14 DAY TRIAL // Legendary guitarist and recent astrophysics professor Brian May, the man who played lead guitar for Queen, has pretty much confirmed that Harmonix and MTV Games are working on a Rock Band videogame centered on the career of his band, which was headed by Freddy Mercury. It seems that the game is being developed alongside Rock Band 3 and might arrive at some point in 2011.
May told DN, a Sweden-based news site, that the title would be built around the music of Queen and that one of the highlights would be playing one of their legendary stadium concerts, complete with theatrics and crowd reactions. Apparently, the guitarist realized he was not supposed to talk about Queen: Rock Band and deflected further questions.
Queen made an appearance in LEGO Rock Band and Brian May talked about the possibility of a full title dedicated to the band last year, when the gaming world was still awed about how Harmonix and MTV Games managed to create a complex experience with their iteration dedicated to The Beatles.
The two companies have neither officially confirmed nor denied that such a project exists. The developer has recently put up a poll on its official site asking fans to show which band they found more interesting for a future project but clearly stated that no decision would be based only on player interest.
At the moment, Harmonix is working on two big projects. Rock Band 3 is set to arrive late during this year and offer more songs, as usual, but also deliver a more complex simulation experience, with keyboards included for the first time and an options model bringing guitar playing closer to reality. Dance Central is the other project, linked with Microsoft's Kinect motion tracking system, focused on the simulation of gaming without the use of any mat peripherals.