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Mar 11, 2008

Rock Band DLC for Week of 3/11 Announced

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The Rock Band DLC for the week of March 11 has been announced on the official Rock Band forums.

All songs are $.99 (80 Microsoft Points).

"Shockwave" by Black Tide (Master)

"Crushcrushcrush" by Paramore (Master)

"Beethoven's C***" by Serj Tankian (Master)
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Mar 10, 2008

Wireless Guitars Now in Special Edition Rock Band Bundles

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360 - Rock Band - Wireless Guitars Now in Special Edition Rock Band Bundles

Ripten's Dan Landis writes:

Upon a recent journey to my local Wal-Mart, I found myself in the electronics section like I mysteriously always do. What I found, however, was a slight surprise - a Rock Band Special Edition bundle with an included wireless guitar.
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Mar 4, 2008

Rock Band drum kit modded

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360 - 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 4, 2008

'Rock Band' Goes 'Truckin' With Downloadable Grateful Dead Tracks

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360 - Rock Band - 'Rock Band' Goes 'Truckin' With Downloadable Grateful Dead Tracks

Harmonix and MTV Games recently announced plans to take gamers on a long strange trip with the first selection of downloadable Grateful Dead tracks for the revolutionary music video game Rock Band. The first six of 18 classic Grateful Dead master recordings are set to hit rock band March 4.

Gamers looking to channel their inner Dead-Head can download six of the legendary band's most popular tracks, including "China Cat Sunflower" (from '69's Aoxomoxoa), "Casey Jones" (from 1970's Workingman's Dead), "Sugar Magnolia" and "Truckin'" (both from 1970's American Beauty), "Franklin's Tower" (from '75's Blues For Allah) and "I Need A Miracle" (from '78's Shakedown Street).
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Mar 3, 2008

Harmonix Earn $208.7 Million Bonus From Viacom

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360 - 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 29, 2008

Grateful Dead Rock Band DLC Announced

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360 - Rock Band - Grateful Dead Rock Band DLC Announced

Guitar Hero III gives us No Doubt the week we get NIN in Rock Band and now Harmonix is upping the ante yet again. Next week, Rock Band owners will get the Grateful Dead pack.

It will run $9.99 / 800 Points ($1.99 or 160 points seperately) and feature 6 tracks from the Dead. Check out the source to see which songs will be in the pack.
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Feb 27, 2008

Some Rock Band DLC Titles Get Patched

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360 - Rock Band - Some Rock Band DLC Titles Get Patched

Joystiq reports:

"A teeny-tiny Rock Band patch will be available this week which only affects a few DLC songs. Harmonix is apparently doing some early spring cleaning as it fixes some genre tags for songs and one vocal bug. The songs can simply be redownloaded today for Xbox 360 and Thursday for PS3 to receive the new version."
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Feb 22, 2008

Rock Band Weekly: Nine Inch Nails three-pack

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360 - Rock Band - Rock Band Weekly: Nine Inch Nails three-pack

This week's batch of Rock Band DLC is a triumvirate of Trent Reznor's industrial flare. It was noted in an copy of Official Xbox Magazine from late January, although for a March 18 release. The songs (all master tracks):

Nine Inch Nails pack (440 MS points / $5.49)
* March Of The Pigs -- (160 MS points / $1.99)
* The Collector -- (160 MS points / $1.99)
* The Perfect Drug -- (160 MS points / $1.99)

The songs will be available next Wednesday for Xbox 360 and Thursday for PlayStation 3.
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Feb 21, 2008

GDC08: Still Alive coming to Rock Band

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360 - Rock Band - GDC08: Still Alive coming to Rock Band

Joystiq writes: "There are plenty of parties here at the conference, and they're usually not the best source of news. So imagine our surprise when we read this morning that Valve used their party on Wednesday night to let it slip that Jonathan Coulton's brilliant song "Still Alive" would be available as DLC on Rock Band."
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Feb 20, 2008

ROCK BAND Drum Kits Ship to North American Retail Stores

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360 - 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

Itunes Offers Rock Band Soundtrack

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360 - 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 18, 2008

Rock Band Drums Kits in the Wild

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360 - Rock Band - Rock Band Drums Kits in the Wild

While over at Wal-Mart earlier today, Loot Ninja spotted a nice stack of Rock Band drum kits for sale. They had both Xbox 360 and PS3 versions for $79.92. Yeah, gotta love being 7 cents below MSRP.
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Feb 17, 2008

Target Offering $149 Rock Band Bundle

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360 - Rock Band - Target Offering $149 Rock Band Bundle

Still haven't purchased Rock Band? Too expensive? Well, here's good news for you.

Starting today, Target will be offering the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 special edition bundles for $149 USD, which is $20 cheaper than the normal price.

The offer will end next Saturday on February 23rd, so if you're interested, don't wait too long.
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Feb 16, 2008

Rock Band Weekly: Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer and Garbage

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360 - Rock Band - Rock Band Weekly: Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer and Garbage

Rock Band Weekly is normally a Monday post, but because of the President's Day holiday, the DLC announcement came from Harmonix a bit early.

Individual songs:
* Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots (160 MS points/ $2)
* El Scorcho - Weezer (160 MS points/ $2)
* Why Do You Love Me - Garbage (160 MS Points / $2)
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Feb 14, 2008

Hackers uncover Rock Band secrets?

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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 ... » Read More

Feb 11, 2008

Rumor: Latest OXM says Rock Band Word Tour playable online soon; DMC4/The Club reviews

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360 - Rock Band - Rumor: Latest OXM says Rock Band Word Tour playable online soon; DMC4/The Club reviews

Rumors - and we stress, RUMORS - from QJ.Net regarding the March issue of OXM claim that, among other things, OXM reports that:

"An update for Rock Band that will make band world tour playable online"

Also of note:

"What's interesting to point out here is that OXM has apparently given DMC4 a score of 7.5, while giving The Club as score of 8.0."

If this is true, it'd be reassuring news for those who thought that we may have to wait for the inevitable Rock Band 2 before we could play in a World Tour with friends on the other side of the country.
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Feb 11, 2008

Rock Band DLC for 2/12/08

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360 - Rock Band - Rock Band DLC for 2/12/08

This week's DLC for $1.99 per song (160 Microsoft Points)

"Complete Control" by the Clash (master)

"Truth Hits Everybody" by the Police (master)

"Teenage Lobotomy" by the Ramones (master)

These songs can also be bought in a 3-song pack for $5.49 (440 Microsoft points)
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Feb 9, 2008

Check out the "I Love Rock Band Valentine's Day Bash" on Wednesday the 13th… at 12 PM (at least in

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From the article:
"Two hours ago, a press release showed up in my inbox detailing a Valentine's Day Rock Band tournament organized by 1up, MTV Games and Virgin Megastores, and for the life of me I cannot decide why in the world they would possibly hold the "main event" of the tournament, at the Virgin Megastore inside of Downtown Disney in Orlando, at 12 PM in the afternoon on Wednesday, the day BEFORE Valentine's Day.

Really, if they couldn't get in there on the day of V-Day, couldn't it at least be held off until Friday night or Saturday afternoon (or even at the same time as the other locations)? It just seems ridiculous to expect that a decent amount of people will show up right in the middle of the day, while the kids are in school and everyone else is at work, to come to Disney World to compete in a Rock Band tournament, even when a $500 gift card and "other cool prizes" are at stake.

The tournament will also take place in NYC and Hollywood at a reasonable time, 6:30 PM."
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Feb 8, 2008

Music Downloads: More Total for Guitar Hero 3, But More Per Capita for Rock Band

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360 - 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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