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At midnight of November 20, 2007, select Best Buy locations across the United States will be opening their doors in order to unite gamers with the highly anticipated Rock Band for Xbox 360 and PS3. The game is the latest release from Harmonix Music Systems, the developer of Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s. Although similar to Guitar Hero in gameplay and style, Rock Band offers up to four players to participate in a simultaneous music simulation using guitar, drum and microphone peripherals.

Rock Band‘s arrival places it in direct competition with the recently released Guitar Hero III. Although Harmonix was the original developer for the Guitar Hero series, last year’s acquisition of Harmonix by MTV forced Guitar Hero series publisher RedOctane to hire developer Neversoft to continue the beloved franchise. Neversoft, popular for the Tony Hawk collection of skateboarding simulations, seems to have struck a chord with its first music-based title, but it will be interesting to see just how fans will react to the availability of two similar but highly acclaimed titles.

Best Buy has released a small list of stores that will be opening at midnight for the release of Rock Band. The participating stores include, but are not limited to the following locations:

California City of Industry Murrieta Riverside San Bernardino San Francisco Sherman Oaks West Hollywood West Los Angeles

Colorado Lone Tree

Florida Sawgrass S. Tampa

Kentucky Lexington

Massachusetts Watertown

Minnesota Coon Rapids Eden Prairie Roseville St. Cloud

New York Midtown Westbury

North Carolina Cary

Ohio Florence Mentor

Oklahoma Norman

Pennsylvania South Hills

Texas Galleria

Wisconsin Green Bay

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