During the Beatles: Rock Band Microsoft keynote, announcement of a downloadable album was given. “Abbey Road” will be the first downloadable album. Along with the mention of the album download, ten songs were revealed for the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band title:
Downloadable Albums + consoles = omfg!
Yep. At Microsoft’s E3 Conference, the opening featured the song “Day Tripper’” played by the Harmonix House Band. And guess what? They were harmonizing their asses off. The Beatles installment of Rock Band will keep track of three different singers as they try their hardest to match the harmonizing vocals of The Beatles. I can honestly sing my ass off. Trying to get two other jerkies to harmonize with… that’s the problem. I can see the YouTube videos now – epic fails.
I’m baffled by this one. What started as a joke, then became real, went back to a joke again, and now it’s official. LEGO Rock Band is coming this Holiday season. What. The. Eff.
The game is supposed to be more tween/teen focused than previous Rock Band titles. A few tracks shipping with the game include:
I guess we’ll be seeing mostly pop songs coming in this iteration. Maybe LEGO themed instruments too? The game will be released on the 360, PS3, Wii, and DS. Not sure how the DS version is going to work, but I’m guessing similar to Rock Band Unplugged on PSP.
I’m out of words on this one. Just don’t know what else to say. Check out more screens after the jump.
That’s right, friends, The Beatles Rock Band is coming this year, 9-9-09 to be exact. The game will be released in multiple countries on multiple platforms the same day, so get ready.
The Beatles: Rock Band will allow fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and experience The Beatles extraordinary catalogue of music through gameplay that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band’s legendary career. In addition, The Beatles: Rock Band will offer a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career.
Sounds like a plan to me. I’m sure Harmonix will do the “journey” right, so expect to play through all The Beatles earlier songs first in the game. I’m a big fan, so I’m pretty excited for this one.
Sony wasn’t kidding when they said the PSP was going to get some high quality titles. SCEA sent out a press release today detailing some amazing upcoming games for their handheld platform.
In the Fall, we’ll be seeing a PSP version of LittleBigPlanet as well as MotorStorm Arctic Edge. Harmonix will also bring Rock Band Unplugged to the PSP sans peripherals. Two new bundles were announced, including a “Lilac” Hannah Montana Entertainment Pack shipping in July. The big one though is an Assassin’s Creed Entertainment Pack. While no release date has been set, this shows yet another big title coming to the PSP.
Will this huge lineup be enough to catapult the PSP up the sales charts in 2009? I have a feeling it will, especially with the more hardcore audience. Nintendo seems to have cornered the casual market with the DS, so Sony is looking to take the hardcore market. Now if only they’d ship new PSP hardware with dual analog sticks.
The intarwebs slightly erupted with the news that the Rock Band franchise would have 5000 playable songs by the end of 2009. Turns out someone slightly misinterpreted a quote from Alex Rigopulos, the head honcho over at Harmonix.
In an interview with Ars Technica during this year’s CES, Rigopolos said that the library would go from 500 to 5000 songs “in the coming years”. Billboard took it and ran with it, saying we’d have 5000 songs to play this year.
If you do the math, we’d have to get roughly 100 songs per week to catch that mark for 2009. That’s a bit absurd and I’m surprised the people at Billboard didn’t figure that one out. So before you get all excited about insane amounts of DLC, just remember that the big 5000 number won’t be happened for a while.
Way back in the day, I used to listen to and play Rio with my college roommate on guitar. It’s the hot shit, especially for open mic nights on a college campus. I was happy to see it in Rock Band 2 and have played it at least 20 times on drums. Check out an 100% expert run with the highest score on the leaderboards.
Ummm, what would possess azuritereaction to do this, I’ll never know. He’s playing Painkiller from Judas Priest on expert drums… with one hand. Yeah, he manages to actually finish the song without failing and almost pulls off 4 stars. I have no idea how he did this. I’m beginning to think the dude is a Terminator.
To everyone who comments about the drumset, this is not me playing. The drums he’s using are a GoodWoods set and he’s using The Destroyer Pedal. I rock The Destroyer Pedal myself, but use the standard Rock Band 2 wireless drum set.
Video games continue to grow in popularity and overall acceptance as evidenced by their inclusion into more and more mainstream things like commercials, movies, toys and even clothing. I recently took a trip to the Virgin Mega Store in the city (Manhattan) and saw a number of different clothing stands in the store that were dedicated to solely video games. There was a mix of Rock Band t-shirts, bookbags, hats, wrist bands, Link and Mario t-shirts, as well as some pretty awesome jackets.
The jackets were what really caught my eye, they were both inspired by Nintendo and from my perspective looked pretty damn awesome. The first was a classic Nintendo controller printed on a jacket and the other was a large picture of Bowser. Both could actually be worn out in public and look normal, even trendy. Gone are the days of weird video game inspired clothes, there were actually a few people checking the jackets out and calling over their friends.
Do you have any video game inspired clothing you are particularly proud of?
Hit the jump for close-ups of the jackets. My apologies for the quality of the photos, but they were from my iPhone.
You won’t get to see any cool drumming today. Instead, check out all the stuff that goes into making the cool videos azuritereaction puts out. It’s a three camera setup with all kinds of crazy hookups and editing involved. Pretty damn cool, if you ask me.
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