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Yeah, it's just the open beta launching tonight, meaning people can now upload songs they've made and people with xna accounts can playtest songs.

Complete 1/5 DLC

Paul McCartney – “Band on the Run (Live)” +

Paul McCartney – “Jet (Live)” +

Paul McCartney – “Sing the Changes (Live)” +

Blink-182 – “Adam’s Song”

Blink-182 – “First Date” +

Blink-182 – “I Miss You”

The Psychedelic Furs – “Love My Way” +

The Psychedelic Furs – “Sister Europe”

The Ramones – “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” +

(All tracks are original master recordings)

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Paul McCartney New York City Pack 01” or “Blink-182 Pack 02”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

Oh hey, dlc for the week.

12/29 DLC

Going Country Pack 02 (880 / $10.99)*:

• Alan Jackson – "Good Time" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
• Cross Canadian Ragweed – "Cry Lonely" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
• Jason Aldean – "She's Country" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
• Keith Urban – "I Told You So" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
• Kenny Rogers – "The Gambler" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
• Martina McBride – "This One's For the Girls" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
• Shania Twain – "Any Man of Mine" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
  And this is rumored for 1/4.
  
  Paul McCartney: New York City Pack 01 (440 / $5.49)*:
  • "Band on the Run (live)" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
  • "Jet (live)" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
  • "Sing the Changes (live)" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

So, as some of you may know, I recently ordered myself some instruments. Sadly, only 1st gen but whatever. Any precautions I should undertake before usage? Speaking of the drums specifically.

Also, is the microphone similar to a standard one, would it fit into a normal microphone stand or would I have to buy a 3rd party one that probably costs more than the game itself?

Don't beat the shit out of your drums is usual precaution for those. Though some times the rock band 1 drums can be quite wonky and just stop working for no reason. The pedal as well is easier to break, though I've never had problems with my rock band 1 set miraculously.

I bought a regular mic stand and the rock band mic will fit fine into the holder.

12/8 DLC

• Slipknot – “Duality”

• Slipknot – “Psychosocial”

• Slipknot – “Sulfur”

• Simon & Garfunkel – “I Am a Rock” +

• Simon & Garfunkel – “The Sounds of Silence” +

• Lights Resolve – “Dreaming of Love” * + (available on Xbox 360 and PS3 only)

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “Slipknot Pack 01” aswell as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system, and asindividual tracks on Wii. Tracks marked with a “+” are also availablein the family-friendly LEGO® Rock Band Music Store.

Price:

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Slipknot Pack 01”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

“*” Denotes a free track

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Partial 12/15 DLC

The following songs will be available as Green Day Pack 02:

* Christian's Inferno

* Last of the American Girls

* ¡Viva La Gloria!

Price:

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Green Day Pack 02”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

$5.49, £3.99 UK, €2.49 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for "Night Ranger Pack 01" or "Nirvana Pack 02"

Issent that Cheaper than usual? Three Song packs were 3.99 in the past werrent they?

I think they just got the UK and EU prices backwards on that.

12/1 DLC

Nirvana – “Come As You Are (Live from MTV Unplugged)” +

Nirvana – “Lithium (Live at Reading)”

Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Night Ranger – “(You Can Still) Rock in America” +

Night Ranger – “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” +

Night Ranger – “You’re Gonna Hear It From Me” +

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “Night Ranger Pack 01”or “Nirvana Pack 02” as well as individual tracks on Xbox 360 andPlayStation 3 system, and as individual tracks on Wii. Tracks markedwith a “+” are also available in the family-friendly LEGO Rock BandMusic Store.

Price:

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$5.49, £3.99 UK, €2.49 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Night Ranger Pack 01” or “Nirvana Pack 02”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

11/17 DLC

AFI - Beautiful Thieves

AFI - End Transmission

AFI - Love Like Winter

AFI - Medicate

AFI - The Leaving Song, Pt II

The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian+

Them Crooked Vultures’ “New Fang”+

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “AFI Pack 01” as well asindividual tracks on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system, and asindividual tracks on Wii. Tracks marked with a “+” are also availablein the family-friendly LEGO Rock Band Music Store.

Price:

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$8.49 £5.25 UK, €6.59 EU (680 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “AFI Pack 01”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

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The Beatles: Rock Band 11/17 DLC

Available for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft (Nov. 17) and PlayStation®3 System (Nov. 19):

Individual Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band singles: “Fixing AHole,” “She’s Leaving Home,” “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!,”“Within You Without You,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lovely Rita,” “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” and “A Day In The Life.”

