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  • Rock Band 3 and Dance Central: Inside Harmonix
    By on October 14, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Joystick Division visits the creators of Rock Band and Dance Central for a first-hand look at both games!

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  • AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On ‘Kookaburra’
    By on July 6, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    neonsignal writes “Iconic Australian band Men at Work have been ordered to pay royalties for an instrumental riff in their song ‘Down Under.’ The notes were sampled from a well-known children’s song ‘Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree,’ written in 1934 for a Girl Guide’s Jamboree. The Justice found the claims of the copyright owner Larrikin to be excessive, but ordered the payment of royalties and a percentage of future profits. Let’s hope the primary (more…)

  • Rock Band 3 Adds Keyboards, Realistic Pro Mode
    By on June 11, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Even after three Rock Band games, Harmonix hasn’t given up on the dream of making you a rock ‘n’ roll star.

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  • 3 Flight of the Conchords Songs Heading to Rock Band!
    By on September 22, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    When Jemaine Clement deadpans that Flight of the Conchords, the outrageous music/comedy duo who just missed an Emmy last night, has three tunes coming to Rock Band, I have two reactions: “Oh, B.S.,” and “God, I hope so.” The Emmys’ red carpet is a weird place to drop a bomb like that.

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  • ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ going fast
    By on September 18, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Limited edition version might not be available at year’s end.

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  • ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’: Fixing a hole in gaming industry?
    By on September 8, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    When “The Beatles: Rock Band” video game hits store shelves Wednesday — packed with 45 songs for players to sing, strum and drum along with — the industry hopes it will provide the lift that retailers, publishers and console makers desperately need for this holiday shopping season.

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