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Sir Paul McCartney, who is a former Beatles member and one of the most lauded musicians of the last 30 years, has announced that he is creating original music that will be featured in an upcoming unnamed video game.
Speaking to a German newspaper called Die Zeit Paul McCartney said, “I was asked whether I coul... |
1 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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An account has found that Viacom, who used to be the parent company of Harmonix, owes the developer of the Rock Band music franchise no less than 383 million dollars (293.2 million Euro).The expert was appointed jointly by the investors in the two companies as they seek to solve issues linked to their separation earl... |
28 December 2011
07:34 GMT |
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Developer Harmonix has announced that on December 6 gamers who own Rock Band on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii will be able to download something called the Queen Extravaganza Pack 02, which adds seven new songs from the legendary rock performers to the game.Here are the tracks that Rock Band 3 ... |
5 December 2011
07:02 GMT |
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Harmonix has launched a new video which celebrates four years since the Rock Band franchise was released, talking about how hard it has been to launch the game and compete with another music based franchise that they had created.Ryan Lesser, who is the art director at Harmonix, says, “It was a rough, scary time... |
23 November 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Video game developer Harmonix, best known for its Rock Band music simulation franchise, might have been sold off by parent company Viacom earlier in the year for a very small sum but the newly independent studio says that it might get revenue of more than 100 million dollars (72 million Euro) for 2011 and record prof... |
8 November 2011
07:37 GMT |
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Harmonix has been very successful lately with its Dance Central series, which has just received its second Kinect motion tracking powered installment, but the developer says that it plans to return to Rock Band, it's main franchise, with renewed vigor.Speaking to Giant Bomb Alex Rigopulos, who is the Chief Execu... |
26 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Harmonix has been rather quiet in the last few months and has kept quiet about the titles that it plans to create after the launch of Dance Central 2, which will be out this fall exclusively on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft.But now the leader of the company says that they might be getting ready to ... |
21 September 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Video game developer Harmonix has announced a number of the songs included in the upcoming Dance Central 2, which will be launched later this year.Here are the newly announced tracks for Dance Central 2:Haddaway – What Is LoveDigital Underground – The Humpty DanceSir Mix-A-Lot – Baby Got Back (Mix M... |
31 August 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Harmonix, the creator of both Rock Band and Guitar Hero, is no longer associated with MTV Games, having been bought by an investment firm earlier in the year, but the company says that this has not affected the quality of the music that is licensing for its upcoming games. Harmonix itself worked hard to create solid... |
25 August 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Once upon a time, only a couple of years ago, one of the big rivalries of the year was the battle between music simulation Rock Band and Guitar Hero, the dueling franchises from Electronic Arts and Harmonix and Activision Blizzard.
Nowadays the music game scene is much smaller, but the developers working at Harmon... |
24 August 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Rock Band and Dance Central developer Harmonix has announced that it plans to make an important announcement at the E3 trade conference, which will take place in the early days of June, presumably announcing a new project linked to its two main series.
Speaking with Industry Gamers, Greg LoPiccolo, who is a vice p... |
20 April 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Harmonix might have been sold by Viacom and the wider music simulation genre might have wider problems at the moment, but the developer is still interested in it while also being ready to deliver other products, possibly based on Kinect, the Microsoft-made motion-tracking system.
Speaking to gaming-oriented magazi... |
1 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Activision announced that it was ending the Guitar Hero series for the moment, with no video game in the franchise planned for 2011 and with no more downloadable content delivered to those who own Warriors of Rock after February, but rival series Rock Band will continue to push for innovation in the music game space.... |
14 February 2011
08:37 GMT |
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Dance Central captured the hearts of many new Kinect owners, but it seems that its developer, Harmonix, is already thinking about the next iteration of the dance simulator, as a supposed feature list from an online survey was leaked onto the web.
Microsoft launched the Kinect motion detection peripheral at the end... |
9 February 2011
05:10 GMT |
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The Rock Band Network, Harmonix' one stop destination for those that want new tracks for their Rock Band music games, will see its Wii channel be shut down this week.The Rock Band music games have been quite a hit, largely due to the great support development studio Harmonix has offered, including the Rock Band ... |
17 January 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Earlier we found out that Viacom, the parent company of MTV Games, has decided to sell video games developer Harmonix, who is in charge of both Rock Band and Dance Central development, to an investment firm called Columbus Nova, and now the price for the transaction has been revealed to just be 49.99 dollars.A report... |
7 January 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two video game oriented companies that guide the destiny of the hugely popular Rock Band franchise, have announced that 2011 will begin for the music simulation game with a touch of greatness, as a pack of Johnny Cash songs is being delivered to Rock Band 3.
