Rock Band

By Griffin McElroy We wish Harrison and the entire Harmonix crew the best of luck in this endeavor, if only so they can finally stymie the infinitely deplorable "why don't you learn how to play a real instrument" contingency. Man, we hate those guys.Dhani Harrison: Rock Band 3 will make you better at actual roc...

Dhani Harrison, son of the Beatles' late George Harrison, works as a consultant for Harmonix on the Rock Band series. He worked on the original Rock Band, and naturally helped produce The Beatles: Rock Band. "I guess I'm accidentally responsible for 'Rock Band' becoming the Beatles digit...

“I’m working on Rock Band 3 and making the controllers more real so people can actually learn how to play music while playing the game,” Harrison said. “Give me a couple years, it’s going to happen.” Watch Larger Version of this Video What do you think? Do you want to use a game to learn to play re...

By Gus Mastrapa In the old days, kids had to rifle through their parents’ dusty record collection to discover new and dangerous music. Now, they’ve only got to play Lego Rock Band. The new family-friendly rhythm action game from Traveller’s Tales and Harmonix came out Tuesday for the Xbox 360, Wii and Play...

By editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) But assuming consumers are willing to spend more than $100 on a single video game, could DJ Hero revolutionize rhythm games? The advent of Guitar Hero let entirely new audiences tap into a near-universal fantasy. Whether video game fan or not, how many people have never once rocked out on a...

By RawmeatCowboy EA’s Wii Games* Average total playing time per Nintendo Channel user, since the game’s launch Rock Band 2 - 45 hours, 30 minutes FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play - 34 hours, 21 minutes Rock Band - 31 hours, 47 minutes The Godfather: Blackhand Edition - 28 hours, 52 minutes Madden NFL 08 - 28 hours, 39 m...

By kernowgames For a start there is the Vocal mode which works in exactly the same way as Drums, Guitar or Bass. You simply tap coloured notes in time to the music. Its a shame there is no option to y’know actually sing which is possible and has been achieved in all other versions. Secondly the gameplay is very ni...

By Brian Crecente We're asking for a minimum donation of $10 to get in and get a door prize ticket. We will be giving away a huge amount of swag including more than 70 T-Shirts, a custom straight jacket, a Guitar Hero drum seat, a popcorn machine and Divinity Dragon knives.

By admiralneck Other than choosing lasers over booms, the basic tutorial didn’t give a hint as to what the effects dial does, but apparently you use this in the same way you use the Whammy Bar on a Rock Band/Guitar Hero controller, to “customise” the sound on screen. As with Rock Band and Guitar Hero, all thi...

By matt cabral Loved Band in Your Hand: Four instruments-guitar, bass, drums, vocals, 20 tracks, world tour, quick play, multiplayer, and even a music store make the jump to Apple's slick portable. Despite the absence of plastic peripherals and avatars , Rock Band on iPhone, well...rocks!

Activision actually trademarked DJ Hero after Guitar Hero exploded, long before the project that would actually become DJ Hero came to fruition. DJ Hero was originally an untitled, unannounced DJ take on Guitar Hero in development for Vivendi Games by FreeStyleGames before Vivendi me...

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By RawmeatCowboy “Stage-Gig is the first speaker system designed from the ground up for use with Rock Band, Guitar Hero and DJ Hero,” explains Don Milks, senior manager of product management at Altec Lansing. “By amplifying the audio, Stage-Gig makes the games feel even more like you are playing in a live c...

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By Karl B. Harmonix has just released a patch for Rock Band 2's Xbox 360 version that ...

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An update for the Xbox 360 edition of Rock Band 2 was released by Harmonix today, delivering the long promised support of the Xbox 360 Wireless Microphones that come bundled with Lips and were recently released for standalone purchase. The Xbox 360 incarnations of recent music games rele...

By RawmeatCowboy TR: That’s a great question and I’m glad you asked. Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero are unique in that if you’re a hardcore consumer and you like unlimited access to music you’ve already purchased — we now have that. You can transfer over music that you’ve previously played from World Tour, Smash H...

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By Stephen Totilo Launching on the Xbox 360 in November and coming later to the PlayStation 3, the Rock Band Network is one of those grand creations that just maybe could change how everything works in its corner of the video game kingdom. At the MTV offices in Times Square earlier this week, a quartet of Harmo...

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By Jeff Atwood I recently picked up a package deal that included the Mad Catz Rock Band Overdrive Pedal. This is as simple as it looks. It’s a freakin’ metal box with a switch that you plug into your Rock Band guitar (if you haven’t noticed, the port is on the side of every guitar). When you stomp on [...]

By Stephen Totilo My expectations for how the band would take to Rock Band were initially low, especially when the microphone kept disconnecting, preventing an experiment in how Mintz's signature howling vocals might translate to the game. As the Rock Band quartet lost Dvorak's attention in favor of the...

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Unlike other, better music games, Rock Revolution doesn't have its own set of instruments. You can buy a special drum kit for it in the States, but that doesn't appear to be available here. The good news is you can use Guitar Hero and Rock Band controllers to play the game instead. The bad news is...

By Jeff Atwood On the Rock Band side of the fence, I was surprised to discover that Harmonix now has an officially blessed dual drum kick pedal solution too! You can buy an add-on kick pedal for $24.99. The only place I could find the pedal for sale is at GameStop, as the Universal Rock Band Drum Pedal.

