Grab the Rock Band Special Edition bundle for $20 less than normal at Target this week. The Sunday sale flyer list both the PS3 and XBox 360 versions for just $149.
On sort-of-sale are the the 40GB PS3, which comes with a $40 Target gift card, and a stack of popular PS3 and XBox 360 shooters, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Activision made major bank in 2007. They published both Guitar Hero III and Call of Duty 4, the worldwide number one and two games in sales. Expect more of the same in 2008, with Activision being more than happy to stick to successful game franchises. Here’s the 2008 major releases we know about so far:

Guitar [...]

The internet stinks sometimes, but this isn’t a spam-blog or an ugly made by a friend-of-a-friend site. What They Play is a professional site built for parents, and it’s about video games.
The site reviews video games for all systems (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, PC, & older consoles) and gives each a rating. None of these [...]

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While we move to new digs, please excuse any downtime over the next two to three days (Jan 19th – 21st).
What Happened? In our first month we’ve seen an unexpected surge in readers. Several stories have been ranked high [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the “no news is news” department comes word that EA is still not ready to confirm that Rock Band will be released for the Wii, reports GamePro. Most agree that the announcement will eventually come, especially with statements from official sources that unequivocally affirm it:
“We will, at some time, bring Rock Band to every [...]

‘Tis the season for top 10 lists, and Maxim found 10 games better than Halo 3 in 2007. If only it were a top 11 list, I’m sure Master Chief would have been included. Instead, Halo 3 had to settle for the “user pick,” an accolade on par with “most improved.” But at least Halo [...]

Rock Band players without a drumming background may not know there are three “right ways” to hold drumsticks.
Now that you know … learn them. They all have tradeoffs and one may work better than others, but all give better control and use less energy than gripping the sticks like hammers and pounding away. Use these [...]