Pat Benetar, Nikko, The Pretenders and Thin Lizzy tracks added to the Rock Band Music Store
Announcements like this make me wish I had Rock Band. And a PS3 or Xbox 360 to play Rock Band 2 on. Anyways, some awesome new tracks are being added as downloadable content (DLC) this week, and all of them are classics. There are songs from Pat Benetar, Nikko, The… Continue Reading »
Important Importables: Introducing gamers to Jrock through localized games
Japanese music is starting to get more popular among gamers, thanks to titles like The World Ends with You, Persona 3: FES and Persona 4. In order to recreate the Japanese environment and experience, the soundtracks for all three of these games was filled with Japanese hip hop, rap, pop… Continue Reading »
Wii Rock Band Music Store selling and giving away tracks
Hang out an “Open” sign. Or, at the very least, take the time to pop Rock Band 2 into your Wii today. Rock Band‘s Music Store for the Nintendo console is now open (finally), and it has 50 tracks ready to be downloaded and played in Rock Band 2. The… Continue Reading »
CES 2009: SanDisk selling Rock Band 2 SD Cards for Wii
It’s very difficult to have a game that relies so heavily on extra downloadable content such as Rock Band 2 on the Wii after seeing what its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts have to offer. Since the Wii doesn’t have a hard drive, owners have been forced to buy SD… Continue Reading »
Roy Orbison’s music appearing in Rock Band 2 tomorrow
On January 6, 2009, a music legend is going to be making his debut in Rock Band 2. The first Roy Orbison track pack is going to be released tomorrow on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. It will eventually be on the PlayStation Store as well, but not until January 15,… Continue Reading »
Playstation Store Update: Black Friday and Thanksgiving 2008 edition
With the Thanksgiving holiday rapidly approaching, Sony has decided to gift gamers early with enough games and content worthy of a feast. Digitally speaking, that is. The main course in this update feast is the release of Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix, which will set players back $15.… Continue Reading »
Harmonix founders getting $300 million in bonuses for Rock Band
Bloomberg is reporting that Viacom will be paying Harmonix co-founders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy a total of $300 million in bonuses for the runaway success of Rock Band. The huge payday for the two men is part of the conditions of Viacom’s purchase of Harmonix, which occurred back in… Continue Reading »
Rock Band 2 coming to Europe this November
Remember how Europe got totally f**ked over when it came to the release of Rock Band? How it came out like eight months after the US launch and cost twice as much? Well, thankfully that’s not the case at all with the musical game’s sequel. EA has just announced that… Continue Reading »
MTV Games, Harmonix to offer 20 free Rock Band 2 tracks
What could possibly be better than the availability of twenty new downloadable tracks for Rock Band 2? How about twenty new downloadable tracks for Rock Band 2 for the low price of $0.00? Well, that’s just what’s going to be on offer come November 4, 2008 (aka election day). MTV… Continue Reading »
Seven new Nirvana tracks are coming to Rock Band
Previous Nirvana tracks “In Bloom” from the first Rock Band soundtrack and “Drain You” from the Rock Band 2 soundtrack will be joined by seven additional Nirvana tracks later this month, according to a recent press release issued by Harmonix and MTV Games. The new tracks will be available for… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Live Coverage of E3 2009
The Gamertell team brings us live coverage from the E3 Expo.
Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.



