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10 hit singles from Queen coming to Rock Band
Fans of the popular English rock band Queen will be happy to hear that Harmonix is gearing up to add 10 of their songs to the Music Store for use with Rock Band.
The 10 songs that are coming, sometime towards the end of October, are listed below:
- Another One Bites The Dust
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- One Vision
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- I Want It All
- I Want to Break Free
- Killer Queen
- Somebody to Love
- Tie Your Mother Down
- Under Pressure
If you’re a fan of classic rock, this pack is sure to please you.
via Destructoid
Breaking Benjamin, Alice in Chains, more coming to Rock Band next week
Today we have learned of what will be coming with next week’s Rock Band Music Store update including tracks from both Alice in Chains and Breaking Benjamin. Below is the full list of tracks that will be available for Rock Band 2 on September 29th for the Wii and 360 and October 1st for the PS3:
· Alice in Chains – “A Looking in View”
· Alice in Chains – “Check My Brain”
· Alice in Chains – “No Excuses”
· Alice in Chains – “Rooster”
· Alice in Chains – “Would?”
· Breaking Benjamin – “I Will Not Bow”
· Breaking Benjamin – “So Cold”
· Breaking Benjamin – “The Diary of Jane”
· Just Kait – “U Suck” *
· Kula Shaker – “Hey Dude”
· Kula Shaker – “Knight on the Town”
As for a price, well you’re looking at purchasing the whole thing as the Alice in Chains Pack 01 for $9.49/680 Microsoft points for the PS3 and 360 respectively or as single tracks for $1.99/160 Microsoft Points/200 Wii Points for the PS3/360/Wii respectively.
via destructoid
Rock Band DLC 7/28: Blink-182, Weezer, Kiss
Yesterday, Harmonix released the master list for the Rock Band DLC to be released this Tuesday for the Xbox 360 and Thursday for the PlayStation 3. Included in the list are the recently revived Blink-182, which will be coming to my city very soon. Weezer and Kiss will also be joining the roster.
- Blink-182 “Down”
- Blink-182 “Feeling This”
- Blink-182 “The Rock Show”
- Damone “Out Here All Night”
- KISS “100,000 Years (Live)”
- KISS “Deuce (Live)”
- KISS “Parasite (Live)”
- Weezer “My Name is Jonas”
- Weezer “Pork and Beans”
- Weezer “Undone – The Sweater Song”
Make the jump for the Wii and PSP tracks.
LEGO Rock Band teaser trailer
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con has launched, and with it comes loads of trailers. Today we bring you a LEGO Rock Band teaser, complete with ridiculous puns like “Build Your Band”. No gameplay footage was available, so I still won’t be able to know if the frets are going to be LEGO blocks.
The details for the game are quite odd, giving players the ability to “destroy giant robots with killer riffs”. If you’re looking for a true Rock Band title, this probably won’t be your cup of tea; most of the tracks are geared for a younger audience.
LEGO Rock Band is scheduled for a November 30th release for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Nintendo DS.
Second Beatles Rock Band trailer hits web
A second trailer for the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band has hit the web. The trailer doesn’t give much except for music, which is the main reason anyone would want to buy the game. A good few tracks are demonstrated, along with members of the band in Rock Band art style.
I am impressed with how they recreated some of the music videos. But I think I would rather have the actual video playing in the background instead of some 3D models.
The Beatles: Rock Band is scheduled for an international release on September 9th for the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii systems.
Rock Band Network to allow user-created music
Harmonix is proud to announce that later this year they will be launching for the Xbox 360 (PS3 and Wii support at a later date) what they are calling the Rock Band Network. If you’re familiar with Apple’s App Store, this is the same kind of thing.
The Rock Band Network will allow users to upload and price their own tracks which can then be downloaded by anyone with the game. Users are said to be able to price the tracks between 50 cents and $3 while getting 30% of the track sales.
This is great news for up and coming artists looking to reach a wider audience. But the question remains, will the Rock Band Network catch on like similar services or will it be met with lackluster interest? Only time will tell.
You can check out the service in more detail, here.
via Kotaku
Warped Tour, Maroon 5 hitting Rock Band
With the weekend here, Harmonix sent out the list of songs that we will be rocking out to in Rock Band next week. They will release two packs – one from the gnarly Warped Tour festival, and the other by the decidedly mellow Maroon 5.
Warped Tour Pack
A Day to Remember – "The Downfall of Us All"
Bad Religion – "21st Century Digital Boy"
Chiodos – "I didn’t Say I Was Powerful, I said I was a Wizard"
Escape the Fate – "The Flood"
Underoath – "Reinventing Your Exit"
Maroon 5 Pack
Maroon 5 – "Little of Your Time"
Maroon 5 – "Makes Me Wonder"
Maroon 5 – "Wake Up Call"
All the songs are original master recordings and will cost the usual $1.99 (160 MS points) apiece. The packs can be had for $8.49 (680 points) and $5.49 (440 points) for Warped Tour and Maroon 5, respectively.
Expect these to hit Xbox Live on Tuesday and PlayStation Network two days later.
Rockband Unplugged hits shelves
If you’ve been looking to get your mobile Rock Band on today is your lucky day – Harmonix and MTV games have recently released a press releasing stating Rock Band Unplugged has hit North American shelves everywhere.
