Oct 29, 2007 This is what you'll be rocking out to when Rock Band storms your bedroom early next year. 1960s Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" 1970s Aerosmith "Train Kept a Rollin'"* The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again" Boston "Foreplay/Long Time" Mountain "Mississippi Queen"* The Police "Next to You" David Bowie "Suffragette City" Black Sabbath "Paranoid"* Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper" The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop" Deep Purple "Highway Star" KISS "Detroit Rock City" Molly Hatchet ... » Read More

According to early tests conducted by IGN, the most compatible controller is Xbox 360's Guitar Hero 2 X-plorer model, which works with both upcoming titles, although you cannot use the special effects to the lack of a five-way switch. The GH3 Les Paul controller works with everything except the PS2 version of GH2 (played on a PS3, natch) and, like the X-plorer, cannot activates effects.

Rock Band's stratocaster, however, does not work with any Guitar Hero title on the Xbox 360. (IGN has not been able to test the PS3 version yet.) A statement released by Harmonix said, among other things, that they "welcome any 3rd party software that wishes to support Rock Band guitars. If a 3rd party guitar / music game does not support the Rock Band guitar controller, questions regarding this should be directed to the game manufacturer."
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IGN writes: "Rock Band is arriving in stores on November 20. Along with a guitar, mic, and drum kit, the $169.99 package includes 58 songs (45 licensed tracks, and 13 more that are unlockable)".
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Joystiq may go crazy over Harmonix and Electronic Arts' love child Rock Band, but data from IGN's GamerMetrics reminds us that the franchise has a ways to go if it wants to overtake its distant cousin Guitar Hero III.

According to the statistics, there were 22 million page views on IGN for Guitar Hero III-related articles, vs. 10 million for Rock Band (a 120% increase). GHIII was also on almost twice as many wishlists (5,755 vs. 2,928) as its competitor and over six times as many message board posts (25,000 vs. 4,000).
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Rock Band is gearing up to launch it's own community website on November 20, same day as the launch for the PS3 and Xbox 360, to allow gamers to view leaderboards, read blogs and even look for band members via the classified section.
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Would-be Rock Band purchasers sharpening their knives and survival instincts in anticipation of dealing with the consumption-mad masses on the game's originally announced Black Friday release date of November 23 can relax a little. Reps for developer Harmonix today confirmed for GameSpot that the game will now go on sale November 20, three days before "Black Friday," and in time for the Thanksgiving holiday
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Rock Band will rock your face clean off, but what else is on Harmonix's radar? Next-Gen speaks with studio boss Alex Rigopulos who says they want to expand the music genre, and that there are "other instruments that we haven't touched yet" and more genres they have yet to delve into.
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Harmonix's CEO tells Next-Gen that individual instruments for Rock Band will arrive "as soon as humanly possible."

In a recent interview with Next-Gen, Harmonix head Alex Rigopulos assured us that his studio will deliver individual instrument controllers for the upcoming Rock Band post-haste.

"The highest priority is to make sure that as many people as possible can have the multi-instrument band experience this holiday," he said. "We are working diligently to get individual instruments into the channel as soon as humanly possible and we have a huge effort in place to make this happen."
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Harmonix's music monstrosity will offer the most engrossing career mode in a rhythm game yet, as gamespot found out in gamespots exclusive look at the band world tour mode.
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Oct 18, 2007 Achievements for rock bands are usually things like longest groupie orgy and most bottles of JD Blue Label chugged in a pool full of cocaine; Achievements in Rock Band, just announced, are not quite as awesome but won't leave you with a drug problem, depression, or the clap. Below is the comprehensive list of Achievements for Harmonix's box o' rawk, which will keep you and your bandmates shredding at least until Keith and Mick die. Achievements will be retroactively assigned - ... » Read More

Here are the achievements for Rock Band. This is a world premiere of the 49 achievements totaling 1000 points. Warning in advance, these achievements reveal most of the game details, including cities that it takes place and more. Enjoy!
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The garage rock band has now turned into the living room rock band, and as Electronic Arts "Rock Band" approaches its release date for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 on Nov. 23, reports are stating that only the bundle will be sold initially.

The bundle will ring in at $169, and individual instruments won't be available until early 2008.

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The quintessential Southern rock band is Lynyrd Skynyrd. But one of the most recognizable Southern rock songs is actually by lesser-known Molly Hatchet. "Flirting with Disaster," the title track from Hatchet's second album (released in 1979) is the latest song added to the growing list for Harmonix's Rock Band.
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Harmonix teamed up with publisher EA to make perhaps the most ambitious musical outing the gaming world has seen thus far: Rock Band. Now that its PlayStation 3 debut on November 23 is finally within sight, the news is starting to roll in.
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Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 bundles will include the game, a wired drum kit, and a microphone. The 360 bundle will also come with a wired Fender Stratocaster guitar controller and USB hub, whereas the PS3 bundle will come with a wireless version of the Stratocaster controller and no USB hub. The PS3 edition's instruments can also be used with the PS2 edition of the game.
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Rock Band for PS3/360 set at $169.99, Nov. 23 release. PS2 version $159.99, Dec. 10 release.
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Last month at the Leipzig Games Convention, Harmonix and MTV Games' European publicist announced that Rock Band was coming to the PlayStation 2. However, no mention was made of a US release for the PS2 edition of the previously Xbox 360- and PlayStation 3-only rhythm game, which will arrive on both sides of the Atlantic later this year.

Today, though, US Harmonix reps confirmed North American PS2s will be able to jam with Rock Band. More importantly, the game will ship before the end of the year, putting it in further competition with rival Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Now, the Wii will be the sole console where the latter instrument-based rock-rhythm game is unchallenged when it ships at the end of October.

The PS2 Rock Band is a scaled-down version of its next-gen brethren, and will not have the iTunes-like functionality to download new music. It will, however, have a single-player career mode. So far, more than 10 songs have been announced for the PS2 version, including the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter," the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," and "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" by the Clash.
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Spray N wipe's detailed explanation of Rock Band's lagbuster, it's alot better than their previous lag prevention tools from the Guitar Hero 1 & 2.
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Amazon sent out notices this morning to customers that Rock Band had been delayed until late 2008. That is just plain wrong says Harmonix's PR. They have absolutely no idea how it happened, but when they asked Amazon to update their information to correct the error, Amazon then shifted all Rock Band content to 2008. Rock Band is still planned for this November with an official release date being announced "very soon"
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The Official Rock Band 2007 Tour kicked off September 9th at the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas. These are the first videos of ordinary people playing the next great party game.
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