Rock Band Weekly: HIM, Marilyn Manson, The Police
Last week, the Rock Band Store got a few healthy slices of Americana with tracks from Otis Redding and the Brian Setzer Orchestra. This week’s offerings are much more foreign — there’s a three-pack from Finnish rock band HIM, a song from Britain’s One Night Only, a track from The Police, and a song from Marilyn Manson, whom we all know actually descends from an extinct alien race whose name our human tongues could never hope to pronounce.
Click past the jump for the full list of new additions!
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Rock Band Weekly: HIM, Marilyn Manson, The Police originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Whitesnake songs coming to one music game or another, Coverdale not sure
Sure, you could guess that it was sex, drugs or rock and roll that addled Whitesnake vocalist David Coverdale’s mind so much that he can’t recall with any clarity which music game franchise he recently approved the band’s “Here I Go Again” and “Still of the Night” for. And you’d probably be right — if anyone took too many drugs and rocked a little too hard in the late ’80s, it was probably Coverdale.
But don’t jump to conclusions. Did you ever consider that maybe he was choosing to make a statement about the genre and its recent creative stagnation? Perhaps by saying, “I can’t remember which one,” he was actually opining that we haven’t seen any real innovation in the “strum on the note” experience since the first Rock Band added other instruments. Perhaps Coverdale was actually calling for both Harmonix and Neversoft to reach out for originality, distinguish themselves and their respective games, and stop releasing copy after copy of what are essentially the same experiences. It was either that, or the too many drugs thing.
Whitesnake songs coming to one music game or another, Coverdale not sure originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rock Band Weekly: Otis Redding, Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Chemical Brothers
Eclectic might be a bit of an understatement when it comes to next week’s Rock Band Weekly offerings, which run the gamut from soul to electronica to swing. Otis Redding dominates the majority of the new tunes, which is just fine by us. As for the rest, well you’re just going to have to hit the jump to see!
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Rock Band Weekly: Otis Redding, Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Chemical Brothers originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Beatles: Rock Band DLC ‘All You Need is Love’ coming to PS3, Wii
The Beatles: Rock Band single “All You Need is Love” will bounce on trampolines over to Wii and PS3 on February 16 and March 4, respectively. The song was initially released exclusively on Xbox 360, with proceeds from purchases going to Doctors Without Borders. The track raised approximately $218,000 for the international relief agency before the promotion ended on January 31.
All you need to download the track and start singing along is $2, or 200 Wii Points.
The Beatles: Rock Band DLC ‘All You Need is Love’ coming to PS3, Wii originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EA: Rock Band deal with Viacom only through March 2010
If you’re wondering where Rock Band 3 is, a year and a half after Rock Band 2 and five months after the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band, it seems EA isn’t sure it’s going to get to publish it. During an investor conference call, EA execs revealed that the publisher’s deal with Viacom (the company that owns MTV, Harmonix, Rock Band and maybe you as well) is only active through fiscal year 2010 (which ends March 31).
Presumably the deal somehow includes the yet-to-be-released Green Day: Rock Band — but EA’s unlikely to announce any more Rock Band games until it knows it has the license locked down for another year.
EA: Rock Band deal with Viacom only through March 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rock Band Weekly: Megadeth’s ‘Rust in Peace,’ The Who mashed-up
Hey, Rock Band aficionados! Are you ready to spend your hard-earned Microsoft Points, Wii Points or good old-fashioned cash money on tracks which you’ll never be able to play without injuring your tender, fragile metacarpals? Brace your bones — the Music Store is about to get a healthy dose of Megadeth, in the form of the outfit’s 1990 album “Rust in Peace.” Or, as it’s more commonly known, “The one with ‘Hangar 18‘ on it.”
The nine-track album will be available for $14.99 (1200
, bundle not available on Wii), and can also be purchased piecemeal for $1.99 (160, 200 Wii Points) per track. In addition, the Who’s “Super Bowl S-mashup” medley will be made available on Sunday after the big game for $1.99 (160, 200 Wii Points).
Check out all the songs included in next week’s update after the jump.
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Rock Band Weekly: Megadeth’s ‘Rust in Peace,’ The Who mashed-up originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Play The Who’s Super Bowl halftime performance in Rock Band [update]
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If you want to play a bunch of songs by The Who in Rock Band in a manner that satisfies your minute attention span, and do so soon, MTV and Harmonix just made an announcement that will delight you (however briefly). Alternately, you’re going to be thrilled if you want to capture some Super Bowl magic in your living room.
On Sunday, February 7, The Who will play a 15-song medley during the Super Bowl’s halftime show, and Rock Band will feature that same medley as a $2 download the same day (on Xbox 360 and Wii, anyway — the PS3 version will arrive later). The identities of the songs contained in the medley will be unknown until the Super Bowl performance, but, really, they’re all good.
Yeaahhhhhhhhh!
[Update: We mistakenly identified the "S-mashup" as consisting of the 15 songs listed in the press release. It is actually a medley of unannounced songs. We apologize for the error.]
Play The Who’s Super Bowl halftime performance in Rock Band [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rock Band Weekly: Chesney, Gentry, Flatts, Evans, Adkins & Willie Nelson
Next week’s Rock Band Weekly update puts country stars on the road again, yup, they just can’t wait to get on the road again. So, this is the part where I confess that I know little to nothing about the artists featured in the next update. Honestly, the closest I get to country is driving in my friend’s pick-up along the forest-filled back roads of Connecticut.
Check out the full pricing and track details for the console releases after the break.
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Rock Band Weekly: Chesney, Gentry, Flatts, Evans, Adkins & Willie Nelson originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Harmonix cooperatively developing Green Day: Rock Band with Demiurge, MK12, others
MTV Games has confirmed that Harmonix is working on Green Day: Rock Band. The reiteration follows the widespread misinterpretation of a Demiurge Studios designer’s personal blog post, specifically this line: “Not included in the [VGA] announcement was the fact that Demiurge Studios was working on Green Day: Rock Band.”
A spokesperson for the publisher told Joystiq in a statement, “Green Day: Rock Band is being developed by Harmonix in partnership with Demiurge, MK12 and others.” This is not Demiurge’s first time working with Harmonix on Rock Band: the studio had also previously worked on the Rock Band Country Track Pack and the Rock Band Metal Track Pack.
Harmonix cooperatively developing Green Day: Rock Band with Demiurge, MK12, others originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rhythm game devs: genre hasn’t peaked, user-generated content is key
In the latest issue of Edge Magazine, Harmonix head Alex Rigopulos and Neversoft project director Brian Bright both speak out regarding the current state of rhythm-music gaming. As you might imagine, neither developer thinks that the genre is flatlining. In fact, Rigopulos even believes that “future music games will exceed the sales success of the last generation.”
Surprisingly, though, while each heads up their own approach to the genre, the two seem to be in near-direct agreement on the next step for their franchises. “User-generated content will be absolutely critical to the ongoing success of the genre, I think,” Rigopulos says. Bright echoes his statement, saying, “I think user-created content is key to the evolution … if you can’t create or edit licensed music due to copyright laws, then you’re limited to pretending to play someone else’s music.”
That said, each developer differs in their definition of exactly what that “user-created content” will be. In the case of Rigopulos, he believes the Rock Band Network and its potentially “huge community of power-users — skilled music creators” will be his company’s next “defining moment.” Bright is less sure of a plan, simply stating, “I think the key is to create music, but make it compelling to create, so the game is in the creation.”
Rhythm game devs: genre hasn’t peaked, user-generated content is key originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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