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Rumor: Bob Marley's Legend comes to Rock Band Sept. 21
RockBandAide reports that a recent special on VH1 revealed that the Bob Marley "greatest hits" compilation album "Legend" will hit the Rock Band Store on September 21. If true, this would put many of...
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Rock Band 3 guitar trainer preview: Fret nice
We've previewed Rock Band 3's general new features, the Pro mode and the keyboard trainer, but where the rubber meets the road is the guitar trainer. This is where Harmonix can expand the scope of...
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Rock Band Weekly: Bob Marley's 'Legend' album
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture The rumor of Bob Marley's "Legend" coming to Rock Band next week is true, reports MTV Multiplayer. The one notable song missing from the DLC...
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Rock Band lawsuit settled; Konami and Harmonix dismiss 'all claims and...
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture Konami and Harmonix have settled their dispute originating in a 2008 lawsuit launched by Konami, reports Bloomberg. According to a filing in...
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Rock Band Weekly: R.E.M., T. Rex
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture Confess! We've all sung along to R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" like this: "That's great, it starts with...
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Rock Band catalog reaches 2,000 downloadable and on-disc tracks
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that the total sum of the on-disc and downloadable songs for the Rock Band franchise has surpassed 2,000...
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Rock Band Weekly: Jimi Hendrix's 'Are You Experienced'
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture Jimi Hendrix's exclusive Rock Band tour continues next week with the addition of the "Are You Experienced: Rock Band Edition" album. (For more...
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Bon Jovi Greatest Hits album to be released as Rock Band 3 DLC
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop CultureBon Jovi's new "Greatest Hits" album will be released November 9. If you'd rather play along with your own feather-haired avatar than merely...
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Rock Band DLC web widget makes sense of 2000 song setlist
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture So, yeah, there are a lot of songs playable in Harmonix's various Rock Band games. More than 2,000 in fact, encompassing Rock Band Network,...
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Rock Band Weekly: Stone Temple Pilots, Jimmy Eat World
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture The other "Creep" song will be available next week as part of Rock Band's DLC. No, not the one by TLC, and, also, not the album by White Zombie...
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Music game sales continue plunge down the charts
If this sounds like a familiar tune, it is: Music game sales have plummeted for a second-straight year. But this year, the tune is way more off key. According to analysis by Gamasutra, which looked at...
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Riccitiello: EA backing away from big acquisitions, not buying Harmonix
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello revealed a core attribute that the megapublisher is prioritizing in the coming years: Thriftiness. He explained the company...
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Rock Band Reloaded now available on iOS devices
Building on 2009's initial offering, Rock Band Reloaded ($4.99 on iPhone/iPod Touch; $9.99 on iPad) adds a new expert mode and full vocal support in the sequel. Just promise us you won't be that guy...
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Viacom denies keeping payments from Harmonix
Viacom has responded to claims this morning from Harmonix shareholders that the company avoided paying out bonuses to the developers of the Rock Band series. Viacom of course denies it dodged any...
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Rock Band dev Harmonix breaks from Viacom, goes independent again
Guitar Hero and Rock Band creator Harmonix announced this morning that it's splitting with parent company Viacom and "returning to our roots as an independent and privately owned studio" -- investment...
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Harmonix retains IP rights to Rock Band, Dance Central
Yesterday's Harmonix announcement of re-independence from global media conglomerate Viacom left questions hanging about the intellectual property rights to the studio's two main franchises. Joystiq...
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Fallout 3 tribute song now available on Rock Band Network
There's a lot of overlap between folks who love Fallout 3 and folks who love Rock Band. Here's some news that caters to the inner portion of that particular Venn Diagram: Nerd-rock duo Kirby Krackle's...
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Dragon Quest VI, Medal of Honor, and a bunch of Wii music items in Amazon...
Amazon is offering a spate of gaming deals in its Gold Box today, revealing a new time-limited offer every couple of hours. Strangely, the discounts are about half Wii music-game themed -- things like...
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Harmonix brainstorming 'reimaginings' of Rock Band, new motion games
"There's no denying that Rock Band 3 hasn't yet sold to the level we hoped it would out of the gate," Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos admitted to Edge. "But on the flipside of that we also believe that...
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Rock Band 3 Squier Stratocaster video review: Going to town in a Lincoln
Though the cornucopia of Pro Guitar tutorials available on last year's Rock Band 3 possessed multitudes of promise, the absence of a solidly-built, authentic guitar controller squandered away my hopes...
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