Today, the Music Store for the Wii version of "Rock Band 2" is officially live. One of the key components of "Rock Band" on the PS3 and 360, the Music Store allows owners of the "Rock Band" games to purchase downloadable songs, including 20 free "Rock Band 2" DLC tracks and 30 additional pay-for-purchase ones. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 2, 2009
Another music legend is coming to Rock Band: Roy Orbison. Just before Christmas, CMT revealed that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer would be hitting Rock Band in the future, but Harmonix and MTV Games didn’t confirm that news until earlier this afternoon. Thankfully, unlike a lot of big name musician DLCs, we’re going to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 22, 2008
Surprise surprise, but it turns out some musicians are starting to make more money from video games than from actual CD and download sales. In a recent article by the AP, we learn that Aerosmith made more money from their Guitar Hero tie-in than they did on their last two albums combined. Meanwhile, the Red Hot [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
This Friday, Wii owners will finally be able to play Rock Band 2—two months after PS3 owners had their chance, and three months after the 360’s first software release. Harmonix feels the pain of all you Wii owners who have been lamenting the lack of Rock Band 2, though, and a recent posting on the Rock [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
Next week, Rock Band will be hitting 500 total songs thanks to a dose of No Doubt. (Now known as “Gwen Stefani and some guys.”) The hugely popular 90s rock-pop-ska band will finally be arriving on the Rock Band DLC scene with thirteen tracks from their 2003 album, The Singles 1992-2003, which featured the band’s [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 1, 2008
While we may have mixed feelings about the structuring of Rock Band's latest add-on, we certainly have no issues with getting 20 extra songs for free. As promised back when Rock Band 2 launched, the simple act of purchasing the game entitles you to download an additional 20 songs for your growing library of Rock [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 15, 2008
GameCyte got the band back together for our review of Rock Band 2 from Harmonix and MTV Games. We checked out the new songs, played a couple of battles, and checked out as many new features as we could count, and slowly realized: We're more or less playing an enhanced version of Rock Band 1. But that's all right with us -- We love Rock Band 1.
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 10, 2008
So, in case you've been living under a rock -- a rock with no internet access -- Rock Band 2 is releasing this weekend. Just to keep all virtual virtuosos on the edges of their drumming seats, Harmonix and MTV Games reminded us all today that the game has officially shipped out, and you'll be [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
Harmonix and MTV Games have confirmed which songs Rock Band players will be able to export from the original disc into Rock Band 2 as DLC. Until now, the companies have merely promised that we would be able to export "most of" the original disc library, and that much appears to be true; players will [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 28, 2008
Harmonix knew we needed a little cheering up after yesterday's news that Rush's "Moving Pictures" wouldn't be out this week after all, so they've gone ahead and announced all six of the full albums they promised to confirm this month. Spotted over at Kotaku, MTV Games spilled the news to Entertainment Weekly in a large [...]
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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