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Rock Band 2 Drums Unchanged, But Can Be Extended for $$$?
In our coverage of the inevitable world-ending battle that will ensue when both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour come out, we have covered everything from the drums, to the guitars, to the song and artist lineups, to the game features themselves. (Pictured: Guitar Hero: World Tour wireless drum set with cymbals) One of the [...]
Continue reading...Konami (Dance Dance Revolution) Sues Viacom/Harmonix (Rock Band)
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Konami, creators of Dance Dance Revolution, Karaoke Revolution and Drum Mania rhythm games (and the Metal Gear Solid series), sued Viacom/Harmonix, creators of Rock Band, for patent infringement (this patent). Viacom/Harmonix claim they are doing nothing wrong and have their own patent to prove it. Any guesses as to what this means for Rock Band 2? [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Guitar and Screenshots How Does it Compare to Guitar Hero: World Tour?
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Staying on-top of the Rock Band 2 vs Guitar Hero: World Tour craze is hard business. First we find out that Guitar Hero: World Tour will have all sorts of sexy Guitar enhancements, wireless drums and song-creation features! Then we get a peek at the Guitar Hero: World Tour artist and song list… looking hot, but [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Will Have Wireless Drums Like Guitar Hero World Tour
Monday, July 7, 2008
Not willing to sit back on their hands while Guitar Hero: World Tour hypothetically hands their ass to them, via a product listing on Amazon, Harmonix has indirectly confirmed that Rock Band 2 will also include a wireless drum set priced at $89.99. Expected street date of September 14th for Rock Band 2… so this battle-of-the-band-err-game [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Song List Preview
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Update #1: Here’s the official complete confirmed Rock Band 2 artist and song list! During G4 TV’s preview run of Rock Band 2, some forum goers over at ScoreHero Forums snagged a screenshot of part of the song-list screen. Kotaku further broke it down with a best-guess of artists backing the song list, and we have: “Panic [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 May Get “Radically Different” Music Creation Tools
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
News is trickling out that while Guitar Hero: World Tour will pioneer the custom-music-creation tooling for “band gaming”, Rock Band 2 won’t have the feature out of the gate but may add something “radically different” down the road to the game. So as we get closer to these September and October release dates for the two [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Guitar Pictures
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
We’ve been covering the up-coming war between Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 as the details unfold… this is mostly because I finally played one of these games and see why people like them so much; they are pretty fun. Since Guitar Hero: World Tour got the announcement-drop on Rock Band 2, Rock Band [...]
Continue reading...Artist Lineup for Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2
Saturday, June 28, 2008
With the internet abuzz with questions like “Will Guitar Hero: World Tour be better than Rock Band?” and seeing that Rock Band 2 is right around the corner to bring another refresh to the winning franchise… the real question is which franchise do you want to get hooked into? Music line-up is probably one of the [...]
Continue reading...Guitar Hero: World Tour Blows Away Rock Band
Friday, June 20, 2008
Update #1: As the preliminary reviews of Guitar Hero: World Tour trickle in, it seems that things might be closer of a race than we originally thought. Check it out. I have completely ignored the instrument-based-video-game fad over the last few years, that includes: Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band I really haven’t paid [...]
Continue reading...Game Problems All Around
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Ugg… looks like a shit-storm of problems for gamers this holiday season. First 1-Up fires off a “preview” of it’s time with the “near final” copy of Half Life: Orange Box for the PS3, and said it’s just a useless pile of crap; ridden with bugs and unplayable in parts. Given that Valve’s head honcho, Gabe [...]
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Friday, July 11, 2008
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