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Electronic Arts has announced a loss for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, saying that it has a budget gap of 234 million dollars, which is significantly more than the 95 million loss reported for the same period of last year.Overall sales have also dipped, with the publisher only selling videogames worth... |
5 August 2009
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Video games get better every year, whether they get content, graphics or gameplay upgrades. That is why we see plenty of yearly iterations in many genres, like sports or music titles. But, at least in terms of music games, a lot of players have begun to wonder why it isn't as easy to deliver new experiences, in... |
9 July 2009
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Music games are a lot of companies' bread and butter during these financial times as they hold the key to quite a few profit opportunities, from the retail sales of the titles to peripheral marketing and the release of premium DLC tracks that arrive each week in order to enhance the repertoire of the games. Har... |
12 May 2009
11:01 GMT |
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The Rock Band franchise is currently one of the most important series of video games active in the music genre. Created by Harmonix, the titles have brought a wide variety of new features, effectively pushing the genre forward, with full band play and, most importantly, downloadable content. DLC allowed developers t... |
5 May 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Music games are very popular these days because they offer both a great experience to the player and a lot of opportunities from which to squeeze some extra profit for the companies behind them, like peripheral sales or downloadable content in the form of new tracks. Harmonix is relentless in its pursuit of offering... |
22 April 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Music games are very popular these days due to the great entertainment value that they have, giving people the chance to play songs alongside family and friends, and due to the ever increasing song library, which is renewed every week through DLC. Harmonix continues to keep its Rock Band franchise in the spotlight as... |
7 April 2009
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Not a day without a Rock Band-related announcement seems to be the company policy for Harmonix and MTV Games, the developer and publisher of the very popular Rock Band series of titles. After revealing what songs owners of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will get to download this week and the following one, the compan... |
1 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Harmonix, MTV Games and distributor Electronic Arts have released some of the data and figures related to the performance that the Rock Band franchise has had in 2008. Some of the data quoted is pretty impressive indeed and it certainly points to a close struggle with Guitar Hero, the music simulator that is being pu... |
30 March 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Music games are very popular these days as more and more people enjoy themselves while playing their favorite songs from different generations with their friends and family. This also translates into a lot of profit for the companies responsible for such games, as people are very interested in buying new peripherals ... |
24 March 2009
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Rock Band creators Harmonix and MTV Games have partnered up with Microsoft in order to offer gamers a chance to join into playing the title with the drummer of celebrated grunge rock band Pearl Jam, which is also getting one of its most important albums introduced to the Rock Band Music Store. It's a cool chance... |
19 March 2009
06:07 GMT |
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Music titles have become quite a target for a lot of companies looking to become partners in their development or even produce, as the chances for profit are much, much higher than in the case of usual titles. While the sales of a normal game, plus the addition of one or two pieces of DLC, will generate a fair share ... |
18 March 2009
12:21 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the makers of the Rock Band series, are announcing that more tracks are coming to the Rock Band Music Store. This week’s releases are pretty high profile, with alternative rock gods R.E.M. and upstarts The Offspring providing tracks alongside British songwriter and guitarist Richard Thom... |
10 March 2009
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Music games have become the bread and butter for quite a lot of game developers and publishers out there, because they provide a variety of profit options – from the actual retail sales of the game to the peripherals that are needed to play it and, most importantly, the post-release paid DLC lineup that offers ... |
10 March 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games are announcing the latest downloadable tracks set to become available for Rock Band 2, the latest music simulation from the two companies. The new songs are a three pack from alternative rocker Jimmy Eat World and a compilation of what are called “alternative country” tracks from va... |
23 February 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Music games are becoming more and more popular these days, with loads of gamers buying them for their very big entertainment value. With titles such as Guitar Hero or Rock Band, people can envision themselves along with family or friends as their favorite bands, rocking out in famous concert halls around the world.On... |
29 January 2009
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Harmonix and Electronic Arts are announcing that they have another batch of six tracks that Rock Band 2 players can get for the Wii version of the game. It's nice to see that the companies are moving quickly to add songs for the game after the official inauguration of the Rock Band Wii Store.The tracks you can n... |
28 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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One of the big questions about gaming in 2009 is how music games will evolve, after 2008 seemed to signal a slow down in the interest players have for them. If the market is shrinking, then the most important intellectual properties, Guitar Hero and Rock Band, will have to fight for every customer they can get. And, ... |
