The latest groups to join the ranks of Rock Band are Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden and KISS. The three master tracks join the game's growing list of over 30 from a diverse range of bands.

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
KISS - Detroit Rock City
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Sept 11, 2007 The musical journey to Rock stardom will begin, we hope, before the year is out on Xbox 360 and PS3, and the latest CG trailer demonstrates just what can be achieved if you and your musical buddies practice, practice, practice. We saw glimpses of some of Rock Bands band members in the E3 trailer, but not content with having to share the limelight with gameplay clips four of them have found time to star in there own music video. Perched on top of a moving car and Rocking out to ... » Read More

Sept 10, 2007 OXM has a weekly podcast (they're on episode 79). Last week they interviewed the man in charge of Rock Band, Alex Rigopulos, the CEO, president, co-founder and general cool guy of Harmonix. You should check it out. It's an illuminating interview that reveals several new tidbits about the game. The 360 bulk package of the game will not have wireless guitars but will come packed with a USB hub. The PS3 package will include wireless guitars, but neither version will have any option ... » Read More

Listing of superb games due to be deployed this fall.
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In the latest OXM Podcast, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos confirms that the Xbox 360 guitars for Rock Band are wired in the bundles. There will be wired and wireless versions available for the Xbox 360, but once again, the retail bundles will come with a wired guitar. The PS3 guitars are all wireless. The Xbox 360 bundle will also come with a USB hub for all the peripherals to plug into. On both the Xbox 360 and PS3 version the microphone and drum kit will be wired. Rigopulos says, "The cost of wireless technology on the Microsoft side is higher and to be able to offer those bundles at a price point that would be reasonable for consumers it was necessary ... on the 360 side we are also bundling a hub."
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As if Rock Band has not been hyped up enough already, now they are taking the game on a 24 state tour of the US where users can get a sneak peak at the game and some nice hands on time.
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Sept 5, 2007 We have an updated list of tracks that will be available for Rock Band when it releases in November. To be perfectly honest, the list has grown so much that we aren't entirely sure which songs are new to the list and which we already knew about. We do know that they have an impressive list of master tracks with only three cover versions on the list so far. Check this out, our most rockin', most updated Rock Band track list: Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper" ... » Read More

Gaming Target says: "Harmonix has announced they will be adding The Grateful Dead to Rock Band's lineup of "super groups" when the game ships this holiday season. Eighteen Grateful Dead master tracks will be available for download shortly after the game's release. Harmonix didn't reveal all of them, but did confirm that the following six will be downloadable: "Casey Jones," "Sugar Magnolia," "Touch of Grey," "Truckin'" and "Uncle John's Band."
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At the GDC, EA and Harmonix have revealed 10 new tracks for their upcoming game, Rock Band.

In addition, they announced the release of Rock Band in Europe in early 2008, completely with localized music. As of yet, there's no word on what some of that localized content will be composed of.
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Aug 22, 2007 Rock Band will now launch on PlayStation 2, in addition to Xbox 360 and PS3, developer Harmonix has announced at today's Leipzig Games Show. And as a nice little extra, there's also been ten new tracks revealed from the game's final line up. The PS2 version will "showcase many of the same challenging modes" as the next-gen editions, according to Harmonix, but will also bring in new features only available on the last-gen machine. The new tracks are all original master ... » Read More

Charles Huang cofounder of RedOctane isn't a fan of Electronic Arts taking credit for the upcoming Rock Band game. He said that calling it an EA title is "misleading." Huang also talks about the process of incorporating Xbox 360 wireless into the guitar for GHIII and more.
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HMXSean the community forum leader for Harmonix on the official Rock Band forums, has said that the article from dailygaming.net is absolutely false.

HMXSean said "In no way is this true. It is well written satire but it is very much satire."

Stopping any wild claims of a Metallica lawsuit against Red Octane, Activision or Harmonix.
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"An anonymous Microsoft employee claims Rock Band will in fact cost $199 as has been speculated, and that Xbox 360 owners will not be able to play the game using wireless controllers."
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Jon and Chip Carter of Tulsa World give their breakdown of the latest news happenings in the world of gaming. They let us in on the best of show winners from this year's E3, the happenings at the upcoming Penny Arcade Expo, the Square-Enix Fan Festival 2007 and the first North American winner of the professional Championship Gaming Series.

More after the jump...
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Jonathan Gitlin of ArsTechnica reports:
"The thoroughly addictive Guitar Hero, a particular favorite here at Ars, has helped Activision post some rather spectacular profits. EA, normally known for derivative franchise games such as the terrible NASCAR sim, doesn't want to give up without a fight, though, and its rival to the Guitar Hero series, Rock Band, is due out later this year.

Like Guitar Hero, Rock Band will let you play guitar. Unlike Guitar Hero, Rock Band will also let you play drums, bass, and sing; there's even a cowbell. Of course, each one of those will mean a separate peripheral, and that means even more money for EA. Earlier this year, Ben covered the predicted cost of a Rock Band set up: $300. You can therefore imagine my surprise when Best Buy advertised the game for preorder earlier this week at the low, low, price of $60."
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When signing into Xbox Live you will be prompted for a dashboard update. But what features will it add?

"The only thing this minor release will do is prepare your Xbox 360 for the wireless guitars that are being released in a few months.
No new features beyond this wireless support are included in this update"
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Sales for EA's Rock Band title scared over the weekend as consumers pre-ordered 200$ box sets of the new music tilte for Microsoft's Xbox 360 ans Sony's PS3.

The Xbox 360 Rock Band Special Edition rose 29.680 percent in sales by sat. evening. As of Mon. morning the tile had beci=ome the #4 best selling item at Amazon.com's Computer & Video Games division.

Sales for the PS3 Rock Band Special Edition increased by 4.586 percent by sat. evening. It's currently ranked # 74 in the Coputer & Video Games division.
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No HMV shenanigans here! Rock Band: Special Edition is now ready for pre-order on Amazon.com. Both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions are available for $199 plus free shipping. they currently have it listed as shipping on Nov. 20, but as we all know, these things can change.

There is a $20 difference in the cost of the PS3 Wireless Guitar ($59) and the 360 Wireless Guitar ($79). There has been speculation that this is due to the licensing fee EA had to pay to acquire Xbox's proprietary wireless technology.

Also, check out the box art.
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The votes have been tallied and the Best of E3 2007 Winners have been announced.

Rock Band with 3 seperate votes took first...just barely ahead of Mass Effect who placed second with 2 votes. However, the surprise comes with the games that took the rest of the places:

Bioshock
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty 4
Crysis
Halo 3
Killzone 2
LittleBigPlanet
Madden NFL 08
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Virtua Fighter 5
World in Conflict

Gamecriticsawards.com even broke down the tally further and the console with the most wins was...Xbox 360 (acquiring 11 wins), followed in second by the Playstation 3 (aquiring 8 votes). Third place was the PC (with 4 votes), and tied for fourth was both the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Oddly enough, the PSP was last...not even getting one game on the list this year!
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During E3, MTV Games and Harmonix revealed plans to release weekly downloadable content for its forthcoming rhythm, action, and music game Rock Band, and it now appears that will also include Nirvana's Nevermind. According to reports, the classic rock album will be made available after the game launches at the end of the year - there's no specific release date yet. EA, which will publish Rock Band, was unavailable for comment on the reports at the time of writing. The first full album to be ... » Read More