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According to a post on RockBandAide the king of cool himself, Bob Marley, is about to make an appearance on Rockband on the 21st of September. It’s been a while since I have played any music game but I have always been a huge Marley fan and this will most likely ... [»]
What better way is there to start a public holiday than to sit back and listen to Yahtzee rip into our two favourite music games. Well a better way would have been to go out last night to the wee hours in the morning and then completely sleep past this post ... [»]
Some good news for the local Beatles fans who were struggling with who were struggling to agree on how was going to be singing and who was playing the guitar in The Beatles Rockband. The official extra 2 microphone pack for The Beatles Rockband is going to be released in South Africa ... [»]
According to a Tweet by KalahariGames it looks like South Africa’s turn has finally arrived and we may indeed be getting Rockband locally. Last night Kalahari tweeted the following “Need to provide forecasts to EA for The ... [»]
So you enjoy rocking out to Rockband or Guitar Hero but yet at the same time your style is being cramped by the cheap plastic guitars that ship with the games, well your worries are now over.DreamGear has created the pinnacle of plastic guitar goodness with their WarBeast Wireless Guitar for the PlayStation 3. Not only does it look awesome but it has tons of extra features to help you really own the stage, such as the dedicated star power button, extended strum bar, removable face plate and a funky little switch to choose which game you are actually playing.Now I will be honest here, I would love to own one of these ... [»]
Music companies Apple Corps, Sony/ATV, and EMI -- the Beatles music catalog owners -- may have chosen MTV over Activision to publish its recently announced Beatles game due to the latter's inflexibility on song royalties. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has argued in the past that record labels who are asking for increased song royalties from rhythm titles, like Activision's own Guitar Hero franchise, aren't "respectful" of how much the games bring new audiences to the featured bands.Kotick remarked that music companies need to recognize how video games help increase sales for digital song downloads, suggesting that record labels should ... [»]
Harmonix and MTV have forged an exclusive partnership with Apple Corps to create a standalone music game featuring the music of The Beatles. Surprisingly, this will not be a game carrying the Rock Band name. While the game will play in a similar fashion to what we've become accustomed to in Rock Band, they didn't actually go into any sort of detail on what the game will be like. The reasoning for not calling this Rock Band: Beatles was because this game is fully focused on The Beatles and its intention of taking you on a journey from ... [»]
 Courtesy of a Rock Band 2 advertisement in Xbox Live we now have a good indication of when the Xbox 360 will receive its major dashboard overhaul.The ad says simply, "Check out the New Xbox Experience coming in November!"It also adds, "Coming in November, playing Rock Band 2 and meeting up with your band mates on your Xbox 360 will be better than ... [»]
Just a quick update, I see a few news stories are floating around this morning about Rock Band finally making an appearance down under and at a retail price of AUD$250 (R1616) for the whole set which is not a bad price ... [»]
As most of you know, Activision have already announced that they are looking to triple the amount of Guitar Hero titles by 2010. It seems that to reach this goal, Activision is going to be releasing themed games instead of the usual titles with various songs and artists. We have already seen the Aerosmith game and Metallica are getting their own game in the first quarter of next year as well. I know that both bands have a huge fan base but neither of them really appeal to me. ... [»]
It's no secret that Rock Band and Guitar Hero, which are two powerful music franchises, are still in a war for market supremacy and will do whatever they can to prove that their product is better than the oppositions'. That is why Activision has triumphantly announced that Guitar Hero is outselling Rock Band by 6 to 1. The reason apparently being that they have access to 30% of the ... [»]
Lately, reading about broken street dates is normal. It doesn't even constitute as news anymore because it is always bound to happen somewhere. Most developers hate it when the game is released early but not Harmonix. Harmonix smiles when you manage to get a a copy of their newest instalment before release date. They even congratulate you. If you turn your ... [»]
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