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Video Games: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Now Available in Beatles Rock Band

Posted by   on November 18, 2009

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One of the greatest albums of all time, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is now available for Beatle’s  Rock Band on both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.  You can purchase the tracks separately or as a full album. On PSN it’s $2 a track or $13.49 for the full album. On Xbox live it’s 160 points per track and 1080 (I still loathe the whole MS point system, I wish they’d kill it and use real dollar amounts.) It’s available now.

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VIDEO GAMES: Daft Punk comes to DJ

Posted by   on September 14, 2009

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DJ Hero - Daft Punk Venue

I’m not going to front and act like I know anything about the DJ culture or who the heck Daft Punk is or why this is stupendous news, but it does seem like Activision is really pulling out all the stops for their new Music game DJ Hero and I’m getting curiouser and curiouser about it.  I mean how is this thing going to work? Do I want even more plastic gaming instruments in my house?  Anyway Daft Punk is adding a bunch of new mixes to the game.  Ton of images and full press release after the break.

  • Daft Punk “Around the World” vs. Young MC “Bust A Move”
  • Daft Punk “Da Funk” vs. NASA “Strange Enough ft. Karen O, ODB and Fatlip”
  • Daft Punk “Da Funk” vs. Queen “Another One Bites the Dust”
  • Daft Punk “Robot Rock” vs. Hashim “Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)” – Produced and mixed by The Scratch Perverts
  • Daft Punk “Robot Rock” vs. Queen “We Will Rock You”
  • Daft Punk “Short Circuit” vs. Boogie Down Productions “Jack Of Spades”
  • Daft Punk “Technologic” vs. Gary Numan “Cars”
  • Daft Punk “Television Rules The Nation” vs. No Doubt “Hella Good”

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Michelle Rocks out to Guitar Hero 5

Posted by   on September 11, 2009 · 1 comment

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GH5 PARTY PLAY NOW!

I feel like I’ve reviewed Guitar Hero and Rock Band so many times that I’ve run out of things to say about them.  Originally, I wasn’t excited about Guitar Hero 5, Activision’s latest milking of their music game franchise.  I looked at the initial set list and had no idea what many of these songs were. I popped the game into my X-Box 360 and nearly dropped the guitar when I saw the full list. It has Peter Frampton’s Do You Feel Like We Do! I was sold on the basis of that song alone, but then I saw the Rolling Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil, and finally, finally, Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.  My god, what a triple threat. On top of these great classics, for the first time ever, you can import previously purchased tracks into a Guitar Hero game – for free.  I always end up purchasing some tracks for my Guitar Hero games but lose track of which disk each purchased track went with – another reason I’ve grown to dislike the GH franchise. Now, I, at the very least have all my purchased tracks on one disk. Way to go Activision.  Now how about importing my other game disks? How cool would it be to have both Free Bird and Do You Feel Like We Do on the same disk?

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VIDEO GAMES INTERVIEW: The Beatles Rock Band Producer Josh Randell Speaks!

Posted by   on September 9, 2009 · 1 comment

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Did you know that 9.09.09 is going to be a huge day for the Beatles? For the first time ever The Beatles are issuing their remastered Catalog in both Mono (for you purist) and Stereo on CD. It’s widely expected that The Beatles music on iTunes will finally be announced at today’s Apple’s music event and there’s a little game called The Beatles: Rock Band. A few weeks ago I did an interview with the game’s producer Josh Randall – who must have one of the coolest jobs in the world.

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1) Can you talk a bit about how this entire project came to be? Did you pursue the Beatles or did they come to you?

The concept actually came about because of a chance meeting during the family vacations of Van Toffler, President of MTV Networks Music Group and the Harrison family, Olivia and Dhani. Dhani Harrison is a fan of Harmonix and its history and reputation for developing music games. From that conversation, MTV Games and Harmonix worked with Apple Corps to make the dream a reality.


2) Why do you think the Beatles chose you guys over your competition?


I think from our first meetings with Apple Corps, it just made sense. We were able to engage those guys on a creative level that I think made them comfortable. As our organizations got to know each other better, we grew a mutual respect for one another, and things fell into place.


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VIDEO GAMES: Beatles Rumored Setlist, Confirmed?

Posted by   on August 13, 2009

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Beatles Rock Band

Well, what do we have here.  Several websites are reporting that the rumored full Beatles Rockband setlist that’s been going around is actually real.  I generally don’t like to cover rumors, but this seems to be fact (confirmed by Game Informer) and I fully expect the Rock Band folks to send out the official press release tomorrow or Monday.  If this is true, the 45 song Beatles disk is pretty rocking.  Take a gander after the break.

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VIDEO GAMES: Guitar Hero 5 Full Set List, Announced. Features 85 Tracks!

Posted by   on July 30, 2009

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Guitar Hero 5 Setlist

This morning the folks at Guitar Hero sent over an email with the final GH 5 set list. I’m going through it and I honestly can’t say I’m excited. I’ve always said Guitar Hero is the better Music Game but Rock Band was the better Music Platform because while I love playing GH, I’ve never been particularly fond of their track lists – even the Smash Hits track list pretty much sucks. Highlights for me include, Dancing With Myself, All Along The Watchtower, Fame, Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting, Sympathy for the Devil, Superstition and Play That Funky Music – Seven awesome must play songs out of 85? Why, oh why can’t Activision embrace real DLC? I don’t want to pay full price to get 7 songs, especially when I don’t even know what 65 of these songs are!  The full list is after the break. What do you think?

 

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VIDEO GAMES: Guitar Hero: Smash Hits

Posted by   on June 29, 2009

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Guitar Hero: Smash Hits Review

Activision finally sent me my copy of Guitar Hero: Smash Hits on the day Michael Jackson dies. Ironically it seemed almost perfect that I would get a music game on the day a music legend passed. I was getting tired of watching the wall to wall coverage and decided, let’s fire up Smash Hits. Initially, I was totally against the idea of a Guitar Hero Greatest Hits collection, I own all the GH titles and this smelled of double dipping. Instead of these constant new discs why can’t Activision do what Rock Band does and simply let users import tracks from all their previous games into one massive library? Or better yet, get their DLC house in order. The Guitar Hero franchise is in danger of oversaturation and the fact that most of the DLC is incompatible with each game tells us Activision really doesn’t care about DLC. So no, at first I thoroughly hated the concept of Smash Hits. But after thinking about it for a few weeks, I was down with the idea of being able to play most of the obvious popular tracks on one disk instead of constantly swapping disk to play one or two songs. Then I saw the full set list for Smash. ugh…

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