Rock Band

By Stephen Totilo This is a hefty amount of 80+ games. If we average the full 25, we get this: EA's average 80+ metascore is 85.20. Let's not count six games. We'll include Rock Band but not Tetris. Then we get 85.95. It goes down only to 85.58 if I use Tetris and not Rock Band.

By Mike Fahey Black Friday is upon us, and that means there are some pretty good video game deals lurking out there. We've compiled a list of some of the best. Feel free to add your own! On the console side of things, Amazon has a 120GB PlayStation 3 bundle that comes with inFamous and Killzone 2, with a $10 Ama...

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By Stephen Totilo Activision's Wii Games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - 57 hours, 51 minutes Guitar Hero: World Tour - 35 hours, 18 minutes Guitar Hero: Metallica - 17 hours, 57 minutes Guitar Hero: Aerosmith - 13 hours, 14 minutes Guitar Hero: Smash Hits - 12 hours, 15 minutes

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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 Stephen Totilo We cannot stop new games from coming out, but we can at least review them. Here's what we reviewed last week, for those who may have missed them. Forza, Tekken, LostWinds, Saw, GTA, Dungeon Hunter, Rock Band iPhone, DJ Hero. Read! Rock Band Micro Review: iPhone Joins the Band

By Owen Good But I think I did detect a semipregnant pause from The Major after e piped up (31:30 of the podcast). Like "Oh man, someone's gonna stick this on a blog." And, I guess someone just did. Show #337: DJ Hero, MUA2, Lego Rock Band and MW2 [Major Nelson, thanks elektrixxx]

By Brian Crecente PositionTitlePriceWeeksLast Week1Rock Band (EA)$9.99212NBA Live (EA)$9.991-3Skee-Ball(Freeverse)$.99284Bejeweled 2 (PopCap Games)$2.991025Tetris (EA)$4.99836Doom Classic(id Software)$6.991-7Madden NFL 10 (EA)$9.99848Scrabble (EA)$4.999119The Sims 3 (EA)$6.998710Monop...

By Owen Good This week's count: 16 for Wii, 15 for DS, 10 for Xbox 360, seven for PS3, four for PC, three for PS3, two for PSP. Today (Nov. 1) Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! (Wii) Rabbids Go Home (DS, Wii) Friday (Nov. 6) We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Wii) Buck Fever (Wii)

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By Mike Fahey DJ Hero is barely out the door and already there are new downloadable tracks, with 50 Cent, Queen, Gorillaz, and Public Enemy hitting Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network today - for $3.00 apiece. Lee explains why DJ Hero tracks cost a dollar more than Rock Band or Guitar Hero tracks:

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By Brian Crecente What you missed: The Who: Rock Band Coming Next Year? New Xbox/PS3 Madden Was Born On The Wii BioWare Reveals Dragon Age's "Massively Single-Player" Details DJ Hero Review: You Spin Me Right Round Netflix On PS3 Getting Embedded Solution "Late Next Year"

By Mike Fahey DJ Hero was developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision on October 27th on the Wii, PlayStation 2. PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Retails for $119.99 ($99.99 for the PS2). A copy of the Xbox 360 version of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Performed all tr...

By Brian Crecente In a wide-ranging interview with Mass Live, The Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey appears to spill the beans on The Who: Rock Band coming out next year. Near the tail-end of the four-page interview, the site mentions The Beatles: Rock Band to Daltrey, who cuts straight to the bean spilling.

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By Brian Crecente I just went through my current stash of goodies sent me from publishers and there are a ton of neat things we're giving away including more than 70 T-Shirts, a custom straight jacket, a limited edition Brutal Legend statue, a Guitar Hero drum seat, a popcorn machine and a Divinity Dragon kn...

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!

By Mike Fahey These numbers make sense to me. While Guitar Hero and Rock Band have the benefit of recognizable instruments and music, DJ Hero consists of mashups of popular songs performed using a device that not a lot of consumers are familiar with. Just tally up how many times you've seen someone play im...

By Brian Crecente PositionTitlePriceWeeksLast Week1Rock Band (EA)$9.991-2Bejeweled 2 (PopCap Games)$2.99923Tetris (EA)$4.99784Madden NFL 10 (EA)$9.99735Need For Speed Undercover (EA)$4.99746Tap Tap Revenge 3(Tapulous)$.99357The Sims 3 (EA)$6.99798Skee-Ball(Freeverse)$.991-9Scrabble (EA)...

By Michael McWhertor Sure, it could use a little more footage from games that aren't Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, Madden, The Beatles: Rock Band, Assassin's Creed II, Killzone 2 and Resistance 2—some Demon's Souls would've blended in quite naturally—but its clear Sony is starting to get epic.

