Rock Band fans - we need your input. RockGamer.com is sending a few ace reporters to Pax at the end of this month and we’d like to get an idea of the burning questions you still have about Rock Band 2 or Harmonix in general that you haven’t seen answered yet.
We’ll take those directly to the top and then report back to you with the news! Just post your question in the comments section so we can make a list. We’ll get as many of them answered as we can - even if it means holding someone hostage at plastic gunpoint.
We even have prizes to give away to the folks who come up with the most questions that make it onto our final list. So post away!!
Having a hard time recognizing some of the announced songs for the upcoming Rock Band 2? Well, September is around the corner — and so is Battle of the Bands mode — so you better start doing your homework boys and girls!
Fear not. RockGamer.com has compiled a handy one-stop tool where you can preview every song shipping with the Harmonix sequel. Now get crackin’!
I am not really a fan of this “nibble nibble” form of receiving the GHWT setlist that’s going on, where we keep hearing bits and pieces through Stuff Mag, Tool Website, PS3 articles, etc. I’d much rather just wait and get ONE announcement from Activision of the entire setlist so I can sit down and chew through that.
However, one of the “leaked” setlists has seen a striking number of its predictions confirmed through one source or another, so it’s gaining credibility as the announcements gain speed. Therefore, we’re going to provide that list, as well as the sources of confirmation, just in case it happens to end up being true. If it is true, it’s one hell of a list! Thanks to the ga-forums for originally compiling all of this and keeping up with the sources. We’ve added a few more of our own as well.
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“Kids are playing Rolling Stones, parents are playing All American Rejects….”, explains John Drake, PR Coordinator from Harmonix, referring to how different generations of people are learning about new music thanks to their hit game Rock Band. “Cats and dogs, living together…Mass hysteria!”, Jen thinks, remembering that line from Ghostbusters, as she watches John being interviewed on G4 by Adam Sessler.
Take a gander at the interview, watch Sean Baptiste, Community Manager, do double duty on bass and vocals as Billy Idol on “White Wedding” and keep your eyes and ears open to catch the screen shots in the background of the group playing in a Battle of the Bands score duel competition.
Warner Music fired a shot at MTV and Activision, saying that it may pull out of both the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises. Edgar Bronfman of WMG is saying that they aren’t getting their fair share of sales, but Activision was quick to fire back.
An article coming from the Financial Times quoted Activision’s CEO Robert Kotick saying “I think his view was … that [Warner Music] should be compensated the way they might for a performance on iTunes. But, this is an entirely different business [than iTunes] that is very technically complex. We’re going to favor those publishers that recognize and appreciate how much we can add value to their artists.”
A Warner Music spokesman said the company had “enormous respect” for the investment and creativity game-publishers had brought to the music-gaming business.
He added: “We hope that our partners in the gaming space appreciate not only the value of their own contributions but also those of the recording artists, songwriters, record labels and music publishers on which their games are significantly based.”
How come the benjamins always seem to get in the way of the fans? Warner’s catalog includes Led Zeppelin, R.E.M., The B-52s, Green Day, and Depeche Mode. Look at DragonForce album sales before and after Guitar Hero III and tell me it’s not worth it!
G4 has an exclusive story with breaking Rock Band news! According to their story, they’ve spoken with PR coordinator John Drake. Certainly we already knew that Harmonix’s extensive DLC catalog would be at 500 by the end of the year, but we are excited to hear that we’ll have a new album coming out in the next 16 days!!
Here are all the reported tidbits they picked up:
This week’s Rock Band DLC has been announced and flash back to the 80’s my friends. There’s a double dose of Duran2, some re-recorded master Devo tunes and a track by The Janitors on the cheap.
TRACKS:
- Devo - “Girl U Want” (new original recording) - 160 MSP - $1.99
- Devo - “Through Being Cool” (new original recording) - 160 MSP - $1.99
- Duran Duran - “Girls on Film” - 160 MSP - $1.99
- Duran Duran - “Rio” - 160 MSP - $1.99
- The Janitors - “Get Your Rock On” - 80 MSP - $0.99
All tracks are masters.
We’ll get the MP3 and video previews posted asap on our DLC central page. Check back often.
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 impossible to Gold Star on drums and/or on guitar so we spoke with Helen McWilliams, lead singer/guitarist for Vagiant, as well as Harmonix Spokesperson-With-The-Most-Flair for the scoop.
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