The songs can be downloaded ... |
4 January 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Media firm Viacom has confirmed that it has sold Harmonix, the developer behind the very successful Rock Band franchise and the Kinect-powered Dance Central, to Columbus Nova, a strategic investment firm, with neither part saying how much was paid for the music simulation developer.
Viacom bought Harmonix back in ... |
27 December 2010
04:34 GMT |
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MTV Games and Harmonix, the two companies that guide the destiny of the Rock Band brand, have announced that this week those who are looking for some songs to download and then play alongside their friends over the holidays have a chance to download seven new tracks. The indisputable star of the downloadable content... |
21 December 2010
04:59 GMT |
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MTV Games and Harmonix, the two companies that are in charge of the fate of the long-running Rock Band franchise, have announced that fans of the music simulation game can now download and enjoy a series of 12 songs from singer and songwriter Billy Joel.
The new content is available on the PlayStation 3 from Sony,... |
14 December 2010
13:51 GMT |
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Activision might not be ready to go on record as being interested in acquiring Rock Band developer Harmonix out right, but it seems that the publisher is not afraid to express its admiration of the developer and the importance of its franchise for the Guitar Hero series.
Eric Hirshberg, who is the chief executive ... |
10 December 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two entities that are in charge of guiding the destiny of the Rock Band franchise, have announced that today gamers who are interested in getting more tracks for their music simulation game will be able to pick up a host of new songs from rock legends Queen, all of them designed to take ad... |
7 December 2010
13:31 GMT |
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The leader of publisher Electronic Arts has suggested that the days of the music genre of video games are not over, despite the fact that the leading brands in the space have seen falling sales in the last few years, with motion tracking based dance seen as the feature that could revive them.
Speaking to Kotaku in... |
2 December 2010
06:25 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies which are in charge of the fortunes of the Rock Band franchise, have announced that this week three artists are set to be contributing songs to the Rock Band 3 Music Store, which can be accessed from the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii.The main attraction of ... |
30 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies behind the success of the Rock Band series who have ventured into Kinect gaming recently, have announced that their Dance Central game now has three new tracks available as downloadable content, allowing gamers to enjoy new songs and new dance routines based upon them.As of N... |
24 November 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies that are in charge of the Rock Band franchise, have announced that this week music lovers will be receiving, as downloadable content, the second solo album from John Lennon, “Imagine”, launched in 1971 and widely seen to contain his best solo efforts.The tracks in... |
23 November 2010
05:33 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies working on the Rock Band 3 franchise, have announced that the downloadable content for Rock Band 3 for this week is focused on the classic tracks of the Bee Gees, with additions coming from Procol Harum and legendary blues man B.B. King.The Bee Gees have a career which spans ... |
16 November 2010
13:31 GMT |
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The media conglomerate Viacom has announced that it plans to sell Harmonix, the company which has created the original Guitar Hero, all the main Rock Band installment and the recent Dance Central, classifying it as a “discontinued operation.”Viacom acquired Harmonix through its MTV subsidiary back in 2006... |
12 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies that are working together on the Rock Band franchise, have announced that four bands, White Stripes, Foreigner, Spliknot and Spacehog, have been chosen to appear in the demo version for Rock Band 3 and showcase the mechanics introduced by the new game, which came out on Octob... |
9 November 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Rock Band 3 is now out in North America and will launch on Friday on European markets and Harmonix has officially talked about how the song export feature for Rock Band 3 will work and which tracks from the previous game fans will not be able to move to the new music simulation experience.Players first need to get a ... |
28 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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An analyst watching the video game industry has suggested that the two biggest music simulation franchises, Guitar Hero from Activision and Rock Band from MTV Games and Harmonix, should join forces in order to combat the clear decline in sales the genre has been recently experiencing.Doug Creutz, who is analyst with ... |
27 October 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two gate keepers for content for the Rock Band franchise, have announced that “Imagine”, one of the most important albums from Beatles stars post break up, will be coming as downloadable content for Rock Band 3, the new music simulation title which includes Pro modes and suppor... |
27 October 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies that are preparing to launch Rock Band 3 on October 26 on the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, have confirmed that well known artist Billy Joel will be amongst the first to deliver his music exclusively to the new game via a downloadable content package.Billy... |
25 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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MTV Games and Harmonix, the two companies working on the Rock Band franchise, have announced that their online music store will be getting new songs from two of the bands that define the alternative rock genre, Stone Temple Pilots and Jimmy Eat World.The new content will be delivered for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, ... |
