed MTV spokesman has said that the Rock Band Store will increase its catalog from 500 songs to 5,000 songs in 2009."
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Off the back of the earlier news that Guitar Hero World Tour has outsold Rock Band by a ratio of 2:1, Red Octane's UK senior brand manager, Ian McClellan has said that in the UK, this figure is more like 4:1.
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Thatgamingsite writes: "Forbes Writer, Peter C. Beller has responded to criticisms made after calling music game 'Rockband' a shameless knockoff in comparison to Guitar Hero. Althought it looks like he's sticking to his guns on this one."
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New Rock Band music tracks are now available for Wii gamers. Harmonix and MTV Games have announced 6 new tracks have arrived on the Wii's Rock Band Store.

Today's music track additions include:
(All tracks are original master recordings)

Nine Inch Nails "March of the Pigs"
Nine Inch Nails "The Collector"
Ramones "Rockaway Beach"
Clash "I Fought the Law"
Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville"
Jimmy Buffett "Volcano"
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That Gaming Site writes: "Is Rock band a 'shameless' rip off of Guitar Hero? According to the latest article from Forbes Magazine it is."
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