Posted Jan 5th 2009 5:10PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
Due to Sony's holiday break last week, we didn't get any Rock Band DLC. As a result, everything has been pushed back a week. Hopefully Harmonix/Sony will adjust this soon -- we'd hate to think it will become standard practice for PS3 owners to get their DLC a week later than everyone else.
"Space Truckin'" -- Deep Purple
"Funk #49" -- James Gang
"Hymn 43" -- Jethro Tull
"Take Back the City" -- Snow Patrol
Roy Orbison Pack
"Claudette"
"In Dreams"
"Mean Woman Blues"
"Oh, Pretty Woman"
"Ooby Dooby"
"You Got It"
Each song will be priced individually at $1.99 while the Roy Orbison Pack will cost $9.99. Look for the Roy Orbison tracks next week on Thursday, January 15th while the other songs will debut this Thursday on January 8th.
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All right, this is going to be a pretty big update for everyone who loves downloading new songs, so listen up. First on the list, Harmonix is releasing a Foo Fighters three-pack for Rock Band next week in addition to the previously reported Rockin' Holiday Pack. Each song (listed after the break) goes for the standard $1.99 per individual track or $5.49 for the whole shebang.
As for Guitar Hero: World Tour, it will be getting a three-song pack as well; however, this pack consists of songs from three separate bands. All individual GH:WT songs are also priced at $1.99. Check out that list after the break, too. You can grab these tracks, as well as the Rock Band ones, off the PS Store when it updates this coming Tuesday, December 23.
Furthermore, Activision has revealed its DLC plans for the month of January, which includes tracks from Blink 182, Wolfmother, Silverchair, and a full album from Oasis. To see that, just click through the break.
Source: Rock Band [Thanks Phillip!] Source: Guitar Hero [via press release]
Posted Dec 19th 2008 11:15AM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
Harmonix has announced they will release a Rock Band track pack to help you celebrate the holidays. Unlike Sony's song pack for SingStar, this group of songs are a little more diverse. And by diverse, we mean one Hanukkah song: Rockin' the Holidays 2008 pack
"Hanukkah Blessings" -- Barenaked Ladies
"Christmas is the Time To Say I Love You" -- Billy Squier
"Blue Christmas" -- The Pretenders
These holiday tracks will land in your collective laps on Tuesday, December 23rd. Pricing is $0.99 per song or $2.99 for all three. Way to spread the holiday cheer, Harmonix -- the song pack is 2 cents more than buying them individually.
Posted Dec 15th 2008 6:00PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
MTV Games has announced yet another band's seminal album as Rock Band DLC. Pearl Jam's debut record, Ten, will be re-issued on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009. The press release states the 1991 album will also be downloadable on Rock Band that day, but we are assuming this only applies to the Xbox 360 version of the game. Most likely, the album will be made available to PS3 owners on March 26th, a Thursday, the day PS Store is usually updated.
"Once"
"Even Flow"
"Why Go"
"Black"
"Jeremy"
"Oceans"
"Porch"
"Garden"
"Deep"
"Release"
Alive is missing because it is already on the Rock Band 2 disc. Pricing information hasn't been announced, but our crystal ball past experience tells us it will be $1.99 per track.
Posted Dec 9th 2008 2:30PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
Harmonix seems to be announcing Rock Band's DLC earlier and earlier by the week -- the No Doubt compilation album hasn't even been released yet. Anyway, the DLC this time around consists of a collection of country songs:
Country Pack:
"Mud on the Tires" -- Brad Paisley
"Hillbilly Deluxe" -- Brooks & Dunn
"Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)" -- Dierks Bentley
"Sin Wagon" -- Dixie Chicks
"Gunpowder & Lead" -- Miranda Lambert
Each song will be priced individually at $1.99 while the track pack will cost $8.49. Look for them next week on Thursday, December 18th on the PlayStation Store.
Posted Dec 8th 2008 4:50PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
Time, the renowned weekly newsmagazine, has named its picks for top 10 games of year. Grand Theft Auto IV takes the top spot, while the only PS3 exclusive to make the list is LittleBigPlanet, which sits at third place. Other PS3 multiplatform titles on the list include Rock Band 2, Dead Space and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (really?). Want to know where those games are ranked and what else made the list? Check them out after the jump.
On a related note, the PS3's community-based service Home is number 10 on Time's list of top 10 gadgets of the year. That's this year, 2008. Do the guys at Time know something we don't? Is this an indication that Home will definitely be released this year?
Source -- Time's top 10 games of the year Source -- Time's top 10 gadgets of the year
Posted Dec 5th 2008 3:35PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
As predicted earlier in the week by the band's official site, next week's Rock Band DLC will feature the No Doubt compilation album The Singles 1992-2003. Two songs, New and Trapped In A Box, have been taken out without explanation. The rest of the songs are as follows:
"Just a Girl"
"It's My Life"
"Hey Baby"
"Bathwater"
"Sunday Morning"
"Hella Good"
"Underneath It All"
"Excuse Me Mr."
"Running"
"Spiderwebs"
"Simple Kind of Life"
"Don't Speak"
"Ex-Girlfriend"
Each song will be priced individually at $1.99 while the entire compilation will cost $19.99. Look for them next week on Thursday, December 11th on the PlayStation Store.
