14 DAY TRIAL // This week will see four songs released by Harmonix as downloadable content for its Rock Band music simulation game. As usual, if you want to get the tracks as individual downloads you need to pay 0.99 dollars for each one, which means that they cost 80 Microsoft points.
Three of the pieces are packed as the MTV2 Pack, because it includes the songs that reached the final of the Dew Circuit Breakout 2007 competition, co-organized by MTV2. The songs and the bands performing them are kinda unknown, but MTV2 thinks they have what it takes to make it big in the future. The tracks in the pack are "Moving to Seattle" by The Material, "A Clean Shot" from The Myriad and "Bullets & Guns" performed by Them Terribles. The whole pack can be downloaded for 2.99 dollars.
Another track available this week is "Girls Who Play Guitars" from Maximo Park.
As always, the announced tracks for Rock Band will become available today on the Xbox Live Marketplace and two days later, on June 12, on the PlayStation Network Store. I really wish that at some point Harmonix would understand that this two day delay serves no one and reach a deal with both Sony and Microsoft to make the tracks available at the same time for all those who wish to get them.
It's a rather slow week when it comes to releases for Rock Band and this is rather bad news for the company. Activision is really launching a charge of Guitar Hero titled games in the next months and it seems that Harmonix is not reacting yet. With Guitar Hero: World Tour poised to offer all the features that Rock Band is offering and with more and more songs added by Activision to its own downloadable content library it seems that Rock Band is in for a rough patch, unless Harmonix has something up its developer sleeve.