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Sunday, Apr 12
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12
Check out Cena’s Corner store 2.0. Now with 100% more Zazzle! http://is.gd/rPop # Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy album coming to Rock Band as DLC next week http://tiny.cc/e7xAN # About to learn how to scratch at a Rhythm Heaven DS event. # Guitar Hero Smash Hits trailer reveals partial setlist...
Saturday, Mar 28
New CEO at RecOctane = Trouble in Paradise?
For quite some time now Activision has been telling the gaming world that the Guitar Hero titles are outselling Rock Band by a huge margin. Those statements have been met with a good deal of skepticism, and no small amount of speculation, by the Rhythm Gaming community. Some people believe t...
Friday, Mar 27
Rock Band DLC Week of 3/31; Don’t Stop Believing That SpongeBob Is Making His Rock Band Debut! Plus Journey, Pat Benatar Too
When it comes to DLC the good folks over at Harmonix sometimes throw in a little something special for the kid in all of us. Or at least for the kid that lives in your house. This time it’s three SpongeBob Square Pants tracks! Read the rest of Rock Band DLC Week of 3/31; Don’t Stop Believing That Sp...
Thursday, Mar 19
NYC Events: Pearl Jam “Ten” Rock Band 2 DLC Release Party
Come be among the first to experience Pearl Jam’s 1991 debut album Ten as playable content for the MTV Games/Harmonix music video games Rock Band® and Rock Band 2®. With classic hits such as “Jeremy”, “Even Flow”, “Black”, and “Alive”, which is already featured on the Rock Band 2® disc, Ten...
Friday, Mar 13
Rock Band DLC Week of 3/17/09: Get the Funk Out, Papa Roach, New Pornographers, Against Me!
Amazon.com Widgets MTV Games and Harmonix have just announced the first Rock Band DLC pack in the funk category, with tracks by James Brown, Average White Band, and Earth, Wind & Fire. As if this weren’t enough, we’re also getting five additional tracks (for a total of eight new songs) f...
Saturday, Feb 14
Harrah’s and MTV Partner to Offer Rock Band Nights at Casinos
This news may be helpful for those of you in other parts of the country who have been aching for a Rock Band night but can’t make it to New York City. Harrah’s Entertainment and MTV will be offering Rock Band nights at 16 of Harrah’s casino properties, including Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and...
Tuesday, Feb 10
Snoop Dogg Coming to Rock Band
New York, NY – February TK, 2009 – MTV and icon, record producer, entrepreneur and actor, Snoop Dogg today announced a first-of-its kind global deal that will bring the entertainers’ personality to television in a new variety talk show, “Dogg After Dark,” and his music to fans with a new a...
Tuesday, Jan 13
Store all your Rock Band gear with style
Finally, someone has come up with a classy way to store all of your Rock Band gear. Most of us have heard people complain about the huge amount of space that Rock Band gear (and Guitar Hero World Tour for that matter) takes up. Thankfully, some wily entrepreneurs at AK Designs have found a wa...
Sunday, Jan 4
Give your Rock Band accessories a makeover
Looking for ways to add more fun to your Rock Band jam sessions? We’ve added a few new goodies to our Rock Band gear that we like so we’re here to let you in on some of our little secrets. We tried the Rock Band Jam Kit from BD&A, and the Rock Band Cymbal Expansion from [...]
Monday, Nov 3
Why Guitar Hero and Activision Lost the Beatles War to MTV and Rock Band
Earlier in the year, there were rumors that both companies were in talks to nab the Fab Four’s great works. Sony/ATV chairman and CEO Marty Bandier mentioned in March that they were interesed in looking into Guitar Hero. Apparently, it was Activision’s deal to lose. Speaking of his t...
Tuesday, Aug 12
Opinion: Gold Stars for “Seven” in Rock Band 2
According to the mathmatically talented folks over at Scorehero.com and their calculations, the song “Seven” by Vagiant in Rock Band is technically impossible to drum your way to a Gold Star score. “Seven” as well as several other songs in the game have been identified as either...
Thursday, May 22
Rock Band’s UK Commercial vs. Guitar Hero WT Game Trailer
The folks across the pond have been waiting ever so patien.. well, maybe not so patiently, but waiting nonetheless for their chance at channeling their inner Rock Gods. With the release of Rock Band (Xbox only) in the UK this week, let the advertising blitz begin. We also got the announcement yesterday for Guitar [...]
Friday, May 16
Rock Band DLC 5/20/08 European Tracks
Once again proving true to their word of releasing new songs every week, Rock Band announces this week’s downloadable goodies. From our pal HMXSean on the RB forums: Hey everybody, its that time again. Next week for DLC we have the tracks from the European release of Rock Band. All tracks are...
Tuesday, Apr 22
Guitar Hero to Become Rock Band Hero?
Conde Nast: Guitar Hero is huge—with more than $1 billion in sales since it was introduced in 2005. Essentially, it lets people play along on a fake guitar to real songs. Given that the Universal Music Group is part of Vivendi, ...
Friday, Feb 29
RockGamer.com Review: Mega Pedal for Rock Band drum pedal
For those of you who have already had the problem of your Rock Band drum pedal snapping in half right in the middle of your best shot at Gold Starring “Run to the Hills”, you know how frustrating it is that the pedal is made of plastic and somewhat poorly designed. We recently had the [...] For those of you who have already had the problem of your Rock Band drum pedal snapping in half right in the middle of your best shot at Gold Starring “Run to the Hills”, you know how frustrating it is that the pedal is made of plastic and somewhat poorly designed. We recently had the pleasure of testing an aftermarket product called Mega Pedal and our experience was a good one (mostly anyway).
