TVShowsOnDVD.com is reporting that the next release of South Park on DVD will contain three tracks for Rock Band.
The tie-in with Rock Band is somewhat curious, considering that this season of South Park contains the popular Guitar Hero episode, but since Paramount Home Entertainment is part of the Viacom empire along with MTV Games, it all makes sense.
No word as of yet as to what the three songs are. Everyone is hoping for something cool and South Park related, but... who knows.
Viacom, parent company of MTV Games (makers of Rock Band) announced that their earnings were up for the first fiscal quarter, thanks in part to the amazing success of Rock Band sales and downloadable content.
Rock Band has now sold over 10 million songs on both Xbox Live and the Playstation Network since it's release late last year. Over 3 million Rock Band bundles have been sold in that time.
Rock Band's performance helped raise Viacom's Q1 (January-March) income 29 percent year-on-year to $567 million. Revenues were up 15 percent to $3.1 billion.
Continue reading "Rock Band: 3 million shipped, 10 million songs"...
As promised, Rock Band is finally releasing full albums as DLC. First up is a surprise pick though, Judas Priest's 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance. Each track is available for $1.99 (160 Microsoft points) or you can get the entire album for $14.99 (1200 Microsoft points). All tracks are master recordings.
Screaming for Vengeance track listing:
Two more albums were mentioned as coming soon: The Cars album The Cars, and The Pixies album Doolittle.
(via the official Rock Band forum)
Rock Band will be joining Motley Crue on tour for this year's much-buzzed-about CRUE FEST, a 40-city summer blockbuster that will see the Crue headlining an all-star bill featuring Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx: A.M. and Trapt. At each stop on tour, the fold-out Rock Band Second Stage Experience will give fans the on-site opportunity to become their very own rock star - by trying out the Rock Band game as a bassist, guitarist, drummer, or vocalist! In every tour market, Crue Fest fans will get the chance to battle it out in their very own Rock Band for the chance to take the Crue Fest concert stage between acts and become the local Rock Band champion!
(via press release!)
Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University Kiri Miller is curious about Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
Specifically Miller, who is an ethnomusicologist, is studying the emotions that music game players feel when they play their favorite rhythm games. She's been conducting a survey of players to determine if they feel creative or not when they play the game. Surprisingly, 30% of those who've responded to the survey say yes, they do feel creative. It's the 30% that fascinates Miller.
She plans to ask students to play the games in her office so she can study their reactions. Good thing this is a college survey because if it was being done in high school there would be red flags going up all over the place.
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Buried deep within a EA press release, archaeologists discovered a secret code which revealed the release dates for the PS2, PS3 and Nintendo Wii versions of Rock Band in the UK.
See if you can decipher the code. It reads: August 29th.
That will give the Xbox 360 version of the game over three months of exclusivity in the UK. No word yet on if you'll still have to sell your body on the streets to earn enough money to buy the thing.
UPDATE: Whoops, scratch that! EA is now backtracking, according to several internet sources, saying that the information that went out yesterday was incorrect. There remains no firm release date for the PS2, PS3 and Wii versions of Rock Band, and that's that. At least until they update us again.
Saints of Los Angeles, the first single from Motley Crue's upcoming album, will be released as a downloadable Rock Band track for the discounted price of 99 cents. Best of all, it will be available TODAY on Xbox 360 (and Thursday on the Playstation Network).
Who knows if the track is good or not, but hey... it's cheap and it's new!
The five mystery bonus songs available on the Wii version of Rock Band have been revealed. Those of us with either the Xbox 360 or PS3 versions have nothing to worry about, as these have been available as DLC for some time now.
Rock Band Wii is still on track to be released on June 22nd.
