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News: Dhani Harrison helping with RB controllers
Dhani Harrison, son of George Harrison, has said he is helping to produce ambitious new controllers for Rock Band. I'm working on Rock Band and making the controllers more real so people can actually learn how to play music while playing the game. Give me a couple years, it's going to happen,...
Tuesday, Oct 27
News: Daltrey stirs Rock Band Who talk
Roger Daltrey has suggested that his band The Who is to get a Rock Band special edition next year. Asked about The Beatles: Rock Band by Massachusetts paper The Republican (thanks, Joystiq), the old hellraiser said, "The game, yeah, yeah, they're going to be doing a Who one next year. There i...
Tuesday, Oct 20
News: Rock Band available on App Store
Has multiplayer. Costs six pounds. Music trio EA, Harmonix and MTV have launched the iPhone version of Rock Band on the App Store. The game costs £5.99, and brings Bluetooth band multiplayer to the iPhone for the first time. Up to four people can play together, tapping along to tunes.
News: Abbey Road out now for Beatles RB
Abbey Road, the first full album to be released as downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band, is released today on Xbox Live and at the Wii Shop. It will appear on PS3 with Thursday's PSN update. MTV and Harmonix have announced the pricing and pack details for the various downloads avai...
Thursday, Oct 15
News: LEGO Rock Band dated for November
The music game will be available on DS, PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360. Traveller's Tales, developer of LEGO Star Wars et al, has smeared the Rock Band licence with the usual charm and humour, although the tracklist is shorter than normal at 45 songs.
Friday, Oct 9
News: Sales will determine Beatles DLC plan
Every time we do one song, it's not like Rock Band where we wait for the masters to come in and just author them... It's like, send people to Abbey Road, use the original tape, separate them out... it costs thousands of dollars," the developer's communications manager, John Drake, told BBPS (than...
Saturday, Sep 5
Review: The Beatles: Rock Band
How times have changed. Billions of dollars and tens of millions of game sales later, master recordings are the standard rather than the aspiration, and recording artists increasingly find themselves legitimately labelled "As made famous by Guitar Hero", or "As made famous by Rock Ban...
Monday, Jul 20
Opinion: News: Make, sell Rock Band songs on 360
You'll need a copy of the game, XNA Creators Club Premium (USD 99 a year), Reaper and Magma programs as well as an Xbox Live Gold account. Tracks created will need to meet certain Harmonix specifications and be kitted out with MIDI gameplay elements before being submitted for peer review.
Wednesday, May 13
Review: Rock Revolution
Unlike other, better music games, Rock Revolution doesn't have its own set of instruments. You can buy a special drum kit for it in the States, but that doesn't appear to be available here. The good news is you can use Guitar Hero and Rock Band controllers to play the game instead. The bad news is...
