Rock Band

By Dustin Burg Delayed only a few hours from its traditional early AM release, we're pleased to inform you that new Roy Orbison music for Rock Band is ready for purchase. All six DLC tracks can be found on the Xbox Live Marketplace, each costing 160 Microsoft points or bundled for 800. Look towards the fold f...

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By Dustin Burg Supposedly, during a Radio One interview, a UK Traveller's Tales employee confirmed that they're working on a new LEGO game and that it's releasing in 2009, but exact specifics were withheld. That game being LEGO Rock Band, or so says videogaming247 and their sources who claim their info...

By Dustin Burg According to the traffic reports, Rock Band, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Xbox hardware revisions and NXE Avatars were all the rage in '08. Interesting stuff. Oh how we miss you already 2008. You were good to all of us, even the bad fanboys. But now, we say goodbye and welcome 2009 into our hearts as...

By Dustin Burg Filed under: News, Rock Band 2In this instance, the rumors were true. Harmonix just confirmed that Roy Orbison and six of his musical melodies will be added to the Rock Band Music Store next Tuesday, January 6th. As is the norm, each song will be purchasable for 160 Microsoft points or a six so...

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By Xav de Matos These two categories have been mashed into one post due to a serious lack of quality competition. Civilization Revolution did the unthinkable, bought Sid Meier's famous franchise to the console and made it work but EA has strong competition waiting in the wings. On the music front, Rock Ba...

By Dustin Burg According to CMT (an all country, all the time station owned by MTV), country singer Roy Orbison will be bringing more country music to the Rock Band DLC library. CMT announced Orbison's Rock Band DLC plans on their latest episode of Top 20 Countdown, revealing that a "Roy Orbison Pack" (pr...

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By Dustin Burg Available for purchase off the Xbox Live Marketplace is new Rock Band downloadable content that'll fill both your holiday and Foo musical voids. That's because there are three new holiday music tracks and three new Foo Fighters tracks, each releasing in time for your holiday celebratio...

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By Dustin Burg If you thought the Rock Band holiday tracks were the only musical goodness coming to the Marketplace next week, you were wrong and are denied your weekly allotment of hot cocoa. Harmonix just revealed that on next Tuesday, December 23rd they'll be adding three Foo Fighters tracks to the Ro...

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By Xav de Matos Whoa. Sorry. We get a little hot under the collar shopping for presents. Anyway, Harmonix has announced a special holiday song pack for Rock Band. Releasing on December 23, 2008, are three songs to get you in the spirit of the season and shy away from the bitterness we unfortunately displayed e...

By Dustin Burg Today's the day Rock Band goes country with the release of five, count 'em five new downloadable content tracks that are all pulled from the country music genre. Music from artists including Dixie Chicks, Brad Paisley, Brooks & Dunn and more can be purchased off the Marketplace for 16...

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By Xav de Matos Major contributing factors to this year's current donation total included a gala dinner that brought in $200,000 as well as proceeds from special PAX'08 Rock Band tracks, presented by Harmonix. And they say gamers are all ticking time bombs of hate ... Well, how much have you given to the Chil...

By Dustin Burg Backstage at the VGAs, GTTV's Geoff Keighley just revealed that Pearl Jam's Ten album will be releasing to Rock Band next March. No, we didn't stutter, Pearl Jam is coming to Rock Band! We suspect all eleven tracks will be included in the album release, but highly doubt any of the bonus mater...

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By Xav de Matos Blogger at THEBBPS Jim Squires was in for a rude awakening while playing Rock Band when the included 4-port USB hub began fuming during a 10-minute play session. Playing with four instruments connected and plugged into an open wall outlet the device began to smoke as the wires burnt throug...

By X3F Staff Community Xbox 360 Fancast Special -- PAX 2008 Listen. Or don't. But seriously, listen.Fanswag Weekly: Smash Court Tennis 3 We're giving it away for free. It's tennis!X3F TV -- Watch the Rock Band song export process

By Richard Mitchell Filed under: X3F TV, Rock Band 2Now that Harmonix has released a title update to allow users to transfer songs from the original Rock Band into Rock Band 2, we thought it might be helpful to post a video walkthrough of the whole process. It's pretty simple, actually. All that's required is abo...

