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The US PlayStation Store was updated last night with plenty of great offers and new content. There are a ton of games currently on sale to coincide with E3, so now’s a good time to purchase Battlefield Bad Company 2, Assassin’s Creed, Warhawk or Super Street Fighter IV related content.
There’s not a whole lot of new content for PlayStation Plus members, unless you’re keen to pick up the freebies Lilo & Stitch (PS1 title) or Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers. There’s also an inFAMOUS 2 dynamic theme to download that is pretty awesome.
The two items which look the most appealing on this list from my perspective are the demos for El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron and Dungeon Siege III. Both are available to the entire PlayStation community so get downloading to sample these two highly anticipated titles.
There’s also a few HD trailers for games being demoed at E3, including the beautiful-looking Final Fantasy XIII-2.
The talented and fashion conscious Lady Gaga is set to make her debut on Rock Band with a four pack of songs next week.
Lady Gaga Pack 01 will include the popular tracks ‘Bad Romance,’ ‘Just Dance,’ ‘Monster’ and ‘Poker Face.’ Xbox 360 and PS3 Rock Banders will be able to purchase the track pack and the individual tracks but Wii owners will be able to purchase individual tracks only.
Worldwide sales of Harmonix and MTV Games’ The Beatles: Rock Band has passed the 1.7 million mark, according to a report over at the LA Times, after what seems like an incredibly slow start for what was billed as a blockbuster in the music game genre.
MTV Games and Harmonix recently announced that the number of songs now available to owners of Rock Band has crossed the 1000 mark, comprising songs from over 390 artists. Co-founder and CEO of Harmonix Music Systems, Alex Rigopulos said of the momentous achievement:
“When we launched Rock Band two years ago, we made a promise to create a music gaming experience that delivered on a weekly basis more songs and artists than ever imagined.
“We’re extremely proud to pass this remarkable milestone of over 1,000 songs in Rock Band and will continue to innovate and bring more of the best music to Rock Band players all over the world.”
The Rock Band Music Store for the Xbox 360 and PS3 will be updated with a five pack of songs from Talking Heads this week, along with tracks from Avenged Sevenfold, The Jam, Oasis and Rage Against the Machine.
Wii gamers can look forward to tracks from Tom Petty, Billy Idol, Fleetwood Mac and Judas Priest while singles from Guns N’ Roses and Franz Ferdinand will be available for Rock Band Unplugged.
Tom Petty makes his Rock Band debut this week, alongside new tracks from Fleetwood Mac, Billy Idol and Jet which will be available in the Rock Band Music Store this week for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Additional tracks from Foo Fighters, White Zombie and Grateful Dead will be available in the Wii Rock Band Music Store while songs from The Zombies and White Zombie arrive for Rock Band Unplugged.
The Foo Fighters return to Rock Band with a three song pack this week. Singles from Blind Melon, Blur and Kaiser Chiefs will be available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 while new tracks from Gorillaz and Red Hot Chili Peppers will arrive in the Wii Rock Band Music Store.
The Foo Fighter Pack 02 will cost $5.49 or 400 Microsoft Points for the Xbox 360 and PS3 while each track will cost $1.99 or 160 Microsoft Points. Each Wii track will cost $2 or 200 Wii Points. Rock Band Unplugged will also get a few new tracks this week, including Pat Benatar, for $1.99 each.
Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that a Rock Band Metal Track Pack will be available on the 13th of October for the PS3, Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii. The standalone disc will be available at retail for $29.99.
The Metal Track Pack will contain 20 tracks including Godsmack, Children of Bodom, Evile, Judas Priest and Bullet For My Valentine. Six of the on disc tracks are new to Rock Band and will be exclusive to the Metal Track Pack disc for a limited period, after which they will be available as downloadable content on the Rock Band Music Store.
A three song pack from the Gorillaz (the virtual band created by Blur’s Damon Albarn) leads this week’s Rock Band Music Store update. The Band, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane also make their Rock Band debut for the Xbox 360 today and the PS3 on the 13th of August.