Priced at $39.99, Rock Band Unplugged will allow players the chance to rock through 41 different songs (with 9 of those available on the PSN) using the PSP.
Unfortunately (or maybe I should so fortunately?) there is no instrument peripheral that serves as a controller for the game; you’re going to be using the PSP’s built in controls for this one.
Get free Rock Band songs with Pepsi
Pepsi has started a new promotion which gives consumers a chance to win prizes associated with Rock Band. The “Drink Up, Rock Out” promotion gives you the chance to win Rock Band 2 Special Edition bundles, tracks, Xbox 360 consoles, and more. If you so happen to drink a Pepsi, look under the cap for a code and enter it on the official website.
If soda drinking isn’t your cup of tea, you can always enter the video contest and make your own Rock Band music video for a chance at an MTV Video Music Award Moonman. More details about the sweepstakes can be found on the official website.
via GameSpot
Rock Band Unplugged song list and DLC unveiled
Does your PSP still work? Do you know where it is? OK good because Harmonix has recently announced the entire song list set to appear in their upcoming PSP title Rock Band Unplugged. 50 songs spanning from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s are all included in the list which is viewable after the break.
Harmonix also went ahead and announced that there will be an additional 10 songs made available for download right when the game ships.
Rock Bang unplugged will hit store shelves on June 9th for $39.99. Will this be enough to make gamers blow the dust off the PSP and forgive it for its poor library of games? Probably not, but this game will most likely keep you occupied on the bus, or train, or anywhere else.
Ferdinand, “Smooth Criminal” Make it to Rock Bands
In more music news, a whopping ten new tracks will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Rock Band and its sequel next week.
There are three songs from Franz Ferdinand, two from The Allman Brothers Band and a classic from Alien Ant Farm, among others.
- Franz Ferdinand – "Take Me Out"
- Franz Ferdinand – "Do You Want To"
- Franz Ferdinand – "Lucid Dreams"
- Alien Ant Farm – "Smooth Criminal"
- The Allman Brothers Band – "Blue Sky"
- The Allman Brothers Band – "Midnight Rider"
- The Distillers – "Drain the Blood"
- Luscious Jackson – "Naked Eye"
- Prong – "Idealistic Types"
- Prong – "The Banishment"
As expected, Xbox 360 owners can expect it on Tuesday, while PS3 owners will have to wait till Thursday. Individual songs cost 160 Microsoft points ($2); the Ferdinand songs will be available in a three-pack bundle offering a 50 cent savings in the grand scheme of things.
Jane’s Addiction is Rock Band
Alternative rockers Jane’s Addiction’s 1988 album “Nothing’s Shocking” is set to become next week’s Rock Band downloadable content.
The 10-track album will come with all songs except “Mountain Song”, which is already on the Rock Band 2 disc.
The album can be had for 1280 points ($16) or individual songs for 160 points ($2).
- "Up the Beach"
- "Ocean Size"
- "Had a Dad"
- "Ted, Just Admit It…"
- "Standing in the Shower… Thinking"
- "Summertime Rolls"
- "Idiots Rule"
- "Jane Says"
- "Thank You Boys"
- "Pig’s in Zen"
First Beatles: Rock Band Footage Released
Rabid fans of The Beatles have been waiting for a glimpse of the upcoming Rock Band game, but so far they’ve been denied of the pleasure to do so. However, Paul McCartney’s performance at Coachella this past Friday was the first to debut in-game footage from The Beatles: Rock Band.
"It was a night of firsts and was the unexpected, unannounced world premiere of the images from the coming Beatle Rock Band game which played on vast screens throughout Got To Get You Into My Life," reads McCartney’s website.
Jump over to 1:30 in the video below for the first look at the game, which is due out on September 9 on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.
Chinese Democracy Hitting Rock Band
In keeping with the music news in these parts, developer Harmonix has detailed next week’s batch of downloadable content for the Rock Band platform: the entirety of Guns n’ Roses’ “Chinese Democracy” album.
Thirteen of the album’s tracks will be released as DLC; the fourteenth song is already on the game’s disc.
The full album can be bought for 1600 Microsoft points ($20) or individual tracks for 160 points ($2).
- "Chinese Democracy"
- "Better"
- "Street of Dreams"
- "If the World"
- "There Was a Time"
- "Catcher in the Rye"
- "Scraped"
- "Riad n’ the Bedouins"
- "Sorry"
- "I.R.S."
- "Madagascar"
- "This I Love"
- "Prostitute"
Expect the songs to hit Xbox Live and Wii on April 14, followed by a PS3 release two days later.
Rock Band: Unplugged dated, exclusive track list detailed, bundle announced
The upcoming Rock Band variant for the PSP, Rock Band: Unplugged, will be hitting North American and European stores June 9th. MTV Networks also listed the tracks that will launch with the game that will not be available for other Rock Band titles until later via DLC. The tracks listed are:
- 3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite”
- AFI – “Miss Murder”
- Alice in Chains – “Would?”
- Audioslave – “Gasoline”
- Black Tide – “Show Me the Way”
- Blink 182 – “What’s My Age Again”
- Freezepop – “Less Talk More Rokk”
- Jackson 5 – “ABC”
- Tenacious D – “Rock Your Socks”
Additionally, the portable version will also take advantage of purchasing tracks online. SCEA also plans to release a bundle with a Rock Band branded PSP, which will include the game, a 4GB memory stick, and a voucher to download School of Rock.