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ON OTHER PLATFORMS: Xbox360, Playstation 3, Playstation 2, Wii

GAME INFO publisher: MTV Games developer: Harmonix Music genre: Miscellaneous MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS n/a	ESRB rating: T homepage: www.rockband.com/ release date: Nov 21, 07 (released)

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»	Jul 18, 2008 E3 2008 Trailers: Rock Back 2, EndWar, Mercs 2 and More The next wave of E3 trailers marches into view. Here's one that brings back some swell memories: That was Capcom's remake of the C64/arcade classic, 1942. » MORE

»	Jun 30, 2008 Rock Band 2 Announced Looks like EA confirmed the recently rumored sequel to the popular rhythm/music game, Rock Band. Yep, Rock Band 2 is on its way, so I guess it's really good news for all of you who like to jam all night long using them plastic guitar thingies. » MORE

Jun 09, 2008

Rock Band 2?
There's a number of reports indicating that MTV and Harmonix are already working on a sequel to the rhythm/music game, Rock Band. It seems that certain retailer databases not only suggest the existence of Rock Band 2, but claim that it would hit the market as early as November 2008.

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»	May 28, 2008 Age of Conan vs. GTA IV Age of Conan is doing alright across the pond, but not good enough to manage to beat the sales of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, which is clearly still dominating charts in the UK. » MORE

»	Apr 09, 2008 US Gamers Prefer Buying Used Games During this year’s MI6 game marketing conference in San Francisco, the results of a study related to the video game resale market in the US have been revealed. » MORE

»	Apr 01, 2008 Xbox Live, Wii Sports & Guitar Hero for Hotel Guests Some of the fancier hotels are looking to enter into partnership with Nintendo and Microsoft to offer titles like Guitar Hero and Wii Sports to entertain guests. » MORE

»	Mar 24, 2008 Rock Band Wii This June Rock Band developer Harmonix confirmed that the Wii version of their popular rhythm/music game will be arriving on June 22, 2008. A so-called Special Edition bundle was announced, which packs a wireless guitar, drum kit and microphone for a "mere" $169. » MORE

»	Mar 12, 2008 Viacom Shows Teeth, Activision Backs Down Viacom: "We sue!" Activision forks out the cash Viacom: "Call off the hounds!" That's about the gist of it. Now if this doesn't make a company look pro, I don't know what does -- flexing legal muscle. » MORE

»	Mar 03, 2008 $208 Million Bonus For Rock Band Developer Harmonix, MTV-owned developer of Rock Band, just earned itself an extra $208.7 million from parent company Viacom. The bonus comes due to last year's success. » MORE

»	Feb 15, 2008 January Game Sales Over $1Bn, CoD 4 and Rock Band Top Sellers Sales-tracking company NPD Group reveals that the console market in the US generated $1.18 billion throughout January 2008. Here's how the figure breaks down: $377. » MORE

»	Feb 08, 2008 More Game Awards, Top Honors to CoD4, BioShock and Orange Box Yep, winners of the 11th annual Interactive Achievement Awards have been announced. The awards were declared during The Academy of Interactive Arts & Science's annual D. » MORE

»	Feb 01, 2008 Euro Rock Band by June, Wii Version Coming Electronic Arts' financial conference call, which, I'm sure, will be mentioned more than once today, reveals the company's latest figures, as well as plans for future projects. » MORE

»	Jan 22, 2008 Rock Band (PS2) Tops US Sales So, let's find out what gamers are ordering through Amazon these days. Check out the latest US all-format chart (as always, '*' indicates pre-order): 1. » MORE

Jan 23, 2008

Call of Duty 4 Beats Halo 3 on Live
Halo 3 ranked as the top playing game on Live for a long time. Major Nelson reports that Bungie's popular shooter was pushed out of the way by Activision's Call of Duty 4, which currently stands as the most played game on Microsoft's Live service.

