Tag: MUSICGAMES

Music is all around us. It drifts in and out of our lives, piped into elevators, blasted through the stereo systems of passing cars, and idly played on our MP3 players as we go about our day. But how engaged are we with it? For something as remarkable as music, it can easily become another part of the auditory static of the everyday. While some people may take for granted the music in video ...

Guitar Praise 'Rocking Jesus' trailer Oh man... we were excited when we first heard about 'Guitar Praise,' but now that we've seen the three-minute over-explanatory trailer, we might just buy two copies, just in case one isn't enough to get us heathens past St. Peter. The 'Guitar Hero' clone features songs from Christian Rock acts like Day of Fire and Family Force 5 (What!? no Stryper?), as ...

After years of negotiations, rumors, and quite probably begging, the Beatles catalog will finally be available for digital download -- but not on iTunes, and we're sure Steve Jobs is none too happy (despite numerous teaser announcements and rumors, the Beatles still aren't on Apple's online music store, or anywhere else online, for that matter). So if not Apple with its iTunes Store, then who's ...

If you're jonesing to get your Rock Band 2 on like we are, you'll be all over these new shots of the game's upcoming controllers that we got all grubby on today at E3. First, the new guitars not only look better, but they will include some welcome hardware tweaks. The new axe includes an optical sensor that will make syncing the game to your display a breeze. Rather than go through that ...

The folks at I Am 8-Bit (you may remember them from such art shows as this one) and a design company called Couch (great name, eh?) have put their collective pixels together to create some nice Space Invader-inspired guitar straps, particularly for those of you with 'Rock Band' and/or 'Guitar Hero' gee-tars. The vinyl strap comes in either blue or black, and will set you back $33, or ...

Now that we live in a world dominated by licensing divisions, nothing is ever freaking sacred. So it's no surprise that MTV and EA will be joining forces with Rhino Entertainment to bring the Grateful Dead to the upcoming megahit video game, 'Rock Band.' The game is essentially a four-person, multiplayer version of the karaoke-esque 'Guitar Hero' that incorporates all the traditional ...

Where, Oh Where, has Masaya Matsuura, the creator of the original music game, 1998's 'PaRappa the Rapper' for the original PlayStation, been? 'PaRappa the Rapper' just came out for the handheld Sony PSP, but Matsuura himself has been busy working on 'Musika,' a new music game-cum-visualizer for your iPod that launched today on iTunes. The game is a slight, iPod-optimized twist on typical ...

Steven Van Zandt, also known as "Little Steven" for his work with Bruce Springsteen's various bands (and, most recently, as Tony's right-hand man "Silvio" on The Sopranos) is getting into video games. Well, music-related video games. The musician-cum-actor-cum-video-game-consultant is chairman of the music committee that's overseeing the tracks to be featured on Rock Band, a highly-anticipated ...