Tag: ROCKBAND

Do you love The Beatles? Do you love 'Rock Band?' Are you ready to totally lose it? If you said yes, that's good -- because MTV Games and Harmonix have just announced a partnership with Apple Corps, Ltd. to bring the band's music and instruments to the 'Rock Band' universe. According to the PR, the game (which apparently lets you do all kinds of awesome Beatles-related rocking) will also premiere ...

In an attempt to attract youngsters, employees of one Nebraska public library recently instituted a gaming workshop, until, that is, constroversy paralyzed the effort. One local taxpayer caught wind of the Omaha librarians' unorthodox event via the above video, which shows the librarians playing the game 'Rock Band' in what appears to be the library's study room. The librarians had posted the ...

If you love blowing money on gambling and playing 'Rock Band,' March is going to be, like, the best month ever. Casino chain Harrah's is inviting gamers to come and rock (virtually) at 17 of its locations in the US and Canada. The Total Rock, Total Rewards Rock Band Competition is sponsored by MTV Games and begins in March. The weekly competitions will be free to enter. In April, four regional ...

Apparently perturbed by the success of games like 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band,' Oasis's Noel Gallagher recently told Total Guitar magazine that "playing a guitar is not a f**king videogame," CVG reported yesterday. The lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the seminal Britpop band (and one half of the most hilariously cantankerous pair of British brothers known to man) is not known for ...

According to Electronic Entertainment Design and Research's "November 2008 Retail Sales Preview" report, the popularity of Guitar Hero is peaking. Predicting a sales decline of more than 50 percent from 'Guitar Hero 3' to 'World Tour' this month (and following a decline of 60 percent in October), it's expected that the game will begin a slow but steady decline in the months and years ahead. ...

A recent survey conducted by retail giant Guitar Center found that the games 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' are encouraging players to pick up and learn how to play real instruments, reports Game Daily. According to the survey of 7,000 gamers, 67 percent of those who do not play an instrument plan to learn and 72 percent of those who already play an instrument play more frequently due to the ...

You don't need to be Guitar Hero to make some money. Take, for instance, Electronic Arts' 'Rock Band' -- a game made by original 'Guitar Hero' creators, Harmonix Music Systems. According to Viacom's (parent of Harmonix's owner, MTV Networks) Securities and Exchanges filing, the Boston-based developer will be receiving a $300+ million dollar bonus. $150 million was already paid last quarter, and ...

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 ...

Girls can, like, totally rock now, but they've had to use boy-aimed guitar peripherals when playing games like 'Rock Band.' Thankfully, PDP has teamed up with Radio Disney mainstays Aly & AJ to create some seriously rockin' game controllers for the PlayStation2 and Wii. Due out mid-October and priced at a rockin' $69.99, tweenage 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' fans can choose either the ...

While there's likely nothing that will convince most folks of the merits of a full-size, $180 wooden guitar controller, those still on the fence about this particular piece of excess may be interested to know that the good people of PS3 Fanboy recently got their hands on one, and they've now offered up some initial impressions. As you might expect, they found it to definitely be a hefty device, ...

Last weekend at the New American Music Union Festival in Pittsburgh, PA, Bob Dylan took to the stage and soon found himself competing with another 'band.' For reasons we can't quite comprehend, several boys had apparently set up a pretty serious gaming rig less than 50 yards from Dylan's stage. According to the New York Daily News, the troublemakers jammed out to a boisterous game of 'Rock ...

What more is there to say? Rush tries to get down with 'Rock Band' backstage at the 'Colbert Report.' The results are simultaneously hilarious and sad as the legendary Canadian rockers struggle to keep up with their own hit single. Of course, this confirms what we and Slash of Guns N' Roses have been saying all along, 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' are nothing like the real thing. [Source: Boing ...

We've done the roundup treatment for the big three (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft) at this year's E3 video game show. Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have each had their turn to toot their own horns, and now it's time for the publishers to have their say. Yes, these are the third-party developers that are responsible for much of the flood of actual games that will be hitting the various consoles ...

Alright, this is getting a little silly. First it was Gibson claiming that Rock Band and Guitar Hero violated a patent covering "simulating a musical performance," and now Konami is suing Harmonix, Viacom, and MTV Game because Rock Band allegedly violates a similar set of patents covering "simulated musical instruments" and "musical rhythm-based matching games." Filed in good ol' Marshall, the ...

While the original 'Rock Band' is still going strong, Harmonix is already looking towards the next bit of kit that it hopes will be cluttering your place, with it now getting official with Rock Band 2 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. This time around, it seems the Xbox 360 will be getting a jump on things with a launch in September, with the PS3 version set to follow "later in the year." ...