gamedaily.com - 1/28/2009
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5,000! MTV apparently will be adding thousands more songs to the Rock Band platform this year. We suggest you start sending in your requests to Harmonix now.
gamedaily.com - 1/23/2009
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gamedaily.com —
Media Coverage catches up with three journalists who
caught heat this month, including a Forbes writer who
called Rock Band a "knockoff." Here's their side of the story.
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Media Coverage: The Press Responds
gamespot.com - 1/26/2009
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gamespot.com —
Last week the NPD Group, the industry standard
of game-industry research firms, released its US sales figures
for 2008 . However, the company's top 10 game rankings only tracked individual products, or SKU (Stock Keeping Units), sold at retailers in ...
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Guitar Hero World Tour sells 3.4M in '08, Rock Band 2 ...
offworld.com - 2/2/2009
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offworld.com —
Right, we're only a few hours in and
it's going to be hard to top this for
best new development of the week: following remakes on the Commodore 64 and text adventures , Kent 'SnowBro' Hansen and Andreas Pedersen have created D+Pad Hero -- rhythm ...
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UUDDLRLRBA-Rock: 8-bit Guitar Hero comes to the NES
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Billboard: Rock Band to have 'as many as 5000' tracks available this year
Joystiq —
... DLC, on the music platform by the end of last year. Although we have no reason to doubt Harmonix's ability to provide content, the math dictates that an average of over 90 songs would need to release every week for the rest of 2009. Even if that figure is mitigated by special discs (like AC/DC) or Rock Band 3 (unlikely), the developer has its work cut out. We've contacted Harmonix to find out if its publisher is being realistic. [Via GameDaily] Billboard: Rock Band to have 'as many as 5000' tracks available ...
Rock Band To Get Nearly 5000 Tracks This Year
GEARFUSE —
... , putting it way above the number of tracks Guitar Hero: World Tour offers. But for Harmonix to meet the 5000 mark, it would need to release over 90 tracks each week for the rest of the year. I don’t really see that happening, but hey, 2000 new songs is perfectly OK with me. Just stop charging $1.99 for a fuckin’ song! Link
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