26 January 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The music game genre has seen a massive popularity and sales boom recently, as people are becoming more and more attracted to the fact that they can play their favorite songs, together with their family and friends and envision themselves on the stages of the most famous concert halls of the world. As such, the music... |
15 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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It seems we can't go one day without saying something about Rock Band 2 or Harmonix. After reporting that Rock Band 3 will not be coming in 2009, probably because of the amount of work needed to make that Beatles music game, and telling you a bit about the way players of Rock Band 2 on the Nintendo Wii will be r... |
13 January 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Videogame publishers have long complained that the second hand market, where major chains and small shops partner up to offer used games at usually lower prices, reduces the profits of the gaming industry and can be blamed, at least in part, for the troubles through which some publishers went through in 2008.Video Ga... |
13 January 2009
02:21 GMT |
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At the Consumer Electronics Show, Harmonix already made a big announcement, saying that Rock Band 3 would not arrive in 2009, a music game focused on songs from The Beatles taking over the development time of the studio. Now, the company is also offering some details regarding downloadable tracks for the Rock Band 2 ... |
12 January 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Rock Band is one of the most popular music game franchises out there, winning over quite a lot of fans through its innovative gameplay and really solid lineup of songs. It is engaged in a bitter fight with its arch rival, Guitar Hero, and, even though it doesn't have the same financial power as Activision, Harmo... |
28 December 2008
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Could the gaming industry, and more specifically, the rhythm game segment, be beneficial to the music industry? Some CEOs of big music companies suggested that games like Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour should pay bigger royalties to their companies, which offered them the rights to use various music tracks.Ac... |
23 December 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Rock Band is one of the most popular music games out there, bringing its developer, Harmonix, and publisher, MTV Games, quite a lot of profit. It was the first game that introduced other instruments to the music genre, giving users the opportunity to play the drums or vocals, and also came with a unique DLC (Download... |
17 December 2008
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Time is one of the serious magazines that are aware of the impact videogames have on today’s society. The publication has just outed a list of the Top Ten games of 2008.The best game of 2008 is Grand Theft Auto IV, the title published by Take Two and developed by Rockstar. Lev Grossman, who is in charge of... |
12 December 2008
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The music game genre is definitely on a high ascending trend these days, as more and more customers are looking for titles like Rock Band or Wii Music to have fun. These games certainly have a lot of advantages and the fact that you can play with your whole family as one band is extremely attractive for a lot of peop... |
11 December 2008
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After the launch of the biggest videogames of 2008, analysts are looking at the relative power of the various publishers, judging which are on track to meeting their financial projections and which are going to present worst than expected figures.Electronic Arts is now in the spotlight, with people like Michael Pacht... |
11 December 2008
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MTV Games and Harmonix announce that they plan to release a new downloadable pack track for Rock Band 2. The twist is that, for the first time, the videogame is getting a bunch of country music tracks and the addition is surely set to make some players very happy as they use their fake instruments and play their favo... |
9 December 2008
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Disney has announced the full track line up for Ultimate Band, the rhythm game it is launching. The title is noticeable for not having any peripheral and it is coming to the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS on November 25. It could be a direct competitor for Guitar Hero On Tour, which uses the Nintendo DS and its Gam... |
19 November 2008
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When MTV Games bought Harmonix way back in 2006, few people paid attention to a clause which awarded significant bonuses to developers based on sales of the Rock Band series. It appears that even Viacom did not believe it had to set aside money to pay those bonuses, as it only gathered some 208 million dollars this M... |
13 November 2008
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When Guitar Hero World Tour was announced, one of the most hyped features was the fact that players were able to enter a game mode which allowed them to create their own songs, record them as tracks and as in game playable items and then share them with friends over the Internet. Activision played up this part of Gui... |
12 November 2008
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Harmonix has announced that it plans to release The Color and the Shape, one of the most loved albums by the Foo Fighters, as downloadable content for Rock Band 2. The full album will arrive on November 11 for the Xbox 360, and on November 13 for the PlayStation 3. The price will amount to 1,600 Microsoft Points or 1... |
10 November 2008
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MTV ratings are plummeting as more teenagers listen to music on the go or online. Paramount branded movies are not doing great at the box office. But MTV Games and Harmonix are going strong and making money for all the involved parties.Viacom's profit went down by 37% this year. But the weirdly named “anci... |
7 November 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Rock Band 2 was supposed to receive 20 free tracks, from various less known bands, as downloadable content sometime today. But it seems that there have been some issues related to getting the songs on Xbox Live and the exact moment when they become available is still unknown.With the official Rock band forums awash w... |
