Gamertell

Good news for wannabe drummers - Harmonix has just announced that stand alone Rock Band drum kit bundles have shipped to US and Canadian retailers. The peripherals come with a copy of the game, and carry an MSRP of $79.99. The new package is available for the existing Rock Band… Continue Reading »

Makena Technologies and MTV have opened virtual skate parks based on popular television shows Rob and Big and Life of Ryan where visitors can create their own boards, perform various tricks on different ramps and discuss the hit shows via text messaging or voice chat. Brought to the net by… Continue Reading »

A lot of industry watchers were skeptical when Sony opted for the proprietary Universal Media Disc (UMD) as the PSP’s exclusive media storage format. And, as it later turned out, there doubts were not unfounded as Sony’s choice of format didn’t really go down well with the gamers for various… Continue Reading »

Digital content distribution is the order of Games 3.0, the current era of gaming, and Microsoft was one of the earliest adopters of this model with its Xbox Live service. Microsoft is ensuring that there is no dearth of content on Live, be it games or any other media. It… Continue Reading »

Rock Band and Guitar Hero are two of the leading musical video game franchise and, just because they are both musical games, don’t expect the competition to be nice. In fact the competition seems to be quite fierce with the developer and publisher of Rock Band, MTV and Harmonix respectively,… Continue Reading »

Sony’s Playstation Director of Network Operations, Eric Lempel, stated in a recent MTV interview with Stephen Totilo that Playstation 3 owners will start seeing fewer firmware updates. Sony is looking to space out the updates in order to make things easier on owners. Plus with fewer updates, owners will be… Continue Reading »

Four new songs were revealed for Rock Band today: The Pixie’s “Wave of Mutilation”, Garbage’s “I Think I’m Paranoid”, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Maps”, and Hole’s “Celebrity Skin”. The tracks will be part of the 40 shipped on the disc when the guitar/bass/drums/vocals rock simulator ships this November. Not shipping on… Continue Reading »

The war between Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band just keeps heating up, as Harmonix and EA announced more Rock Band news today at the Leipzig Games Convention. The title will be coming to European PS2’s – though no word yet on whether this will also be true in North… Continue Reading »

Videogames are certainly a lucrative business and MTV has decided to continue investing. In the past, MTV has made various videogame-related business acquisitions like Harmonix (developer of Guitar Hero and Rock Band), Atom Entertainment and Gametrailers.com to name a few. It has now investing an astronomical $500 million for continued… Continue Reading »

CVG has reported that the MTV games/EA/Harmonix music title Rock Band will include Nirvana’s album Nevermind as part of its downloadable offerings. During E3 2007, MTV and Harmonix announced that new tracks will be released each week for the title, with The Who’s Who’s Next comprising the first full downloadable… Continue Reading »