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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
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Lors d'un entretien avec mtv, Sony s'est exprimé sur l'ajout prochain de jeux Playstation 1
sur sa boutique en ligne. Cliquez sur suite pour en savoir plus.
There are many classic PS One games available to download through PlayStation Network in Japan, but
we’ve seen barely any here in the United States (does anyone want to play ”2
Xtreme,” anyway?)
I didn’t ask John Koller, the head of hardware marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment
America, whether this was changing when we spoke earlier this week. My bad, readers.
But he did follow-up over e-mail last night.
”Yes, we are working on further PSone additions to the PS Store and should see those launch
shortly,” he said.
With that in mind, what PS One games do you want to re-buy?
”Klonoa” and ”Metal Gear Solid”
would be very much appreciated, thanks!
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give you Up On n'avait vraiment rien contre, ni pour lui avant
ça mais cette fois-ci, le mal est fait : on en rigole. Lors des traditionnels MTV Europe
Awards, remis à Liverpool, le chanteur Rick Astley,... Lire la suite | commentaire
Retrouvez "Calum Best : 50 jours sans sexe" dès le 24 novembre 2008 et chaque jour à
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Just a little over a year ago, Honeyshed launched its beta
site, promising to blend the merchandise-moving capabilities of QVC with the video stylings of
MTV. We weren’t fans of
it then (to put it mildly), but with the site officially out of beta as of last week and a
year’s worth of experience under its belt, have things gotten any better?
In a word: no.
As AdAge pointed out rather
eloquently, the problem is that Honeyshed just tries SO hard to be hip and winds up failing
miserably. Honeyshed is built on the idea that people know they are being marketed to, so why not
make the proposition transparent? Wear the fact that you are shilling products on your sleeve and
try to wrap that mercantile message in entertaining and goofy skitz that the kidz will like.
The problem with Honeyshed is encapsulated within a video segment trying to sell you a fog
machine (!). One of the video’s hosts, “Pok Boogey,” proclaims, “You walk
into a party, you bring a fog machine, you’re the sh-t.” Does anyone actually believe
that?
Honeyshed has put itself in an awkward conundrum. It believes it has more integrity and appeal to
jaded youth because it’s so up-front about its commercial ambitions. But that authenticity
is immediately lost when a group of goofy people talk about how you need a fog machine.
I spoke with Honeyshed CEO Stephen Greifer who admitted the site had some issues finding traction
this past year. “We never really generated much audience,” he said. Though he
wouldn’t provide any stats, Greifer “wouldn’t object” to the metrics
listed in a recent AdWeek
article that said Honeyshed never drew more than 7,000 visitors a month.
Despite the setbacks, Greifer is a big believer in Honeyshed’s future. He told us the
company now has 150 brand marketers and has filmed more than 400 content segments devoted to
hawking products in categories like fashion, beauty, and gadgets.
Greifer said Honeyshed will make money by charging companies the production cost to make a video
segment, as well as through sponsorships and a CPM+ model whereby advertisers pay based on a
yet-to-be defined level of engagement with the ad (for example, higher rates if a viewer watches
the video all the way through). So far Puma is the biggest brand name paying to be on the site
(there is a Volvo spot, but the car company didn’t pay for it).
While still a separate entity, Honeyshed is still financially supported and solely funded by
giganto ad agency network Publicis. Honeyshed isn’t profitable yet and Greifer didn’t
have a deadline by which the site needed to become successful. “We need to see what the
trajectory is around how we’re able to build audience,” he said. “To put an
exact time frame on that is difficult.”
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
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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
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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
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En voila une bonne question, personnellement je n’ai pas la réponse, mais
peut-être que la suite de ce billet vous fera réfléchir. La semaine
dernière lors d’une interview pour MTV, le duo français a en effet avoué
reconnu avoir utilisé de nombreux samples non modifiés sur son dernier album
†.
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.
En voila une bonne question, personnellement je n’ai pas la réponse, mais
peut-être que la suite de ce billet vous fera réfléchir. La semaine
dernière lors d’une interview pour MTV, le duo français a en effet avoué
reconnu avoir utilisé de nombreux samples non modifiés sur son dernier album
†.
a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126545/broken 20drum 20pedal_qjgenth.jpg?773816"
rel="lightbox[article126545]" title="Broken 20Drum 20kit 20pedal 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20
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align="right" border="0"/aI'm sure many of you folks who own span style="font-style: italic;"Rock
Band/span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(a title="Harmonix's Rock Band Xbox 360"
href="http://xbox360.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/3723"Xbox 360/a, a title="Harmonix's Rock Band
PS3" href="http://ps3.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/3722"PlayStation 3/a, a title="Harmonix's Rock
Band Wii" href="http://http//wii.qj.net/category/Rock-Band/cid/4016"Wii/a)/span/span/span have
found the drum pedals that come with the kit aren't all that durable. Some might even say they're
defective. I'd like to use a stronger word to describe them but good taste forbids. brbrDon't
believe me? Search the net a little bit and note the numerous span id="iTxt"span style="font-style:
italic;"Rock Band/spanspan id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"/span/span/span drum pedal repair and
reinforcementnbsp; businesses that have sprung up. They're not there because people don't need
them.brbrAnyway, someone else has apparently noticed the weakness of the pedal's design and has
taken his observation one step further: Monte Morgan from Kansas claims that a
href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/harmonix/12356" id="tag" title="(Harmonix Music Systems) Independent
Video Game Developer"Harmonix/a and co. know about the defect in their pedals and are actively
trying to profit off of it.brbrMorgan hired a team of lawyers to put his grievances into writing
and slapped Harmonix, EA, a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/mtv/458" id="tag" title=""MTV/a and a
href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/viacom/15124" id="tag" title="an American media conglomerate"Viacom/a
with a class action lawsuit for an unspecified amount and an injunction order, presumably on the
sale of more any more "defective" drum pedals.brbrThe suit comes heavy with circumstantial evidence
(remember, civil suits generally only need a preponderance of evidence and not evidence beyond a
reasonable doubt). Among other things it pointed out the suspicious timing of the expiration of
span style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band/span's extended warranty to coincide with span
style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band 2/span's release and the fact that improvements to kick pedal
in span style="font-style: italic;"Rock Band 2/span figure so prominently in the game's marketing
campaign.brbrOrdinarily, I'd give my blessing to anyone brave enough to take on corporate giants
for releasing a dodgy product, but given that his suit seems to be targeting the extended warranty
and the new metal plate added to the drum kick pedals.... I don't know if I want to see him win
this one. brbrIf a company
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