The American punk-ska band No Doubt is bringing some of their best tracks to the Rock Band series. At least, according to a posting on the band's official website. The website states that "The Singles Collection" album will be coming to Rock Band on December 9 (probably December 11 for PS3 owners) and will include 13 tracks from the album. Funny thing is, the album has 15 tracks. So what two songs are being cut? We don't know yet, but you can check the full song list after the break.
Posted Nov 28th 2008 10:15AM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
Check out the cover of Tokio Hotel's single above: can you guess which one of them is the girl? Trick question -- they are all guys! And you thought Taylor Hanson was bad. Let's take a look at what other bands will make their debuts on Rock Band next week:
"Are You Dead Yet" -- Children of Bodom
"Tutto E' Possibile" -- Finley
"Hay Poco Rock N Roll" -- Platero y Tu
"Tempted" -- Squeeze
"Ready, Set, Go" -- Tokio Hotel
"Real World" -- The All-American Rejects
"Body I Occupy" -- Naked Brothers Band
"I Don't Want to Go to School" -- Naked Brothers Band
"Headphones On" -- Miranda Cosgrove
Each track will be priced at $0.99 for one month ($1.99 after that) except for the Naked Brothers Band tracks, which will be $0.99 permanently. Miranda Cosgrove's track is actually free. All of them will be available on the PS Store beginning Thursday, December 4th.
Striving for open-platform peripheral interoperability is something that is very important to Harmonix and MTV Games. So, when word got out that the PS3 version of Rock Band 2was having a bit of trouble getting the Guitar Hero: World Tour drum set to work with the software, the crew began toiling away to bring things up to snuff.
Indeed, the fruit of that labor is now evident with the recently released v1.01 patch. An MTV Games/Harmonix spokesperson had this statement: "We have been actively working with Sony to develop a software solution to correct the interoperability issue with the Guitar Hero: World Tour drum and guitar peripherals on PS3 and are pleased to announce that this solution is going live today. In addition, the patch will also address some rare crashes and minor issues that were brought to our attention."
Posted Nov 21st 2008 8:00PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
This week's Rock Band DLC brings the Killers track pack we reported on last Friday. Yngwie Malmsteen also gets a track pack, while Soundgarden gets two singles and Lamb of God is left with one song. Take a long:
The Killers 3 Pack
"Mr. Brightside"
"Smile Like You Mean It"
"Spaceman"
Yngwie Malmsteen 3 Pack
"Caprici Di Diablo"
"Damnation Game"
"Red Devil"
Other songs:
"Jesus Christ Pose" -- Soundgarden
"Pretty Noose" -- Soundgarden
"Laid To Rest" -- Lamb of God
Each song will be priced individually at $1.99 while the two track packs will cost $5.49 each. Look for them next week on Tuesday, November 25th (instead of Thursday, which is Thanksgiving in the US) on the PlayStation Store.
Posted Nov 14th 2008 8:30PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
Five bands and their ten songs are what's on the menu in this week's Rock Band DLC. Headlining them will be yet another band with a name that references presidents. The songs are as follows:
Dead Kennedys 3 Pack:
"California Uber Alles"
"Holiday In Cambodia"
"Police Truck"
Mission Of Burma 3 Pack:
"Mica"
"That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate"
"That's When I Reach For My Revolver"
Century Media Girls of Metal 3 Pack:
"Forever" -- In This Moment
"Closer" -- Lacuna Coil
"Swamped" -- Lacuna Coil
Other:
"Gone" -- Crooked X
Each of the track packs will be priced at $5.49 or each song can purchased individually for $1.99. Crooked X's Gone is the exception -- it will be priced at $0.99. All of them will be available on the PS Store beginning Thursday, November 20th.
Posted Nov 7th 2008 7:00PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
Uncomfortable with a series of tubes delivering your music? No worries -- if for one reason of another you don't have access to the PS Store, Harmonix has put together a selection known as Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2 to be made available at retail stores on November 17th for $30. The game is a standalone game, but you can choose to transfer the songs over to your hard drive. Full tracklist is after the break:
Posted Nov 6th 2008 5:00PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
As we learned late August, Rock Band will be getting the Foo Fighters album The Colour and the Shape as DLC. It looks Harmonix will be bringing it to us next week. Here are the tracks:
"Doll"
"Monkey Wrench"
"Hey, Johnny Park!"
"My Poor Brain"
"Wind Up"
"Up in Arms"
"My Hero"
"See You"
"Enough Space"
"February Stars"
"Walking After You"
"New Way Home"
Where is Everlong, you ask? That's already on the Rock Band 2 disc. Each song will be priced individually at $1.99 while the entire album will cost $19.99. Look for them next week on Thursday, November 11th on the PlayStation Store.
Posted Nov 5th 2008 4:20PM by Alan Tsang Filed under: News
November 4th has come and gone. In the States, we've got a new president, but those of you with waiting for the free 20 song DLC for Rock Band 2 aren't as lucky. Harmonix has acknowledged that PS3 owners haven't received their download codes yet. They'll be coming "later this week," according to Harmonix (via 1UP).
In case you forgot, you need to get the redemption code from the back of the RB2 manual, punch it into the page here, and they'll e-mail you one. Finally, if you forgot what the twenty songs are, we've got the list for you right here.