Price:

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per each individual track

The “Complete The Album Pack” features:

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band singles: “Fixing A Hole,” “She’sLeaving Home,” “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!,” “Within YouWithout You,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lovely Rita,” “Sgt. Pepper’sLonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” and “A Day In The Life.”

Price:

$13.49 USD, £7.49, €8.99 (1080 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Complete The Album Pack”

Available for Wii (Nov. 17):

Individual Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band singles: “Fixing AHole,” “She’s Leaving Home,” “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!,”“Within You Without You,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lovely Rita,” “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” and “A Day In The Life.”

Price: $2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per each individual track

11/3 DLC

• Foo Fighters – “Best of You”

• Foo Fighters – “The Pretender”

• Foo Fighters – “Wheels”

• Foo Fighters – “Word Forward”

• Nirvana – “About a Girl”

• Nirvana – “Blew”

• Nirvana – “School”

• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – “Fake Friends”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “Nirvana Bleach Pack,”“Foo Fighters Pack 03” and as individual tracks on Xbox 360 andPlayStation 3 system and as individual tracks on Wii.

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Nirvana Bleach Pack”

$6.99, £3.49 UK, €5.29 EU (560 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Foo Fighters Pack 03”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

New songs for the DS version of LEGO Rock Band announced. I'm just going to assume that these will show up on the console versions as well.

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby

The Automatic - Monster

Ray Parker Jr - Theme from Ghostbusters.

Tom Petty - Free Fallin

The Beatles: Rock Band Full Setlist

Full Song List:

ONE SONG IS EXCLUDED AS A SURPRISE.

Singles

I Want To Hold Your Hand

I Feel Fine

Day Tripper

Paperback Writer

Revolution

Don't Let Me Down

Please Please Me (1963)

I Saw Her Standing There

Boys

Do You Want To Know A Secret

Twist and Shout

With the Beatles (1963)

I Wanna Be Your Man

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

A Hard Day's Night

Can't Buy Me Love

Beatles For Sale (1964)

Eight Days a Week

Help! (1965)

Ticket To Ride

Rubber Soul (1965)

Drive My Car

I'm Looking Through You

If I Needed Someone

Revolver (1966)

Taxman

Yellow Submarine

And Your Bird Can Sing

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Getting Better

Good Morning Good Morning

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

I Am The Walrus

Hello Goodbye

The Beatles (White Album) (1968)

Dear Prudence

Back In the U.S.S.R.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Birthday

Helter Skelter

Yellow Submarine (1969)

Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road (1969)

Come Together

Something

Octopus's Garden

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Here Comes the Sun

Let It Be (1970)

Dig a Pony

I Me Mine

I Got a Feeling

Get Back

Love (2006)

Within You Without You/ Tomorrow Never Knows

The Rock Band Metal Track Pack, out Oct. 13, will be adding these songs to the Rock Band library.

Blue Öyster Cult - Transmaniacon MC

Hawkwind - Master Of The Universe

I Mother Earth - Levitate

Motörhead - Killed by Death

Nazareth - Hair of the Dog

Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade

Also, this big piece of information came out today.

MTV Games and Harmonix Empower Artists and Labels to Get Their Music in the Game with the Rock Band Network

The Rock Band Network Gives Artists and Record Labels Tools to Author, Promote and Sell Music for Download via the Rock Band Platform

CAMBRIDGE, MA and NEW YORK, NY – July 17, 2009 – Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced the Rock Band Network, a ground-breaking initiative that gives musicians and record labels the ability to author their own original recordings into gameplay files and sell their music as playable Rock Band tracks through the newly-created Rock Band Network Music Store. The introduction of the Rock Band Network marks a fundamental shift in the exposure music games can give emerging and established artists through innovative technologies that will open new revenue streams and promotional avenues.

"Our goal with Rock Band has always been to go beyond making music games and create a true music platform," said Alex Rigopulos, CEO and co-founder of Harmonix. "With the Rock Band Network, we've evolved the platform to its next logical step, giving players access to an incredible amount of new music by putting the professional tools we use in the hands of the artists themselves."

"The Rock Band Network enables songwriters and musicians – at any stage of their careers – to create their own paths through the interactive music realm," said Paul DeGooyer, Senior Vice President, Electronic Games and Music, MTV Networks Music Group. "Our download store has been an extraordinary success, and it’s exciting for us to provide access to our platform through this uniquely elegant solution."

