pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/rhythm/" rel="tag"Rhythm/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/6201536.html"img hspace="0" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/gam_brokenpedal_490.jpg" //abr //div Some of Joystiq's heavier-footed staffers have experienced the heartbreak that comes from snapping the original ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/search/?q=Rock%20Band"Rock Band/a/em kick pedal in the midst of a feverish playthough of strikeParamore's "That's What You Get"/strike er, Judas Priest's "Painkiller". However, we never thought to take the bold course of action currently being followed by one Monte Morgan, who recently a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/6201536.html"filed a class-action suit/a against Harmonix, MTV Networks (as well as parent company Viacom), and Electronic Arts for producing and distributing such an easily busted bass drum beater.br /br /Morgan claims that the pedal "fractures under ordinary and expected usage," keeping potential faux-drummers from playing emRock Band/em "in the manner marketed and advertised." He also cites Harmonix and MTV Games for selling the original kit with knowledge of the pedal's fragility -- evidenced, he claims, by the a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/26/fix-or-prevent-a-broken-rock-band-drum-pedal/"metal-reinforced pedal/a included in emRock Band 2/em. His case calls for reimbursement of the purchase price of the emRock Band/em drum kit, and for the title's publishers to stop selling the brittle peripheral. We suggest another settlement -- just include a a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BctbNXEexcE"free dab of Rock Jam/a in every bundle. Everybody wins!p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/22/harmonix-ea-sued-for-flimsy-rock-band-kick-pedal/"Harmonix, EA sued for flimsy Rock Band kick pedal/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.gamespot.com/news/6201536.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/22/harmonix-ea-sued-for-flimsy-rock-band-kick-pedal/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1380321/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/22/harmonix-ea-sued-for-flimsy-rock-band-kick-pedal/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Jg25shEeNw8V0rUOW9u4fZmAs5I/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Jg25shEeNw8V0rUOW9u4fZmAs5I/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=meUOCf8H"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=meUOCf8H" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=iJ2psYXm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=iJ2psYXm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/bdxKEE_QX3U" height="1" width="1"/

Catapulté l'année dernière aux commandes de la nouvelle coqueluche des jeux musicaux, le studio Neversoft avait réussi avec Guitar Hero III à limiter largement la casse, en signant un épisode certes sans génie mais fidèle aux grandes lignes tracées par Harmonix et finalement plutôt correct, malgré q...

GameCyteSean writes "GameCyte is reporting that Harmonix, EA, MTV and Viacom have been targeted by a class action lawsuit. Customers allege that the companies knowingly shipped defective bass drum pedals for the music game Rock Band, then exploited customers' necessity for replacements by having the game's hardware warranty extension expire just as the sequel, Rock Band 2 mdash; a game with improved pedals mdash; was scheduled to release." I wonder if we'll see a similar suit against Neversoft and Activision over the equipment problems related to the Guitar Hero World Tour launch.pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/22/0551251amp;from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/22/0551251"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/22/0551251amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uC3g8kla9DyJeD1lN1m4DnZd1O8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uC3g8kla9DyJeD1lN1m4DnZd1O8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/CBLJVS2EW2Q" height="1" width="1"/

GameCyteSean writes "GameCyte is reporting that Harmonix, EA, MTV and Viacom have been targeted by a class action lawsuit. Customers allege that the companies knowingly shipped defective bass drum pedals for the music game Rock Band, then exploited customers' necessity for replacements by having the game's hardware warranty extension expire just as the sequel, Rock Band 2 mdash; a game with improved pedals mdash; was scheduled to release." I wonder if we'll see a similar suit against Neversoft and Activision over the equipment problems related to the Guitar Hero World Tour launch.pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/22/0551251amp;from=rss"img src="http://hardware.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/22/0551251"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/22/0551251amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KiuU3_YU34F9-X50dE2BWn5l524/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KiuU3_YU34F9-X50dE2BWn5l524/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~4/CBLJVS2EW2Q" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=49276bd214b9b9e600412105maxX=250maxY=333" border="0" width="250" height="333" /Rock Band and Guitar Hero co-creator Alex Rigopulos scored part of a a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/rock-band-creators-score-300-million-plus-payday-via-"$300 million-plus payday/a when he sold his gaming company Harmonix to Viacom (VIA) in 2006, but he's not resting on his laurels. Speaking at the new Wired Store in New York's Flatiron district on Friday, Alex said he's looking to expand his "rhythm action" game empire to new platforms -- like Apple's (AAPL) iPhone./p pBut Alex impressed on us he's not some callow businessman -- he wants to make emart/em. "If we made a move to the iPhone, I would want to take an ambitious step in that direction, rather than just do a kind of port to the platform," Alex told SAI./p pBut what about the iPhone rhythm game Tap Tap Revenge, which is already available and popular? Not a threat, Alex says. Alex told us it was hard for him to get into the game because of its limited music catalog, and he only began to enjoy playing Tap Tap Revenge once a special edition featuring Nine Inch Nails came out./p pThe iPhone's low barriers to entry -- cheap software, easy distribution, no plastic guitars to sell -- means Harmonix's version can do well even if Tapulous has a headstart of a year or more. "Maybe we'll get there [to the iPhone] late. But if we get there with something that's better, for five dollars, we can probably sell it."/p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/rock-band-creators-score-300-million-plus-payday-via-"Rock Band Creators Score $300 Million-Plus Payday /abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/the-beatles-come-to-rock-band-before-itunes-erts-via-"The Beatles Come To Rock Band Before iTunes /a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/G-thaI5VqlTF4rXqu11iDHcXoCw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/G-thaI5VqlTF4rXqu11iDHcXoCw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=hoGgqzmd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=hoGgqzmd" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=AFn4aTeC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=dliWHfmh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=RJXjAwa2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=RJXjAwa2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=lqvSIkDn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Vnxvmx7h"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=iIibTfH1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=NtisOvgI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/1OoXRBcCTn0" height="1" width="1"/

