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Rock Band 3 Will Aim To Teach People How To Play Music

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:50:59 +0000

One of the chief complaints about Guitar Hero and Rock Band is that people ought to just learn how to play the real thing. Well, that may actually happen with Rock Band 3. Having previously helped get The Beatles Rock Band off the ground, Dhani Harrison has reportedly stayed on to consult on Rock Band 3. The son of Beatle George Harrison told the Chicago Tribune that he wants to make the controllers "more real" for ...

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Rock Band 3 Will “Actually Teach People to Play”

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:27:00 +0000

Dhani Harrison has been making the interview rounds in support of his band thenewno2, who’s currently on tour in the States opening for Wolfmother. You probably know that the son of Beatle George Harrison was pretty instrumental in getting The Beatles: Rock Band made; he acted as ...

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Rock Band 3 Will Teach People To Play Music For Real

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

In recent interviews, Dhani Harrison, son of Beatle George Harrison, has not only revealed the existence of Rock Band 3 , he's also dropped a tantalizing detail about the gameplay. According to Harrison, Rock Band 3 will teach gamers how to play music "for real" as they go. “I’m working on Rock Band 3 and making the controllers more real so people can actually learn how to play music while playing the game,” Harrison said. “Give me ...

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Lego Rock Band Review

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:57:18 +0000

Rock out with your block out with a music game for all ages.

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How Lego Rock Band Can Turn Kids On to Parents’ Music

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:22:50 +0000

In the old days, kids had to rifle through their parents’ dusty record collection to discover new and dangerous music. Now, they’ve only got to play Lego Rock Band . The new family-friendly rhythm action game from Traveller’s Tales and Harmonix came out Tuesday for the ...

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Possible free Lego Rock Band with $20 Old Navy purchase on Black Friday

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:26:04 +0000

We're going to approach this scanned Old Navy Black Friday ad with as much skepticism as we can muster, both because there are a lot of variables and because we, personally, are trying to convince ourselves not to join the Black Friday crowds at Old Navy, of all places. According to the ...

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The Beatles: Rock Band Not Helping Viacom Profits

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:36:00 +0000

The Beatles: Rock Band might be besting Activision’s Guitar Hero 5 in the sales department, but the interactive love letter to the Fab Four has yet to be profitable for MTV Games’ parent company, Viacom, the GamesIndustry.biz reports. During a conference call, ...

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PS3 Review – DJ Hero

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:16:23 +0000

DJ Hero is Activision’s latest entry into their long-running “Hero” line of rhythm video games. Similar to Guitar Hero, DJ Hero has players tap buttons in time with music notes. But DJ Hero takes things to a different place–that of club/dance music. Does the popular ...

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Geekadelphia To Host Bar Camp Philly After-Party & Fundraiser @ National Mechanics

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:49:34 +0000

BarCamp Philly . It’s next week, Geekadelphia is getting involved, and me and the Geeks simply can’t wait. With the awesome list of attendees , sponsors (sup Indy Hall !), and events planned for Saturday, November 14th, it’s no surprise that the open-format conference is ...

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News: Viacom: Rock Band sales improving, "though not as quickly as we'd like"

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:36:00 +0000

Harmonix and MTV Games owner Viacom has said sales of the Rock Band franchise are improving - though not at a pace that meets expectations. Rock Band hit margins at the company's Media Networks group during its third quarter ended ...

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[Multi] LEGO Rock Band Launches

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:34:29 +0000

MTV Games and WB Interactive Entertainment are proud to announce the launch of LEGO Rock Band . Featuring all of the run of Rock Band with the charm of LEGO characters, LEGO Rock Band brings in 45 "chart-topping songs and classic favorites" that players can rock out to. Fans can extend their ...

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‘Beatles: Rock Band’ and the female gaze

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:00:00 +0000

The Beatles: Rock Band addiction, like all good addictions, has begun with anti-social behavior and healthy dose of cultural critique. Instead of going out with friends this past Saturday night, my husband Scott and I stayed home to crack open our latest purchase. I’ve been a Beatles ...

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Rumor: Roger Daltrey reveals The Who joining together with Rock Band

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:30:05 +0000

If Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, has his facts straight, we could all be windmilling and smashing plastic instruments in a Who-themed Rock Band . Daltrey told The Republican when The Beatles: Rock Band was brought up that "The game, yeah, yeah, they're going to be doing a Who one ...

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Brian O’Halloran for Binge Gamer

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:40:55 +0000

There are many ways we can open our coverage of GameX. We have awesome hands-on pieces with Dante’s Inferno, Bayonetta and even Shaun White’s Snowboarding. We have interviews with Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw (transcription pending, damned Rock Band stage), PMS Clan, half of ...

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PlayStation Store Top Downloads 10/30/09

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:49:28 +0000

Below is a list of the top downloaded items from the PlayStation Store for the week ending October 29th. This week again sees Call of Duty: World at War and Fallout 3 dominate the charts. The number one spot is occupied by the latest COD: WAW Map Pack for the third straight week. Fallout ...

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Roger Daltrey Hints A Music Game Based On The Who

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:11:00 +0000

Rock stars are simultaneously the best and worse sources for early news about music games. They're the best because they often reveal details before anyone else -- that rock and roll spirit is alive and well in the aughts, people; rockers only marginally care about public relations ...

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First thirty: The Beatles: Rock Band (PS3)

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 02:00:39 +0000

The Beatles: Rock Band is a pretty polarizing game. While nobody seems to see it as a bad game, the limitations on it that isolate it from the rest of the Rock Band product line have created some amount of frustration among those who’ve fallen for that Rock Band magic. Then, there are ...

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Tales From the Con: GameX Media Expo 2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:54:13 +0000

Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend the GameX Media Expo at the Greater Philadelphia Convention Center in Oaks PA. For those of you that read my previous coverage of Game Core Con – imagine GameX as Game Core Con’s big brother with all the really cool friends. Don’t get me ...

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Use a real guitar to play Rock Band 2 AND get punched while doing so!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:52:37 +0000

Normally when people mod real instruments for use in music-rhythm games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero , they don't intentionally include the ability for someone else to play along by punching them. For Norway's Morten Skogly, that choice seemed only natural. On his website , you can see ...

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Rockband adds Nirvana and Foo Fighters

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:23:48 +0000

New Nirvana and Foo Fighters are coming to Rock Band on November 3rd! With hit tracks from Nirvana such as “about a girl”, “Blew” and “School” plus hit songs from Foo Fighters “Best of you”, “The Pretender”, “Wheels” and ...

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