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»	Jan 18, 2008 Rock Band Rides the Lightning Even though Guitar Hero III still turned out to be the rockstar of the two, Harmonix's Rock Band certainly isn't doing too bad for itself either. In fact, Harmonix and parent company MTV Games today announced that they have sold more than 2. » MORE

»	Jan 11, 2008 GameStop: Sales Up Nigh on 35%, Holiday Best-Sellers Proclaimed American video game and entertainment software retailer GameStop confirms that company revenues for the last nine weeks of 2007 amounted to over $2.3 billion, almost 35% higher than the $1. » MORE

»	Jan 08, 2008 Wii Rules America According to Amazon.com, the Wii is totally wtfpwn1ng the all-format US bestsellers list. Seven out of ten titles are for the Wii -- and most are totally casual. » MORE

»	Jan 02, 2008 Three New Rock Band Songs on Xbox Live If you're into Microsoft points, and into faking guitar riffs and drum beats, you're sure to spend 160 points per each song, three in total, which you can download for EA's Rock Band over Xbox Live. » MORE

Dec 19, 2007

Jerry Bruckheimer and MTV to Found Game Studio
MTV Games revealed they are teaming up with movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer to create original and movie-based video games. The announcement states that this new development studio will take on "a team of experienced video game experts, artists and storytellers.

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»	Dec 20, 2007 No GH3 Patch Yet, Activision Wants its Cut Thanks to disputes between Rock Band developer Harmonix and publisher Activision PS3 owners are still waiting for a patch that would allow them to play Rock Band with a Guitar Hero III controller. » MORE

»	Dec 14, 2007 1,000 Rock Band Copies Stolen Los Angeles Times is running a story about a hijacked shipment of 1,000 Rock Band bundles for the X360. The group of Rock Band snatchers remains at large. » MORE

Dec 13, 2007

No Rock Band PS3 With Guitar Hero III Controller
Here's the latest in the "lol@PS3" news category. Looks like MTV Games and developer Harmonix aren't at all pleased with Activision's decision to block the release of a patch that would allow PS3 owners to use the Guitar Hero III controller with Rock Band.

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»	Dec 03, 2007 Free EA Game With Repaired Rock Band Periphs About a week ago, EA promised to compensate users who got stuck with defective guitar peripherals for the recently-released interactive musical delight, Rock Band. » MORE

Nov 28, 2007

Rock Band Show on MTV?
Boy, masses of geeks imagining they are rock stars. We have Guitar Hero and Rock Band to thank for that. Although MTV isn't working on a Rock Band TV show just yet, a company rep mentioned that such a project was considered, but they didn't want to rush into anything that could be potential crap.

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»	Nov 23, 2007 Rock Band Drum Set on Your PC Thanks Joystiq for this one. This gamer/programmer, apparently, configured the Rock Band drum kit to work with Windows PC. Instructions on how to do this were posted over on this blog (there's a custom-made installer ready too). » MORE

Nov 22, 2007

Rock Band Sues Activision
You have to admit it's a catchy headline. It's true as well, although blatantly sensationalistic. Rock band The Romantics is suing Activision, Harmonix and Red Octane over a cover version of one of their songs featured in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's.

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»	Nov 20, 2007 'Rock Band' Goes on Tour As far as EA and Harmonix are concerned this is a perfect way for you to act like a total geek in front of your friends. Rock Band Special Edition Bundle is now available at retail stores across America for the for 360 and PS3. » MORE

»	Nov 13, 2007 Rockband Delayed in Canada Rock Band has been delayed in Canada. You know why this is, right Canadians?! Harmonix is punishing you for giving us Brian Adams! The PS3 and 360 versions of the game that are hitting the US on November 20 will ship in Canada on December 17. » MORE

»	Nov 06, 2007 US All-format Best Sellers The latest Amazon sales charts currently show Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) as the top-selling title in the US. Check out the all-format chart below (as before, '*' indicates pre-orders): 01. » MORE

»	Nov 05, 2007 Rock Band Goes Gold EA, Harmonix, MTV and whoever else has chipped in on this project, send word that the long-awaited Rock Band, the musical game which lets you sing, play a wireless guitar and bang on drums with your buddies, has gone gold for the 360, PS3 and PS2. » MORE

Oct 25, 2007

Rock Band Release Ahead of Schedule
Gspot has the scoop that Rock Band, the hugely awaited and most promising multi-instrumental delight from Harmonix, is now arriving three days ahead of schedule, (Stop the presses! - 2Lions) which means it's gonna land just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.

