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, 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...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Now, while you’re not obligated to eat anything from McDonald’s and get your Fender all greasy, the fast-food folks are the ones making it possible for you to buy some Rock Band DLC on the cheap this month. McDonald’s, Harmonix, and MTV Games are collaborating to put eight songs from the existing Rock Band DLC [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 5, 2008
While the PS2 and Wii versions of Rock Band may be horribly gimped compared to their properly networked, digital-delivery-enhanced brethren, that doesn’t mean Harmonix isn’t planning to sell you albums worth of extra content. Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 will be the game’s first physically-distributed expansion pack, and should arrive in stores July 15th.
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Anything Guitar Hero III can do, Rock Band can do better? This week’s Rock Band DLC includes an all-new single from Motley Crüe, “Saints of Los Angeles,” making its debut inside a video game.
Continue reading...Friday, April 11, 2008
Wednesday morning, GameCyte attended a panel on mainstream gaming at the 2008 MI6 conference in San Francisco. Read on to see how the the Rock Band marketers of the future will be competing for your attentions.
Continue reading...Friday, March 28, 2008
Variety is reporting that Paramount, a subsidiary of Viacom, is set to begin publishing games, particularly low-budget portable titles, later this year:
Continue reading...Monday, March 24, 2008
This June 22nd, barring sudden legal action on the patent 405 incident, Nintendo’s family friendly Wii can play finally play host to 2007’s smash hit Rock Band.
Continue reading...Friday, March 21, 2008
Gibson Guitar claims that Guitar Hero and Rock Band infringe upon their intellectual property, and they are determined to fight tooth and nail to protect it, even when it seems quite apparent they have very little ground to stand on.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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