The tracks will cost $1.99 or 160 Microsoft Points each, while the Gorillaz Pack 01 will cost $5.49 or 440 Microsoft Points. Gamers will also be able to purchase the Gorillaz tracks individually.
Nyko’s new heavy-duty drum pedal for Rock Band and Guitar Hero is now available in stores for $19.99.
The Metal Pedal is compatible with Rock Band 1 and 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero: Metallica on all consoles. Simply plug the pedal directly into the drum set and you are good to go!
The Metal Pedal is durable thanks to the metal plated exterior while the rubber feet hold the pedal firmly in place and the wide base provides stable footing and consistent response.
The coiled wire ensures your drum set-up is kept tangle free and the pedal also features a unique splitter which allows gamers to play with two pedals at once. Of course it doesn’t hurt that it features an awesome hard rock design too, check out the rest of the pictures after the jump.
Harmonix and MTV Games have let everybody know that their latest addition to the Rock Band franchise, Rock Band 2, will finally be making an appearance in Europe on the PS3, PS2 and Wii.
Rock Band 2, already available on Xbox 360, will be available on March 23rd for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2, while the Wii version will see a release on April 24th.
As a standalone disc, Rock Band 2 will retail for £49.99 on PS3, £29.99 on the PS2 and £39.99 on the Wii, while an ‘Instrument Edition,’ which includes drums, guitar and microphone, will retail for £89.99. Standalone drums will cost £49.99 and standalone guitars will cost £39.99.
If you want the game and the instruments altogether in one package, you’ll have to shell out £119.99 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions, while the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions will go for £109.99.
NPD, the product sales tracker in the US, has revealed that Guitar Hero: World Tour outsold its rival music game, Rock Band 2, by a factor of 2 to 1 in 2008.
World Tour, releasing simultaneously across four platforms in 2008 (Wii, PS2, PS3 and Xbox 360) racked up 3.4 million units in sales, while Rock Band 2, on a staggered release schedule from the middle of September to the middle of December, has sold 1.7 million units.
While these numbers are significant and comprehensive, one must take into account the staggered release of Rock Band 2, as the last two platforms on which it was release were the PS2 and Wii – the two consoles with the largest combined installed base.
To celebrate the release of their new DVD, The Complete Masterworks 2, Tenacious D will be playing Rock Band 2 with Xbox LIVE Gold members on November 20th. What do you need to do to get in on the jam session?
Send a friend request to either of the following Gamertags:
- JBTenacious
- KGTenacious
Then, make sure you’re online at 8:00 PM EST (1:00 AM GMT on November 21st) for the action at 8:30 PM.
If you want in on this event, you’d better send those invites soon! For more information, head on over to the announcement on Xbox.com.
Rock Band, the franchise, is not under threat from the upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour, despite the latter’s music creation feature as well as a full compliment of music instruments this time round.
According to one of the developers at Harmonix, John Drake, “We’ve talked about doing a music creator. We’ve actually done them before in other games that we’ve done like in Amplitude and Frequency…We’ve done the whole MIDI creation thing. We think we can do something really ambitious and really great that’s going to speak across all the users of the game, not just hardcore users.”
It seems, however, that this functionality will have to wait since Rock Band 2 is releasing so soon (September). Drake continued, “So Harmonix is going to do something great with it [the music creator] down the road, we didn’t want to rush it out and do it half-assed. This is definitely a full-on project for us. You’ll hear more about it soon.” Maybe a patch?
In the meantime, have a look at the enormous set-list that will be available with Rock Band 2, out of the box.
Hot on the heels of Sony announcing that all instruments for the PS3 versions of three upcoming music games (Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Revolution) will be compatible, Microsoft has announced that all instruments for upcoming Xbox 360 rhythm games will be compatible too.
In a post on the Gamerscoreblog, Microsoft stated “All the instruments from Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and Rock Revolution will be cross-compatible. In other words, welcome to the party.”
A game notably absent from the list was Lips, a game from developer iNis that features motion-sensitive microphones and appears to be Microsoft’s answer to Sony’s SingStar series.
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