The Rock Band Network will launch as an open beta in late August 2009 in the U.S. and provide a sophisticated toolset, with detailed documentation on how bands can begin the process of authoring songs into Rock Band gameplay files. Authors will be able to submit tracks for playtesting and peer review via a specialized Web site, Creators.RockBand.com. Potential publishers will need a membership to Microsoft’s XNA Creators Club Online in order to test and publish game content. The service will only be available to those who purchase a premium membership to Microsoft’s XNA Creators Club Online, which can be purchased for four months at $49.99 or for a year at $99.99.

“The proven strength and stability of Microsoft’s game development tools, technologies and services allowed Harmonix to focus on making an easy-to-use experience for authors without needing to reinvent the wheel,” said Dave Mitchell, product unit manager, XNA publishing platform. “Rock Band Network is a model example of integration with XNA Creators Club Online.”

Once tracks are approved, they will be transferred to the Rock Band Network Store, an in-game music marketplace where millions of Rock Band fans will be able to demo samples of the songs for free before they purchase. Songs will debut exclusively on Xbox 360 for 30 days. Artists featured in the store will be able to choose from multiple pricing tiers for individual tracks and will be compensated via a simple payment system that provides automated accounting and regular royalty payments.

Tracks for the Rock Band Network will be made available later in the fall on the Xbox 360® video game entertainment system from Microsoft. Stand out tracks will follow on the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™ console. Joining the more than 750 tracks available to date, the Rock Band Network Store will greatly increase the amount of music available through the Rock Band music platform and further confirm MTV Games and Harmonix’s position as the leading provider of downloadable content for music-based video games.

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About MTV Networks

MTV Networks, a division of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world’s leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual worlds and consumer products. The company’s portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 350 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, The N, AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, Atom, Gametrailers and Xfire.

About MTV Games

MTV Games is dedicated to creating, marketing and publishing high-quality, innovative interactive products that are relevant to the MTV audience and complement the core values of the MTV Networks brands.

About Harmonix Music Systems, Inc

Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA, and established in 1995, is the leading developer of groundbreaking music-oriented videogames. Harmonix was founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, who formed the company to invent new ways for non-musicians to experience the unique joy that comes from making music and have pioneered music and rhythm gaming in the US. For more information please visit www.harmonixmusic.com.

© 2009 Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Harmonix, Rock Band and all related titles and logos are trademarks of Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., a MTV Networks company. Rock Band developed by Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. MTV: Music Television, MTV Games and all related titles and logos are trademarks of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle and POGO are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Microsoft, Xbox. Xbox 360 and Xbox Live are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. “PlayStation” is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

More info and a video and be found here http://creators.rockband.com/

7/14 DLC

Big Dipper “All Going Out Together”

Big Dipper “She’s Fetching”

Big Dipper “Younger Bums”

Judas Priest “Dissident Aggressor (Live)”

Judas Priest “Eat Me Alive (Live)”

Judas Priest “Prophecy (Live)”

The Dead Weather “Hang You From the Heavens”

The Dead Weather “No Hassle Night”

The Dead Weather “Treat Me Like Your Mother”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as part of the “Big Dipper Pack,” “Judas Priest Pack,” “The Dead Weather Pack 01” or as individual tracks for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 systems.

Price:

$1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Big Dipper Pack,” “Judas Priest Pack” or “The Dead Weather Pack 01”

6/30 DLC

Foreigner Pack 01

Blue Morning Blue Day

Feels Like The First Time

Headknocker

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon of Choice

Warped Tour Pack 02

Dear and the Headlights - Sweet Talk

The Devil Wears Prada - Hey John, What's Your Name Again?

Thrice - Image of the Invisible

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busi...icle6531367.ece

Bobby Kotick and a partner bought the once-struggling Activision for $440,000 in 1991, at a time when it was losing $30 million on $10 million in revenues. Now the world's biggest independent computer games company, it has a market value of $16 billion (£10 billion) and operating profits of $179 million in the first quarter on sales of $981 million.

Activision overtook Electronic Arts last July when it was in effect taken over by Vivendi of France in a deal where Vivendi injected World of Warcraft into the company for a 56 per cent stake. With such success, Mr Kotick, who runs the business from Beverly Hills, can probably get away with saying anything, which, soon enough, he does.

The target is Sony, the once-dominant hardware maker. “I'm getting concerned about Sony; the PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don't make it easy for me to support the platform. It's expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better. Games generate a better return on invested capital on the Xbox than on the PlayStation,” he says.