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»	Oct 20, 2007 Your Band World Tour Stays Offline We end this Saturday update with a bit of disheartening news for Rock Band fans. Makers of the game, Harmonix, revealed on their site that the Band World Tour campaign mode will only be available in offline mode. » MORE

Oct 13, 2007

$170 Bucks is What You'll Need to Fork Out for 'Rock Band' This Year
The boys over at Thebbs.com caught up with Rock Band makers, Harmonix, at the PlayStation Holiday Press Preview Event in Toronto, Canada, and fired off a bunch of questions about the highly anticipated music game.

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»	Oct 03, 2007 New Guitar Hero III Tracks Confirmed In what is turning out to be a battle of note-churning heavyweights, Activision has announced 17 additional tracks that will be available in their upcoming music video game, Guitar Hero III (expect our hands-on preview of the game on Friday). » MORE

»	Sep 28, 2007 Rock Band for $170 Dollars on Nov. 23 Saw over on Joystiq that Rock Band has gotten an official release date and pricing. The game will be coming out on November 23 for the 360 and PS3 and will retail for $170 dollars. » MORE

Sep 27, 2007

Rock Band Amazon Delay Wrong
For some odd reason, Amazon sent out notices to customers with the information that EA's Rock Band has been pushed back to late 2008 (???). A rep for Harmonix was quick to defuse the situation, "We have asked Amazon to address this and we'll be coming out November of this year.

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»	Sep 20, 2007 New Tony Hawk's Proving Ground Trailer Here's another chance to check out more in-game action from Activision's title, Tony Hawk's Provind Ground. Skate is giving this one a serious run for its money. » MORE

Sep 05, 2007

Grateful Dead in Rock Band
More good news for Rock Band groupies. Got word from MTV just now that they've inked a deal with the legendary rock LSD-poppers band Grateful Dead to have "18 master recordings from its diverse catalog available as digitally distributed game levels following Rock Band’s release this holiday season.

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»	Aug 22, 2007 GC 2007: Electronic Arts: Press Conference Recap Right, let's get the show on the road. EA was one of the first major publishers that greeted the press during the initial day at the Games Convention in Leipzig. » MORE

Aug 17, 2007

MTV Wants to Invest $500 Mil. in Video Games
That's right, MTV plans to invest over $500 million in video games within the next two years. Here's what key MTV reps had to say: "As we take our brands narrow and deep to serve our targeted, niche audiences, we’re putting well over $500 million behind building our games business across all of the brands in our portfolio.

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»	Jul 25, 2007 EA on Rock Band Pricing The boys from Playstation Universe have a follow-up from EA on the earlier suggested (via some online retailers) price for Harmonix's upcoming game, Rock Band. » MORE

»	Oct 31, 2005 Rock Band Sues Microsoft The company that's had its intellectual rights violated more than any other software company in the world is being sued by a drummer alleging they have used three of his former band's songs in Xbox snowboarding title Amped. » MORE

»	Jul 24, 2007 'Rock Band' Priced and Dated Over on Engadget they spotted that you can now pre-order Rock Band, the new Harmonix game (Guitar Hero series makers), for $199 bucks. You get the game, one guitar, microphone and the drum set. » MORE

»	Mar 03, 2006 Mixing Depeche Mode and The Sims Get a load of this. Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS - News) today announced that the signature sound of legendary alternative rock band Depeche Mode has been translated to The Sims native Simlish language for the first time ever. » MORE

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