By Dustin Burg Today, Harmonix officially announced that the Rock Band disc export, the update that allows most all Rock Band songs to be available in Rock Band 2, is now available for download off the XBLM. Though, it doesn't really do anything until Rock Band 2 releases. The disc export update will set yo...

By Xav de Matos In an interview with IGN, Harmonix lead designer Dan Teasdale spilled some carefully worded beans on the sequel. Most importantly Harmonix confirmed all Rock Band downloadable content will also work in Rock Band 2 and Teasdale also teased that new features are planned "that let you play...

By Dustin Burg Today is Rock Band DLC announcement Friday and what an unsurprising DLC announcement Friday it is. Actually, Harmonix didn't even have to announce next week's DLC today, because we already knew about it thanks to IGN's release date mishap that went down earlier this week. So, this is more o...

By Dustin Burg Filed under: News, RumorsAccording to the music group Rush fansite Rush Blog, the latest issue of Game Informer mentions under its Loose Talk section that Rush and their Moving Pictures album will be seeing a Rock Band downloadable content release in the near future. And as a complete alb...

By Richard Mitchell According to RockBandMods.net, the officially licensed Mad Catz Rock Band instruments -- announced ages ago -- will finally release next week. Apparently, the instruments were listed on Amazon at one point, but the listings have since been removed. The instruments listed are/were:

By Terrence Stasse Filed under: News, DownloadsThe next newly announced piece of DLC for all the rockers out there will be hitting the Rock Band store on the 27th and is going to be the self-titled Cars album. The nine track album should satisfy fans requests and will arrive in exactly a week's time to let the go...

By Dustin Burg These seven new tracks are already included on the newly released European edition of Rock Band, so this DLC is targeted for those in North America who feel left out. Each chunck of DLC will cost you 160 Microsoft point and some hard ...

By Xav de Matos If we could speculate for a second as to why. Considering South Park had an entire episode dedicated to Guitar Hero and that the concept art for the eleventh season DVD set shows Stan and Kyle rocking out to Guitar Hero-style controllers it's possible that the tracks were never intended for...

By Dustin Burg It's a very special European edition of Rock Band DLC Friday today as our friends overseas will soon be experiencing all that Rock Band has to offer (and an expensive offer at that). So, Harmonix being the cool cats they are, has decided to offer up the tracks that were previously exclusive t...

By Dustin Burg As if the Rock Band copy-catting market wasn't getting saturated enough with Activision's Guitar Hero IV and it's peripheral additions, Konami thought it to be a good idea to get in on the musical fun by announcing their own clone of sorts called Rock Revolution. How revolutionary.

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 Dustin Burg The Music Store is everything Harmonix promised us and more, allowing easy navigation of Rock Band's entire DLC library from within' the game and song previews and lots more rock and roll. We're also told that the game's new DLC caching ...

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By Richard Mitchell The latest in a string of Frankensteinian efforts is a modification to the Rock Band Stratocaster that bestows the guitar with real guitar strings! Well, actually it bestows the instrument with precisely one guitar string, ...

By Dustin Burg Available for download off the Xbox Live Marketplace right this very moment are all three promised Rock Band DLC tracks that were announced yesterday. And even though the new KISS, B-52s and Faith No More tracks aren't all that ...

By Dustin Burg This week's Rock Band DLC was just announced over on the official Rock Band forums and we're proud to say that this week we are swimming in DLC waters that are 100% pure master track goodness. A big w00t to that. This week's DLC will be ...

By Dustin Burg Today, Rock Band brings us yet another set of musical track goodness in an effort to keep that smile on our faces while taking over the world one downloadable track at a time. And this week's Rock Band DLC is packing the Smashing ...

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By Dustin Burg It's Rock Band downloadable content Tuesday today (only if you live in the US) and that means there's brand new Rock Band DLC. This week we get to go punk with the release of the 440 Microsoft point Punk Pack which features three songs ...

By Dustin Burg Some customers, who've previously contacted EA about Rock Band guitar replacements, are receiving emails stating that there has been a delay in shipping the replacements out to customers. Something about the guitar manufacturer being ...

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 ...

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