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Most of us were looking forward to playing along to the 1981 album “Moving Pictures” by Rush this week, as Harmonix had promised us this treat for our weekly dose of DLC. When we logged on yesterday and found no Rush, we were concerned. Today, that concern has turned to panic. Here’s the updated announcement from Comunity Manager HMXSean from the Rock Band Forums:
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen technical difficulties, we won’t be able to release Rush’s “Moving Pictures” this week. We’ll be working on it as hard as we can, but it looks like it could be a couple of weeks to fix. In the meantime we will be moving around our schedule so we still have DLC coming out each week (including this week, info to follow in another announcement).
A couple of weeks!?!?!! Dangit! Well, it will be interesting to see what they can scramble together to put in place on short notice so we don’t go hungry for rock this week!
[EDIT: This news has been officially confirmed by Harmonix through their email 'zine pictured after the video!]
Chatter is ablaze on the RockBand official forums with several members posting comments that they viewed a very special tv commercial today. According to several people, the VH1 Classic channel aired a promo video that announces Rush’s “Moving Pictures” album will be available for download next week (Tues Aug 26 for xbox and Thurs Aug 28 for Playstation).
Take a look at the video and see if it looks like a fakey fake to you!
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The Full list of songs as shown above is
Tom Sawyer (Original Version)
Red Barchetta
YYZ
Limelight (Original Version)
The Camera Eye
Witch Hunt
Vital Signs
Tracks will go for $1.99 (160 points) or pick up the whole album for $10.99 (880 Points).
Well, the word is an album is a’comin! Remember when RockGamer’s Smeeguel made himself a celebrity on National TV? Well, apparently, that event sparked more than just a few minutes of fame for a code monkey. I wonder if this is what we are expecting next week.. hmmmmm
Rock Band fans - we need your input. RockGamer.com is sending a few ace reporters to Pax at the end of this month and we’d like to get an idea of the burning questions you still have about Rock Band 2 or Harmonix in general that you haven’t seen answered yet.
We’ll take those directly to the top and then report back to you with the news! Just post your question in the comments section so we can make a list. We’ll get as many of them answered as we can - even if it means holding someone hostage at plastic gunpoint.
We even have prizes to give away to the folks who come up with the most questions that make it onto our final list. So post away!!
Warner Music fired a shot at MTV and Activision, saying that it may pull out of both the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises. Edgar Bronfman of WMG is saying that they aren’t getting their fair share of sales, but Activision was quick to fire back.
An article coming from the Financial Times quoted Activision’s CEO Robert Kotick saying “I think his view was … that [Warner Music] should be compensated the way they might for a performance on iTunes. But, this is an entirely different business [than iTunes] that is very technically complex. We’re going to favor those publishers that recognize and appreciate how much we can add value to their artists.”
A Warner Music spokesman said the company had “enormous respect” for the investment and creativity game-publishers had brought to the music-gaming business.
He added: “We hope that our partners in the gaming space appreciate not only the value of their own contributions but also those of the recording artists, songwriters, record labels and music publishers on which their games are significantly based.”
How come the benjamins always seem to get in the way of the fans? Warner’s catalog includes Led Zeppelin, R.E.M., The B-52s, Green Day, and Depeche Mode. Look at DragonForce album sales before and after Guitar Hero III and tell me it’s not worth it!
G4 has an exclusive story with breaking Rock Band news! According to their story, they’ve spoken with PR coordinator John Drake. Certainly we already knew that Harmonix’s extensive DLC catalog would be at 500 by the end of the year, but we are excited to hear that we’ll have a new album coming out in the next 16 days!!
Here are all the reported tidbits they picked up:
This week’s Rock Band DLC has been announced and flash back to the 80’s my friends. There’s a double dose of Duran2, some re-recorded master Devo tunes and a track by The Janitors on the cheap.
TRACKS:
- Devo - “Girl U Want” (new original recording) - 160 MSP - $1.99
- Devo - “Through Being Cool” (new original recording) - 160 MSP - $1.99
- Duran Duran - “Girls on Film” - 160 MSP - $1.99
- Duran Duran - “Rio” - 160 MSP - $1.99
- The Janitors - “Get Your Rock On” - 80 MSP - $0.99
All tracks are masters.
We’ll get the MP3 and video previews posted asap on our DLC central page. Check back often.
According to the mathmatically talented folks over at Scorehero.com and their calculations, the song “Seven” by Vagiant in Rock Band is technically impossible to drum your way to a Gold Star score. “Seven” as well as several other songs in the game have been identified as either impossible to Gold Star on drums and/or on guitar so we spoke with Helen McWilliams, lead singer/guitarist for Vagiant, as well as Harmonix Spokesperson-With-The-Most-Flair for the scoop.
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