When GameCyte broke the news Thursday that the makers of Rock Band were under legal fire for producing flimsy plastic drum pedals, we expected that Harmonix and company would realize the value in keeping such matters relatively quiet so as not to spark any online ire. Faced with the likely choice between hearing “We do [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 20, 2008
You can’t throw around $300 million dollar bonuses without someone noticing. Tuesday, alleging that the creators of popular music game Rock Band had shipped defective drum pedals in a scheme “designed to deliberately cheat large numbers of consumers out of individually small sums of money,” lawyers for Kansas resident Monte Morgan slapped all four — Harmonix, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 6, 2008
I got mine! Harmonix and MTV Games have finally started sending out the download codes for the 20 free bonus tracks they promised to all owners of Rock Band 2. After dating those downloads for November 4th, and then experiencing a brief snafu in getting the content online, those codes are now finding their way [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 3, 2008
See, Bobby? We told you this would happen. In the ongoing music licensing battle between Harmonix/MTV and Activision/Red Octane, last week saw an impressive “get” for the former camp, when it was announced that Harmonix and MTV had secured the exclusive rights to create a Beatles music game. During the initial conference, neither Harmonix nor [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 30, 2008
The rumors have been swirling about for quite a while now, and while preliminary confirmations had already been spotted by clever investigators over at Joystiq, MTV hosted a joint conference call with Apple Corps, Ltd. to simultaneously confirm and dash our hopes. Officially announcing one of the most impressive “gets” in the music-game licensing war, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Rock Band enthusiasts, the wait is nearly over: Very soon, your copy of Rock Band 2 will come with as many tracks as it says it does on the box! Today, Harmonix and MTV Games sent us a press release, confirming the 20 post-launch downloadable tracks that every owner of Rock Band 2 is entitled [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
Though Xbox 360 owners have been enjoying Harmonix and MTV Games’ ubiquitous music title since mid-September, the timed exclusivity of Rock Band 2 is just about to expire. MTV and Harmonix issued a press release this morning, confirming to eager PS3 owners that their shredding sequel is still on track for its October 19th release [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 6, 2008
Remember how excited we all got when MTV Games and Harmonix announced that the new Rock Band website would be going live in a week? The promise of real-life merchandise, featuring your very own band members, was a feature we’d been looking forward to since our E3 preview. Of course, the promised week went by [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 1, 2008
We’ve been a little rough on the upcoming release of AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band Track Pack, a physical disc which will contain 18 tracks from AC/DC for standalone play and/or export into the main Rock Band game. As excited as we are to play more AC/DC in our rock simulators, we’ve taken issue with a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Yesterday, when we had a few dubious words to say about the upcoming AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band Track Pack from Harmonix and MTV Games, a fair portion of our assessment was based on conjecture. We made a few guesses about the game’s functionality and feature list, so we couldn’t deliver a concrete judgement at the [...]
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Monday, November 24, 2008
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