By Mike Fahey Harmonix celebrates Halloween in the Rock Band Music Store next week by cavorting with wild animals and the undead, adding new tracks from Rob Zombie, Wolfmother, and Liz Phair. Available on Xbox 360 and Wii (Oct. 27) and PlayStation 3 system (Oct. 29):

By Michael McWhertor Hey, Trine finally made it to the PlayStation Store! That accomplishment may be exciting, but perhaps not as exciting as some of the other addition's to the North American PlayStation Store this week. Check out the full list of new non-microwaveable treats in the PlayStation Store, righ...

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By Michael McWhertor The official Rock Band web site is selling the Rock Band Special Edition Bundle, including the game, drums, microphone and guitar, plus a copy of Rock Band 2 for a combined $79 USD. That's shipped. Shipped! Obviously, you're getting first gen instrument controllers, but you're also getti...

By Mike Fahey Sure, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury might have passed, but including a virtual representation of him in LEGO Rock Band is okay, since it's just adorable. Besides, he wasn't the voice of a generation, like other deceased lead singers we could mention.

By Mike Fahey Guitarist Brian May may have beat them to the punch, but that won't stop Warner Bros. Interactive and MTV Games from proudly announcing tiny LEGO versions of super group Queen in LEGO Rock Band....

By Michael McWhertor The Beatles: Rock Band folks further rub their victory in Activision's corporate face by pointing out that Guitar Hero 5 shipped on an additional platform (the PlayStation 2) and even included a copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen thrown in for free.

By Stephen Totilo Music Game Platform Choices Juggle: A lot of people are rightly focusing on the September victory of The Beatles: Rock Band over Guitar Hero 5. That's interesting. But here's another twist. Last year, Guitar Hero: World Tour launched in November 2008 with the Wii version as the top-seller (...

By Michael McWhertor 01. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360) - 1,520,000 02. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 442,900 03. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360) - 298,600 05. The Beatles: Rock Band (Xbox 360) - 254,000 07. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (Xbox 360) - 236,000 09. Guitar Hero 5 (Xbox 360) - 210,800 10. The Beatles: Rock Band (Wii) - 208,600

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By Mike Fahey The first downloadable album for The Beatles: Rock Band hits this week, with the remainder of Abbey Road allowing fans to play the entire 16 minute B-side medley all at once. Available for Xbox 360 (Oct. 20) and PlayStation 3 System (Oct. 220: Available for Wii (Oct. 20):

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By Brian Crecente All of those pretenders to the portable rhythm game throne better be ware, the official Rock Band game just hit iTunes. Harmonic' Rock Band for the iPhone and iPod Touch lets you jam out with a lead guitar, bass, drums or vocals... though no singing is involved with that last one, and will set you...

By AJ Glasser At some point during the talk, the moderator asked if the market was saturated with plastic peripherals. Fair point, but how are you going to get a guitar in the hands of everybody who wants to play Guitar Hero? Face it, cell phone interfaces just aren't the same.

By Owen Good The next Xbox Live update will deliver Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm, but, Ron Popeil style, wait, there's more! According to an email from Microsoft, anyway. Get ready for news headlines and dedicated music stores in the Xbox Live dashboard.

By Brian Crecente Those cleared songs are the only tracks that will appear within the LEGO Rock Band store for purchase. The LEGO Rock Band store will continually highlight any new family-friendly tunes that can be played across the Rock Band platform as they are released for Rock Band. "

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By Mike Fahey Who didn't see this one coming? A triple pack of music from Brutal Legend hits the Rock Band Music Store next week, along with tracks from Black Tide, Blink-182, Joe Satriani, L7, and Kansas. Available on Xbox 360 and Wii (Oct. 13) and PlayStation 3 system (Oct. 15):

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By AJ Glasser Now, of course I've heard people say that this is wrong; that video games cheapen or damage the experience of learning real music with their plastic peripherals and oversimplification of beats, rhythm and notes. But it seems like even more music games seem to be popping up in response to th...

By Owen Good You get the same four instruments in the mobile version - git-tar, drums, bass and vocals. Multiplayer functions like it does in the console game - you'll hear your bandmates' missed notes and be able to save their ass with overdrive.

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By AJ Glasser You Can Pair It With Guitars: This is a point toward DJ Hero's "utility." If you already own a Guitar Hero-compatible guitar, you can hook it up and play alongside the DJ. I'm not sure how great any of it sounds (presumably, these sections have been given the same attention as the singleplayer...

By Owen Good That's the $249 version, with Ringo Starr's drums and Paul McCartney's bass (plus microphone and stand). GamesIndustry.biz reports that Phillipe Dauman, the Viacom boss, told a conference yesterday that sales have exceeded internal expectations, to the tune of 25 percent of its inven...