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Created by Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, Rock Band is the ultimate platform for gamers to experience music, giving players the chance to rock out in the shoes of the biggest guitarists, bassists, drummers and singers of all time – as a solo superstar or as part of a hard rocking band. Built on unprecedented deals with top record labels and music publishers, the music featured in Rock Band spans all genres of rock and includes many master recordings from legendary artists.

Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2 is a standalone software product that allows owners of Rock Band Special Edition and Rock Band 2 Special Edition or Rock Band (1 or 2) peripherals to keep the party going with more hit songs from the pantheon of rock music, hand-picked with care by Harmonix.

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img src="http://www.edge-online.com/files/imagecache/article_homepage_large_144x108/rock_band_pedal_0.jpg" alt="Harmonix Sued Over Pedals" title="Harmonix Sued Over Pedals" class="imagecache imagecache-article_homepage_large_144x108" /br /pstrongKansas resident Monte Morgan has filed a class action lawsuit against Rock Band creator Harmonix over broken bass drum pedal peripherals./strong/p pThe suit, filed November 18 in a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said broken foot pedals quot;deprive [customers] of the value and enjoyment of their purchases.quot;/p pHarmonix, MTV Networks, Viacom and distributor Electronic Arts are all named in the suit./p pa href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/harmonix-sued-over-pedals"read more/a/p

Newly released today



Created by Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, Rock Band is the ultimate platform for gamers to experience music, giving players the chance to rock out in the shoes of the biggest guitarists, bassists, drummers and singers of all time – as a solo superstar or as part of a hard rocking band. Built on unprecedented deals with top record labels and music publishers, the music featured in Rock Band spans all genres of rock and includes many master recordings from legendary artists.

Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2 is a standalone software product that allows owners of Rock Band Special Edition and Rock Band 2 Special Edition or Rock Band (1 or 2) peripherals to keep the party going with more hit songs from the pantheon of rock music, hand-picked with care by Harmonix.

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Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of nine new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content including songs from The Killers soon to be released album Day and Age.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/online/" rel="tag"Online/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/rhythm/" rel="tag"Rhythm/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101321"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="259" border="1" align="top" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/thekillers.jpg" //abr //div Why should ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/14/the-killers-dlc-hitting-ghwt-on-nov-25/"Guitar Hero World Tour/a/em be the only one to get a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/the-killers"The Killers/a next week? As a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/15/the-killers-dlc-also-coming-to-rock-band-music-store/"previously announced/a, The Killers will also be available in a three pack on ema href="http://joystiq.com/tag/rock-band-2"Rock Band/a/em next week as well. Harmonix keeps the DLC flood going with another nine new tracks to sing, strum and drum to ... ok, more like emflick/em than strum, but you get the drift.br /br /a href="http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101321"The Killers 3 Pack/aem /em(440img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $5.50)br / ul li"Mr. Brightside" (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li li"Smile Like You Mean It" (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li li"Spaceman" (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li /ul Yngwie Malmsteen 3 Pack em/em(440img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $5.50)br / ul li "Caprici Di Diablo" (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li li "Damnation Game" (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li li "TRed Devil" (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li /ul Individual songs: ul li"Jesus Christ Pose" - Soundgarden (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li li"Pretty Noose" - Soundgarden (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li li"Laid to Rest" - Lamb of God (160img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / / $2)/li /ul All tracks are masters and will be available for download next Tuesday for Xbox 360 and PS3. PSN updates on Tuesday next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/rock-band-weekly-the-killers-yngwie-malmsteen-soundgarden-la/"Rock Band Weekly: The Killers, Yngwie Malmsteen, Soundgarden, Lamb of God/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101321Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/rock-band-weekly-the-killers-yngwie-malmsteen-soundgarden-la/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1379695/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/rock-band-weekly-the-killers-yngwie-malmsteen-soundgarden-la/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5WMH6Kyvl2ZOjXP6MF8bDjT-2fo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5WMH6Kyvl2ZOjXP6MF8bDjT-2fo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=ePaCpHWk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=ePaCpHWk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=Nv5WskMu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=Nv5WskMu" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/22i-Yx4_3xM" height="1" width="1"/