rock band

press release

Rock Band and games like it have taken the gaming industry by storm. You need to have lived in a hole or under a rock (and a large, sound proof rock at that) for the past several years to have missed it. Rock Band quickly forged it’s own genre in the video game industry [...]

gamasutra

Viacom, Electronic Arts and the Rock Band franchise have settled a 2008 patent suit with Gibson Guitar Corp, and the parties will seek a dismissal. The guitar manufacturer had alleged that the Rock Band games which Viacom’s Harmonix develops and EA distributes, violate its 1999 patent related to simulating rock concerts.
Guitar Hero house Activision has [...]

news.bbc.co.uk

Rock band Keane have said that the Conservative Party did not seek their permission to use one of their hits at their election manifesto launch. Band member Richard Hughes wrote on Twitter he was “horrified” to hear 2004 song Everybody’s Changing played.
David Bowie’s song Changes was also played at the Tory launch……
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news.cnet

Announced Tuesday at the start of the Game Developers Conference, Power Gig: Rise of the SixString is a novel approach to the well-trod music game genre. Instead of using plastic simulations of guitars that are essentially just dressed-up plastic game controllers, the game uses fully functional six-string guitars that control the game, but can also [...]

techdirt

You may remember that Warner Music Group’s CEO, Edgar Bronfman Jr., has been beating the drum for a while that video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band should be paying more to use songs in those games. This, despite the fact that having a song in those games helps sell more albums. It’s the [...]

prefixmag

In a sweet move by Harmonix and Electronic Arts, those companies are establishing a method for any band, signed or unsigned, to upload their songs for inclusion in Rock Band. After uploading the song and having it converted into Rock Band format, it would be made available for users to download at price points from [...]

wsj

MTV Games is hoping to goose sales of its flagging “Rock Band” series with a new service Tuesday that lets average users upload and sell videogame versions of their own music.
The service, known as the Rock Band Network Store, may offer a few minutes of fame to rudimentary garage bands by allowing millions of game [...]

press release

Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks, today announced that Rock Band now has more than 1,000 songs available for consumers to play within the Rock Band Music platforms for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system [...]

hypebot

Making your music available on Rock Band is about to get a lot easier as the game maker nears its launch of its Rock Band Network. Details are still a little sketchy, but we do know that you’ll be able to use their tools to author playable tracks and submit them for review by [...]

mashable

For as long as we can remember, Tap Tap Revenge has dominated in Apple’s iTunes App Store, with Tap Tap Revenge 3 currently toping the charts.
Its time may have come. EA Games, maker of the popular Rock Band game for consoles, may have previously been hush-hush about an official Rock Band iPhone/iPod Touch game, but [...]

lounge.sonicbids

Well…almost.
When I played Rock Band the first time on my friend’s Xbox 360, I was completely addicted, but sort of jealous. I remember saying to my buddy while rockin’ out on the drums: “I wish you could play my band’s songs in this game!”
In a couple of months, this is going to be possible for [...]

Alex Pham
latimes

The Guitar Hero and Rock Band video games have become huge hits, generating $1.6 billion in North American sales last year from players who love jamming along with music legends. But now customers may be singing an old blues classic: “The Thrill Is Gone.”
After surging 68% in 2008, sales of music games are expected [...]

bbc.co.uk

The achievement makes the rock band one of the top five album chart acts of all time, says the Official Chart Company.
U2 are joint third along with Madonna and the Rolling Stones, but Elvis Presley and The Beatles still have more UK number one albums to their credit.
In the singles chart, US rapper Flo Rida [...]

Rock Band currently has a catalog of roughly 600 songs between the first and second games, DLC and AC/DC track pack. But MTV wants more. A lot more.
A Billboard report (via GameDaily) discussing the impact of music games on the video game industry has MTV suggesting that they would like to make 5000 songs available [...]

If you haven’t played Guitar Hero or Rock Band yet, you should stop reading this, and head out to invest in one of these game systems. Why? They allow a relatively talentless guy (like me) make, or pretend to make, real music.
Sure, right now the selections are mostly classic and modern rock. There’s no [...]

There is a poster outside The Rex on Queen St. W. that advertises the jazz club as a place to “Come see Guitar Heroes that can actually play guitar.” Long a bastion of great live jazz bands, the bar’s ad raises the lingering sentiment that the incredible popularity of music/rhythm games like Rock Band and [...]