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The official Rock Band forums were Rick Rolled this morning.  Visitors to the site were treated to NSFW images from rotten.com and with Rick Astley music playing in the background.

The site was first attacked around 7:15 AM EST and was cleaned up roughly around 10:00 AM EST. Since we were sleeping in this morning, we found out about this on one of our favorite overseas sites: Consolehero.com. Thank you Tyler for letting us wake up without an alarm today

According to HMXJohnlok:

Hey folks. I am deeply sorry for the prolonged exposure to this morning’s attack. Our first report came in at 7:17AM EST this morning, which, of course, we weren’t able to respond to (until roughly 10AM EST) since we don’t have round the clock Harmonix coverage.

We have disabled HTML (indefinitely) in all forums+subforums, which should prevent any future attacks from getting so quickly out of hand. Thanks to those who reported the threads, and I would like to apologize again for the prolonged exposure some of you experienced earlier this morning.

Hello!!! McFly?   HELLO?     Just wanted to point out some of the new features we’ve added lately.  First and foremost, is the awesome Rock Band DLC section, fully sortable with sound clips and links to videos for each instrument, AND lyrics.   It’s still evolving, but Jen and I would like to send a huge ‘Rock On’ to Smeeguel for all the sleep he’s lost coding this for us.    He’s got it working in Firefox, IE, Safari, and it even works on an IPhone!   If you have any suggestions please let us know in the forums.

Speaking of the forums, the new software is working great, but though our super pan-internet tracking virus (Ok, Google Analytics) we’ve seen lots of people only using the news pages.  You’re missing out!  We did a lot of tweaking on the theme to make it a lot easier to read (it was awfully dark) but I refuse to remove the zombies on the sidebars.  There is a lot of great discussion going on, about everything from Guitar Hero World Tour to the new Indiana Jones Movie.   With all the new games coming out, head on over to the forums and join in the discussion.

We’ve added alot of anti-spam measures, ever since our Google page rank increased we’ve been bombarded with bots spamming our comments and creating fake users….  The counter measures seem to be working great without the need to enter those annoying letters.

So, if you’ve made it this far reading the post, take some time to click on some of the other great features other than the news section.   Some of you have written asking about our poll, wanting to know if that new pasta from Pizza Hut is really tasty.   Yeah.  It’s pretty damn good.    And.. Um.. Pancakes must be cured.
Peace out.

Mike

Hey everyone! I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself to the masses. I’m Chicago Horde (most people call me Brad) and I’m the newest (and first) addition to the Rockgamer.com editorial team! Mike & Jen, in their infinite wisdom, have given me the chance to help bring you any and all news and information regarding music gaming in general, obviously with a focus on Rock Band & Guitar Hero. *raises horns*

A little about my RB/GH preferences:

• Favorite Guitar Hero track (from disc): “The Trooper”
• Favorite Guitar Hero track (DLC): “Bark at the Moon”
• Favorite Guitar Hero game: Guitar Hero II (360 version)
• Favorite Rock Band instrument: Guitar/Drums (Hey, it’s a toss-up!)
• Favorite Rock Band track (from disc): “Foreplay/Long Time”
• Favorite Rock Band track (DLC): Tie between “Smokin’” & “Truckin’” (Until the Judas Priest album hits!)
• Number of Rock Band tracks owned: ALL
• Most wanted band: AC/DC

OK, enough about me. I want to hear from you! If you’re not registered for the forums, do it now! I’m on there pretty frequently, and welcome any and all questions/comments. Plus, I need someone to help me help hijack Mike’s threads! I can also be contacted at chicagohorde@rockgamer.com. (Just give me a few days to figure out how to get into that e-mail address…)

I’m fully committed to contributing to this site with anything and everything our members and guests want to know about. (And if you’re a guest, register already!) This site is for all of us who love rocking out with these games, and our site will only get better with input from you! Tell us things you want to have happen or would like to see here. Let’s strive to make this the premier site for all things rock-gaming related!

On a final note, I must give mucho thanks to Mike & Jen for their generosity in sending this opportunity my way and believing I have what it takes to help out around here. I will do my best to make myself a valued contributor to the site and not let anybody down!

If any of you are on LIVE, send me an invite sometime! (I’m on the gamer tag page here…..) Especially if you’ve created any band members based on “He-Man & the Masters of the Universe” characters! LOL

(No, seriously…)

And with that, BEWARE THE HORDE!

We’re changing our forum software to Simple Machines Forums (SMF).   It’s a much more robust forum software that’s closer to what everyone is used to.   The problem is that with the way BBpress is integrated with Word Press, there’s no simple way to export the data.  So I started a new poll to try and get public opinion.    BBpress really has to go.   On a side note, I’m upgrading the website to Wordpress 2.5 release (We’re on beta 1) so things might be a bit flakey till around noon EST.

The forums are now online and can be accessed from the top menu bar. To celebrate, we’ve started a ‘Pretty Rocker’s’ thread. The thread can be found here, feel free to contribute. And it would be safer to think of the thread as NSFW. Your comments/feedback are welcome.

Edit: I’ve added the ability to use BBCode tags instead of HTML tags in the forums.. No more messy HTML to worry about. -Mike