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By Owen Good The Lawyer, a legal industry site, reports that the U.K. firm Eversheds handled a slew of agreements for Apple Corps, the Beatles' corporation. The work included not only contracts with Harmonix for Beatles: Rock Band, but also a deal with Disney to produce a new version of the Yellow Submar...

By Brian Crecente Ms. Cobain is extremely upset about Activision's use of Mr. Cobain's likeness to sing the songs of others in its Guitar Hero game," Keith A. Fink, Love's attorney, told Kotaku. "Activision was granted permission by Kurt's trust solely to use his name and likeness. Activision was not given an u...

By Brian Crecente This is the build, Activision tells us, that will be showing up at kiosks in stores starting in October. The ability to play music with both the turntable and a Guitar Hero guitar adds a lot of potential depth to the title, and will most certainly extend its reach.

By Mike Fahey While several bands have gotten their own standalone music titles, none have gotten nearly the sort of treatment Harmonix has given The Beatles: Rock Band. Not only is the track list solely comprised of some of The Beatles' greatest hits without any filler bands clogging up the works, the...

By Brian Crecente Instruments: Another level of realism includes the creation of four new controllers based on the instruments used by The Beatles. The Special Edition bundle of the game comes with a Ludwig drum set, a microphone and microphone stand and Paul McCartney's Hofner bass. While the drum isn't d...

By Mike Fahey Check out the full list of next week's Rock Band offerings below and remember, we're not unreasonable - I mean no one's gonna eat your eyes. Tracks available on Xbox 360 and Wii (Sept. 8) and PLAYSTATION 3 system (Sept. 10): Tracks available for Rock Band Unplugged (Sept. 10):

By Mike Fahey Scroll down for a full list of tracks coming to the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PSP versions of Rock Band. Note that Wii songs marked with an asterisk are only $1, or half price, and paying $1.99 for a Rock Band Unplugged song still seems a little steep to me.

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 Michael McWhertor New additions from Blind Melon, Blur, and the Dropkick Murphys head to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of Rock Band next week. Old additions from the Gorillaz and Red Hot Chili Peppers keep Wii owners of Rock Band 2 musically well fed. It's a long list, filled with variety, when you add i...

By Michael McWhertor Harmonix offered us a preview of The Beatles: Rock Band, giving us a chance to see what separates the Fab Four's entry from previous Rock Band titles. Most notable among them are the game's story mode, prizes and "Beatle Beats." Harmonix previewed a handful of those for us, including The Bea...

By Luke Plunkett Yoko Ono. Were Ron Burgundy to translate the name, he would say it meant "destroyer of worlds." So it was to be expected that the wife of John Lennon would give the team at Harmonix a hard time. The Beatles Make the Leap to Rock Band [Wired]

By Michael McWhertor This newest issue of Game Informer magazine has already landed in the hands of subscribers, featuring a cover story on MTV Games and Harmonix's The Beatles: Rock Band. Beneath that cover lies the game's final track listing. Dear Prudence Back In the U.S.S.R. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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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...

By Michael McWhertor Similar to the deal that GameStop ran a few weeks ago, the full band kit can be had for a song, a price "currently not available online." Looks like someone needs the space for the Fall flood of Guitar Hero 5 and The Beatles: Rock Band boxes. On top of that, we're told "roughly 200 price drops" wen...

By Michael McWhertor MTV Games' Rock Band series shrinks down and drops the plastic instruments for the PlayStation Portable release Rock Band Unplugged, which turns the band video game series into a break out solo effort. If you're at all interested in the Rock Band series or have enjoyed Harmonix's origina...

By Mike Fahey We've taken a look at the songs that simply must be included with the game, along with instruments they could reproduce in order to make The Beatles: Rock Band Premium Bundle worth picking up, even if we already have a living room full of plastic instruments.

By Mike Fahey M.I.C. actually stands for Microphone with Integrated Controller, and that's exactly what the Rock Band M.I.C. is. You've got your standard wired premium microphone, with the Xbox controller's A, B, X, Y, start, back, and home buttons placed in a line down one side of the grip. It's a design so sim...

By Brian Crecente While playing Guitar Hero World Tour for my review of the game I started thinking that maybe the plastic and rubber drum kit was a bit louder that Rock Band 2's. So Adam and I made this short little video showing me playing a chunk of the same song. This isn't scientific at all (You'd need a way to m...

By Brian Crecente Guitar Hero: World Tour was developed by Neversoft for the Xbox 360 and PS3, published by Activision and released on Oct. 26 for Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. The Band Kit retails for $189.99 USD. Completed single-player tour using guitar, played many songs using bass, drum...