19 October 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies linked to the destiny of the Rock Band franchise, have announced that the first downloadable content for the upcoming Rock Band 3 will be made up of tracks from legendary rocker The Doors and will arrive on the same date as the video game itself, on October 26 in North Americ... |
18 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Dance Central, one of the most interesting titles to appear with support for Microsoft's new Kinect motion detection system for the Xbox 360, has just received its complete track list.The game, for those that don't know, will use the new Kinect system in order to detect the moves of the player, and chart th... |
14 October 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two caretakers for the Rock Band franchise, have revealed that soon after the launch of the third title in the series, which is set to arrive on October 26 in the United States on the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the DS, a full downloadable content pack with Bon Jovi t... |
14 October 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Publisher THQ has announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Dr. Deepak Chopra, a self described spiritual expert and supporter of alternative medicine, aimed at creating video game experiences based on his teachings.The agreement apparently covers all major video games consoles, portable systems ... |
13 October 2010
16:21 GMT |
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This week fans of the Rock Band franchise who can't wait to get new tracks to play around with will be pleased to know that this week the popular music simulation title will be getting a full album from rock legend Jimi Hendrix, the much appreciated “Are You Experienced?”, in order to celebrate the 2... |
12 October 2010
04:44 GMT |
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The developers of the Rock Band franchise at the Harmonix studio have said that, even after the launch of the upcoming Rock Band 3, the series still has plenty of innovation options and that the team will be working hard to make the music simulation title as close to real life as possible while also keeping the fun q... |
11 October 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies in charge of the future of the Rock Band franchise, have announced that fans of the series will be able to pick up eight new songs from R.E.M. and three new tracks from T. Rex on the Rock Band Music Store, if they game on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microso... |
5 October 2010
13:31 GMT |
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An executive at MTV Games has declared that the Pro Mode for guitar in the upcoming Rock Band 3 will cost an additional one dollar per song when getting downloadable content, meaning that one track will now set music fans back 2.99 dollars.The added charge probably comes because it is more time consuming and complica... |
30 September 2010
05:17 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies in charge of the Rock Band franchise, have announced that bands that Anthrax, The Doobie Brothers, My Chemical Romance, 30 Seconds to Mars, Atreyu and Buckcherry are the bands that are set to add their songs to the Rock Band Music Store, allowing gamers on the Xbox 360, the P... |
28 September 2010
13:51 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that this week their Rock Band Music Store will get a host of tracks from one of the biggest musical legends of the XX century, Bob Marley, available today for those who are gaming on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 or the Nintendo Wii.The songs are being offered to music loving ... |
21 September 2010
08:17 GMT |
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Rock Revolution and Karaoke Revolution publisher Konami has just decided to end its ongoing legal dispute with Harmonix, the creator of music game franchise Rock Band.Back in 2008, Konami, Japanese publisher of popular music and rhythm games like Rock Revolution, Karaoke Revolution and Dance, Dance Revolution, decide... |
21 September 2010
02:53 GMT |
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MTV Games and Harmonix have announced that the new downloadable content for their Rock Band series will include tracks from Dio and The Smiths, two of the bands that will headline the launch of the upcoming Rock Band 3, which is set to arrive on October 26 in North America and three days later in Europe.Dio will offe... |
14 September 2010
08:27 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies in charge of the Rock Band music simulation franchise, have announced that today players will be able to get new downloadable content for the series that features one of the biggest hip hop stars in the world, Snoop Dogg.Players who game on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and... |
7 September 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies in charge of the Rock Band franchise, have announced that the ever growing number of songs available for the games will be expanded even more with additions coming from Eric Church, Jamey Johnson and Lady Antebellum, giving this weeks downloadable content a country influence.... |
31 August 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games have unveiled the full track list for the Nintendo DS version of their upcoming Rock Band 3, which is set to arrive on October 26 in North America.Players will also be able to enjoy the new music simulation game on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii, where the biggest new addi... |
27 August 2010
03:14 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games have offered a full list of the songs that players will be able to rock to in the upcoming Rock Band 3, which is set to be launched on October 26 for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii.Here's the full track list for Rock Band 3, separated by eras:1960Beach Boys - “G... |
26 August 2010
17:51 GMT |
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