• Rock Band Downloads this Week: Weezer, Garbage, and Stone Temple Pilots
    Sunday, February 17th, 2008

    Three more Rock Band song downloads available this week. One song each from Weezer, Stone Temple Pilots, and Garbage. All are about $2 and available for XBox 360 on Tuesday or PS3 on Thursday.
    All three songs are included in the hidden list found by laconic this week that everyone thinks is Harmonix’s future-song-list. The full […]

    The new Rock Band downloads, the 1st week of February: The Clash, The Police, The Ramones
    Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

    Three new downloadable songs for Rock Band this week. This week is old school punk week, with all three bands contributing to the earliest sound of punk. All are the real things too, no covers this week.

    The Clash’s “Complete Control“
    The Police’s “Truth Hits Everybody“
    The Ramones’ “Teenage Lobotomy“

    If you’re a punk fan there’s also a 3-pack […]

    Already Bought Undertow? Grab 800 Free Microsoft Points
    Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

    Grab 800 not-quite-free Microsoft Points from 1-800-4MY-XBOX. Microsoft started giving away Undertow downloads as a cover-their-butts freebie to make up for the holiday Xbox Live outages.
    It’s not exactly a blockbuster game, but it’s free to everyone and nice for those of us who never saw any outages because we’d gorged ourselves on pie and were […]

    Rock Band Weekly Track Updates: Blink 182, plus The Monkees & Sweet (both covers)
    Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

    Three individual Rock Band song downloads Tuesday for Xbox 360 and Thursday for PS3. All three of these are about $2 each. All three are a bit more upbeat than last week’s update:

    Blink 182’s “All the Small Things“
    The Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville” (cover)
    Sweet’s “Action” (cover)

    really sweet artwork by: RatherNotSay, Creative Commons licensed

    Rock Band Song Landings: Iron Maiden, The Hives, and Stone Temple Pilots
    Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

    Harmonix is keeping its promise of weekly downloadable song updates for Rock Band. This week turns up the intensity from last week’s DLC update. Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast is just a cover, but The Hives’ Die, All Right! and Stone Temple Pilot’s Interstate Love Song are the real thing.
    Prices on each song are […]

    “All” Xbox LIVE Members to Get Free Game Download
    Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

    All that holiday downtime equals a free Xbox LIVE Arcade game to every member of the service. It’s not going to heal all the extra time spent with family for gamers with days off and new gifts to play. It’s still a whole lot better than how Microsoft handled the original Xbox 360 bricking problems […]

    Landings: Playstation Store Downloadable Content Catch-Up
    Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

    New to the Playstation Store but old to Xbox LIVE members (the ones who could get online last week, anyway) is a fresh batch of downloadable content. This DLC update is light on the visuals and heavy on the listening. Prepare to be meh’d unless you’re a Rock Band or Guitar Hero III fan.
    Content list […]