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Cami, theburntmatches, shows us how to unlock all songs on Rock Band! It is a simple way to unlock all the songs in XBOX 360, PS3 or Wii Rock Band ... www.wonderhowto.com

By Jeff Atwood In Quieting your Rock Band Drums, I described a few ways you could reduce the terrible clickety-clack noise of the old Rock Band 1 drumset. Fortunately, with the Rock Band 2 wireless drum kit, noise is much less of a problem, as the drums come with a thin rubber layer on top this time around.

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By Chris Kohler As it turns out, Harmonix has quite a bit to say about Rock Band 2 on Wii. Regarding the impending and very late release of Rock Band 2 for Wii, Harmonix has issued a detailed statement in response to our... As it turns out, Harmonix has quite a bit to say about Rock Band 2on Wii. Yours, Harmonix

By James Ransom-Wiley The guide continues, teasing that Harmonix "has not revealed the functionality for this input," which will "be announced at a later date, along with further details for double-kick functionality." So ... the port is for a second kick pedal, after all? Along with a ... what? Perhaps Harmonix is v...

The cross-game instrument compatibility fulfills Sony's earlier promise, with Microsoft having made a similar vow for the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 instruments for Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour were cross-compatible upon release.

This video teaches Rock Pedal users how to adjust the tension. Rock Pedal is a Rock Band drum pedal replacement that is stronger than the ... www.livevideo.com

I have learned to play drums because of Rock Band. I have two friends that have started to learn guitar because of Guitar Hero. Also, Nickelback, learn how to play your own instruments before you complain about other people not learning ...

By BOMB Matt Gameplay We'll start with the Guitar Hero microphone. Or is it the Rock Band microphone? The Logitech microphone? They are all the same thing. Really... they are all made by Logitech, have the same specs, and the same form factor. No difference between them at all. The drums... Rock Band 2 - Buy It

By Rajiv Ashrafi Related Posts. Rock Band 2 Wii Supports World Tour’s Controllers, All Rock Band DLC. Developer Harmonix has confirmed that the Wii release of Rock Band 2 will be compatible with the Wi… Rock Band PS3 Gets Guitar Hero Support, PAX Patch ...

By Derrick Schommer This week’s Gaming Podcast, we’re doing a review of Rock Band 2 and it’s drum kit. We are also digging into some juicy news on: Fable II launches with no on-line co-op mode EA slapped with class action law suit over Spore DRM Warhammer Online hits 500K subscribers Sony PS3, not the most popula...

By Brad Moon Devo: "Girl U Want".  'Cause it's on Rock Band and started this whole post.  A performance video with the band in their trademark Flower Pot hats (sorry- "energy domes"), silver suits, stilted robotic movements and not one, but two keytars...  And it's on the TankGirl soundtrack.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 Mad Catz Ships the First-Ever Rock Band(TM) Bass Guitar Fender Precision Bass Guitar Kicks Off a Full Line of New Rock Band Products SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2008--Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (AMEX/TSX: MCZ), a leading third-party interactive entertainment accessory provider, announced today that it has begun shipping its Fender(TM) Precision Bass guitar for the Xbox 360(TM), the initial offering under its license with Harmonix and MTV Games to produce and distribute game peripherals and other products for the critically acclaimed Rock Band(TM) game. "We are excited to be providing an opportunity for the millions of Rock Band fans to enhance their game-playing experience with our Fende...   [read the full post]

By OneSwitch.org.uk Kinetic.com have posted a DIY modification guide for Rock Band for people who can't use their legs on the drum set kick stand. Instead, the mod adds a button to the drum stick to replace the need to use ones legs on the kick stand. ...

How To Import Rock Band: An Australian Guide  Australia - May 18, 2008 According to the article, you can pick up the Rock Band bundle, including a second guitar, for $440. As a bonus, the article includes info on how to fix the ...

By sasuke_kun12 This will hopefull tell you how to create your very own bass drum/hi-hat pedal for you DIY electronic drum kit (mine coming soon!) to gamepad hack or as a fix for your rock band pedal (not tested since i don't have rock band). ...

By Richard Mitchell The 360 Fancast keeps on truckin' with a brand new episode. This week, we talk Sonic Unleashed, Castle Crasher, Bad Company -- and the bad XBLM strategy that accompanies it -- as well as the Rock Band store and Halo 3 DLC news. Oh, and we also tell the story of one man's quest to get his broken Rock...

By Alexander Sliwinski 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 t...

By Michael McWhertor What a glorious console age we've entered, when individual tracks from Rock Band get their own patched releases. It's all for the best, though, as they're merely minor fixes that aren't treating game killing bugs, just addressing incorrect meta information. In the case of "Limelight", t...

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Activision expressly prohibits the use of this Guitar Hero controller with any other game." An update to the PlayStation 3 version of Harmonix's Rock Band will arrive later today, granting compatibility with the wireless Les Paul controller bundled in the PS3 version of Guitar Hero III...

By Michael McWhertor The Harmonix community manager writes at the official Rock Band forums that a routine patch for the PlayStation 3 version of the game is coming soon, one that will address "a number of items related to guitar controller compatibility." The patch was expected to be released yesterday, but...

By Richard Mitchell An intrepid blogger at dxprog.com has discovered how to use the Rock Band drum kit with a Windows PC. The whole process seems pretty simple, and has been made even simpler thanks to an installer program (use at your own risk) created by ...