By Mike Fahey Has Activision managed to beat Harmonix at their own game, or is Guitar Hero World Tour but a pale imitation? Let's see what the all-star game critics super group has to say. From nowhere near even Rock Band 1 to look out, Harmonix, in five easy steps.

By Owen Good Hope everyone's had a good chance to fan themselves and hose off following Thursday's introduction to Grace Kim, the former Activision PR rep turned Guitar Hero Rock Band vixen in this month's Playboy. Remember a while back, the survey that asked if anybody's played video games in the nud...

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By Brian Crecente Rock Band 2, developed by Harmonix and published by Electronic Arts was released on Sept. 14 for the Xbox 360. Retails for $60 for just the game, $190 for the special edition with instruments. Focused on tour mode both solo and with others, tested Xbox Live online play.

By AJ Glasser Here’s the thing – this game is Rock Band. No, don’t give me that crap about how it’s different, it’s better, it’s got six drumheads, so it’s totally different. It is Rock Band. And who says that’s a bad thing? I already knew how to play the instruments. Not well, mind you, but it’s not like I needed...

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By Brian Crecente This year around the retailer-only show will give folks their hands on time with Guitar Hero: World Tour, Rock Band 2, Wii Music, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Spore, Call of Duty: World at War, Animal Crossing and, I'm told, a first ever chance to check out Halo Wars.

By Jim Reilly There are new and improved guitars this time around. All the instruments are sturdier and all wireless, including the drums. The guitar is pretty much the same, with the exception of a new wood grain look and a sensor to test playback lag. The drum foot pedal stays attached to the drums and feat...

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By Michael McWhertor Guitar Hero World Tour adds Band Careers to the series, a la Rock Band, but lets lonely bass players have their shot at fame and takes the whole career experience online. The Band Career system is said to be non-linear, letting players pick up gigs out of order.

By Mark Wilson Anticipating the comments, I'm going to point out that, yes, you could make such a contraption at home for less money. But given what we've already spent on Rock Band, what's another fitty? Lightning Review: Rock Band Stand Keeps Your Guitars, Controllers and Mics in Check [Gizmodo]

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...

By Mike Fahey Fontaine also stated that he "was particularly pleased with record holiday handheld sell-outs of the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. The Nintendo Wii, even in the face of on-going seasonal shortages, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3, proved to be on many holiday wishlists as n...

By Mike Fahey Chris Paladino with Microsoft's Gamerscore Blog got a chance to rock out to Black Hole Sun on a prototype Rock Band drum set being developed by Ion. Lovely little set, with cymbals included that mirror the placement of the drum for a more authentic drumming feel. Chris kicked it up to expert a...

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 Brian Crecente Some good, scratch that, great news for Rock Band fans from Harmonix today. They wrote to tell us that gamers who are experiencing problems with their guitars (or any of the Rock Band instruments) should contact EA's customer support website and they will send out a replacement immediate...

By Mike Fahey While members of my family are great at bullshitting, we're also pretty good with rhythm and music. My mother and her mother before her ran dancing schools for most of their lives, with most of the girls in the family performing at some point. My brother Richard and I both dabble with musical i...

By Michael McWhertor Sorry, SingStar, but any intentions I had of purchasing your off-disc tunes have gone by the wayside, now that I know that stellar downloadable content from Metallica will be arriving for the week of Rock Band's release. Gamespot has details on the planned song list, as well as the flexibl...

By Michael McWhertor The latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine features not only a gushing review of Harmonix and MTV Games' Rock Band, it also provides zipper tearing details on the game's upcoming downloadable content. We've known for some time that tracks from The Who, The Grateful Dead, and Nirvana w...

By Mark Wilson · The Rock Band Special Edition Bundle for the PlayStation 2 system will feature a wired drum kit, wired microphone, wireless Fender Stratocaster guitar controller and a USB hub. · Standalone instrument peripherals for Rock Band, including a wireless guitar option for the Xbox 360, wil...

By Michael McWhertor Of course, Croal has a number of reasons for suggesting this course of action, including that potentially "thousands of Xbox 360s [are] in stores with this design flaw" and that many gamers looking to play this year's hottest 360-bound titles—Rock Band, Halo 3, Grand Theft Auto IV, Mass...

By Michael McWhertor The anonymous Gamespot tipster also revealed some preliminary information on the game's peripherals, including details on Rock Band's drum kit controller, as well as early pricing speculation. According to the focus test the reader participated in, a retail price between $150 and $2...

By Michael McWhertor In addition, the NanaOn-Sha staffer says that the rhythm genre he helped create is on the decline in Japan. That's in contrast to current Western tastes where music titles like Boogie, Rock Band and Guitar Hero are still hot. What's contributing to this downfall? Flat panel TVs, he says, an...