heroine-sheik.com - 27 days ago
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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 ...
thekartel.com - 10/23/2009
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thekartel.com —
While Viacom, the owner of the Rock Band
game series, has been vocal in touting impressive sales...
numbers for the hit music game, what seemed to have been completely glanced over was a recent report by Credit Suisse which indicates that the game series simply has not been profitable since day one.
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Rock Band series remains unprofitable to date
gamesindustry.biz - 21 days ago
g4tv.com - 29 days ago
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g4tv.com —
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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Roger Daltrey Hints A Music Game Based On The Who
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Beatles: Rock Band And The Female Gaze
GayGamer.net —
... Bonnie Ruberg, of Heroine Sheik, recently posited some of her thoughts concerning Beatles: Rock Band and some differences that struck her. Namely, that of not being able to select a female avatar and clad her in suggestive, skimpy clothing, and that of the audience: ...
The Week In Video Game Criticism: The Beatles, Torchlight, Prince Of Persia
GameSetWatch —
... Bonnie Ruberg talks about ‘The Beatles Rock Band and the female gaze’, discussing who the player is positioned as during a game of The Beatles: Rock Band. A nice counterpart to last week’s piece on the game as ‘non-fiction’, and I think the two support each others argument quite nicely. Ruberg asks: ...
‘Beatles: Rock Band’ and the female gaze
GoNintendo —
... releases of the year. It’s a very well made package, and if you get the right group of people together, you can really have a lot of fun with it. That goes for both males and females alike.
The thing is, when you start to pick apart the game, you may notice that the presentation is a bit more geared towards females than males. It’s almost as if the viewing/playing audience is taking that of a female perspective without even knowing it.
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