6 November 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Harmonix and MTV Games might be on the verge of a big coup as far as fans of music games are concerned. The biggest band in the world, The Beatles, are set to release their songs for gamers to enjoy on Rock Band and Rock Band 2.The Wall Street Journal is quoting sources inside Apple Corps, the company which handles t... |
30 October 2008
05:40 GMT |
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One of the most interesting moves in the battle of the music simulators, which is fought between Guitar Hero and Rock Band, has been the decision taken by Harmonix to announce that it would offer 20 free downloadable tracks soon after the launch date of its game. Until now, we did not know what tracks would be made a... |
23 October 2008
04:56 GMT |
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The Rock Band forums are under a lot of scrutiny these days because of a pretty serious glitch that affects players who purchased the Xbox 360 version of the popular Rock Band 2 music game, and which appears with the online bands that play in tour mode. In a nutshell, after quite a lengthy progress made in the game, ... |
6 October 2008
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Research firm Weekly Reader Research and retailer Game Crazy have partnered up to survey youngsters on what they want to get as gifts when Christmas rolls around in a few months’ time. The not so surprising answer is that most kids with ages between 8 and 17 want to receive videogames and gaming consoles for th... |
30 September 2008
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Rock Band 2 is the sequel to one of the best selling music games out there, fighting a good battle against Activision Blizzard's Guitar Hero: World Tour. It was launched this September and came with the whole music library from the first game and with new songs which are available on the Xbox 360 Live Mark... |
30 September 2008
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Nintendo has officially announced that Wii Music is set to debut on shelves of videogames stores on October 20. With the official unveiling of the title only coming at the E3 trade show during this summer, an October release date seems very close, which means that the game was in development at Nintendo long before i... |
19 September 2008
20:31 GMT |
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Rock Band 2 was released yesterday. Or maybe I should say that the Xbox 360 version of the game was launched on the North American market while the PlayStation 3 variant is expected in about a month, with the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii planned for late 2008. No release dates are available for other markets at the... |
16 September 2008
03:17 GMT |
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Harmonix has released the official price for the conversion process which is used to make sure that tracks from Rock Band can be played in the sequel. MTV says that the process will cost 400 Microsoft Points, which is basically 4.80 Euros or 5 $. This cost will be applied for the 55 tracks which are available on the ... |
9 September 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Guitar Hero: World Tour is aiming to get more star power so that it can outrank Rock Band 2 when the music simulation rivals are launched later this the year. Now, Smashing Pumpkins are getting ready to offer their new single, called G.L.O.W., together with 2 other tracks, as part of a downloadable pack, in October j... |
3 September 2008
09:27 GMT |
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Your trusted war correspondent again brings news from the scorched battleground of music games. As the Guitar Hero: World Tour offensive is nearing, with the twin columns of all instrument play and music creation ready to strike at enemy lines and sales numbers, the Harmonix generals that are preparing the defense of... |
25 August 2008
09:25 GMT |
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There has been much talking recently about the supposed compatibility between the upcoming Rock Band 2 and the songs that you have on your hard drive, downloaded for use in the first Rock Band game. Harmonix has already said that the two titles are similar enough that they can share the song library and the developer... |
23 August 2008
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Can you tell me which entertainment industry is on its death bed and trying desperately to find something to cling to? Yes, it's the music industry and its newest ray of hope is to get more money out of videogames. How? By charging more on the tracks that games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero use.Warner Music Gro... |
8 August 2008
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Activision has recently released its final earnings reports as an independent company, following the merger with Vivendi Games and the forming of Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest videogame companies in the industry. And, as expected, analysts poured over reports to try to discern what the company would do in t... |
5 August 2008
16:16 GMT |
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The music simulation mania is reaching new and weird heights. Just after Logitech and Activision Blizzard have announced their intentions to create "premium" instruments for Guitar Hero: World Tour, Harmonix and MTV reveal that, as part of the promotional campaign for their next music game, Rock Band 2, they will lau... |
4 August 2008
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The race for the most successful music game is heating up, with Nintendo presenting Wii Music at E3 and with Disney also revealing a game called Sing It. And one of the most interesting aspects in the race is who manages to bring popular and interesting tracks to their game. Aerosmith has already signed off on an exc... |
18 July 2008
09:20 GMT |
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In the battle of the music simulator sequels, Guitar Hero: World Tour, aka Guitar Hero IV, might be gaining a bit of advantage on its newly announced rival, Rock Band 2. The advantage stems from certain comments made by Alex Rigopulos, one of the co-founders of Harmonix, the company which initially created Guitar Her... |
7 July 2008
10:17 GMT |
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