It is not a very subtle hint, although Mr Kotick says his company paid $500 million to Sony in royalties and other goods last year, which “probably still worked out at 400 per cent of the profit they made”. Actually, Sony's games division lost $597 million last year, and Mr Kotick seems to think it may have to risk more losses if the £299.99 PlayStation 3 is to develop.

“They have to cut the price, because if they don't, the attach rates [the number of games each console owner buys] are likely to slow. If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony.” Ask when and he says: “When we look at 2010 and 2011, we might want to consider if we support the console — and the PSP [portable] too.” Sounds like Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's chief executive, is going to have to call Mr Kotick pretty fast.

Activision is pretty fortunate in that it has ridden the trend away from traditional “shoot 'em up” titles to family-oriented, interactive games such as Guitar Hero, which grossed more than $1 billion last year. “It was as big as Titanic [the film] with better margins”.

DJ Hero, with its own turntable, will follow this year, although Activision will have to endure its main competitor, Viacom's Rockband, launching a Beatles-themed game.

But it is a trend that, unlike Nintendo, which practically reinvented gaming with the Wii, Sony has been slow to react to. To illustrate the point, Mr Kotick stands on a plastic skateboard that turns out to be the controller for Tony Hawk: Ride — the company's attempt to reignite the well-worn franchise. Using motion and infra-red sensors, the board detects movements in both the player's body and feet, and speed is generated by swiping a foot on the floor next to the board. It is hoped the title will be a blockbuster later this year.

“Such a physical interface could be ideal for Sony,” he says, building up the sales pitch, before he warns that he will “generate better returns on invested capital” on the Wii and the Microsoft console. If he can persuade Sony to bend to his will, then it will be a sign of how far the power in the computer games industry has changed.

Activision is becoming more ballsy by the second, but this can't be good for either side. Hopefully Sony just tells them to let the door hit them on the way out.

6/23 DLC

A Day to Remember “The Downfall of Us All”

Bad Religion “21st Century Digital Boy”

Chiodos “I Didn’t Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard”

Escape the Fate “The Flood”

Underoath “Reinventing Your Exit”

Maroon 5 “Little of Your Time”

Maroon 5 “Makes Me Wonder”

Maroon 5 “Wake Up Call”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as part of the “Warped Tour Pack” or “Maroon 5 Pack” or as individual tracks for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 systems.

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change **

Price:

$1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Maroon 5 Pack”

$8.49 (680 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Warped Tour Pack”

6/16 DLC

Evanescence - Bring Me to Life

Evanescence - Call Me When You’re Sober

Evanescence - Weight of the World

Spinal Tap - Back from the Dead

Spinal Tap - Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare

Spinal Tap - Saucy Jack

Spinal Tap - Warmer Than Hell

(All tracks are original master recordings)

Price:

$1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track and $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points) for "Evanescence Pack" and $6.99(560 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Spinal Tap Pack”

Ugh, I so desperately need to not be broke and buy points. Coheed, TV on the Radio, Maiden will just break my bank account. Now to beg people for money for points.

So then, the copy of Number of the Beast... that must be a cover recording then, right? The one we already have, I mean.

My credit card bills are going to be so high... between this, the Social Distortion and Alice Cooper packs, I haven't bought that much DLC in such a short time in ever.

Yeah it is. Similar to when we had the covers of Rush's Working Man, Tom Sawyer, and Limelight.

Early announcement from the Rock Band Zine

6/9 DLC

Iron Maiden 12 Pack

Aces High (Live)

2 Minutes to Midnight

The Trooper

Wasted Years

The Number of the Beast

Run To The Hills

Can I Play With Madness

The Clarivoyant

Powerslave

Fear of the Dark (Live)

Hallowed Be Thy Name (Live)

Iron Maiden (Live)

All Original Master Recordings.

Fighter: Kenny Florian

Console: 360

Gamertag/PSN: ragbag3815

I've had the quitting thing happen twice online so far. Today I had a guy quit right as I got him into a kimura. The only thing I do is just avoid them after the fight. Oh well, people are dickheads online as already noted.

I'm like 31-19 or something like that. Mixing it up with KO's and subs.

Just did my first online fight, I was Brock and my opponent was Mir, and Jesus, Brock in full mount is fucking deadly.

Also I just downloaded Stupify and while playing it on guitar it sounded like the lyrics were either "fuck" or "puck" for those one sections. I am too tired and lazy(its been on of those days) to plug in the microphone and sing the song. So can someone tell me what the lyric says while singing?

The lyrics on rock band is that he's saying 'Awk'.