Archive for November, 2008

Rock Band DLC Week Of November 11th »

This week Rock Band owners will be able to download the Foo Fighters second album ‘The Colour And The Shape’ which was originally released in 1997.
‘The Colour and the Shape’ featured the hit singles “Monkey Wrench”, “Everlong”, and “My Hero”.
The track “Everlong” will not be part of the download however as the song is on […]

Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2 Is Coming »

Harmonix and MTV announced last week that a follow up to the first Rock Band Track Pack would be hitting store shelves later this month. Like the first track pack, volume 2 will also feature 20 songs, but the disk will also be available for all consoles hitting the PS3 and 360 in addition […]

Former Guitar Hero Publicist In Newest Playboy »

Grace Kim, former PR rep for Activision and Red Octane in promoting the Guitar Hero franchise, has been selected as Playmate of the Month in the November issue of Playboy.
Grace graduated from UCLA with an english degree in 2001 and parlayed that into a career in public relations, eventually landing a job with Activision.
In fact […]

Beatles DLC Will Not Be Coming To Rock Band »

Don’t expect to see Beatles DLC for Rock Band to celebrate the release of an upcoming Beatles music gameWhen it was announced that Harmonix had acquired the rights to work on a music game featuring the Beatles, many a Rock Band fan were hoping that Beatles songs would become available to download for Rock Band.
Reuters […]

Heidi Klum Playing Guitar Hero World Tour. HOT! »

These two commercials aired during Monday Night Football and follow the same theme as the other ‘Risky Business’ commercials for Guitar Hero World Tour.
The first one features Heidi Klum playing Guitar Hero World Tour in a white T-Shirt.  The second one features Ms. Klum playing (and jiggling) without the white T-Shirt.
The first one is below, […]

Harmonix Working On Secret Title »

Play.tm had an interview with Rock Band 2’s lead designer, Dan Teasdale of Harmonix, who mentioned that he is working on a new title, and it’s not the recently announced game featuring the Beatles.
“I’m working on another new project that I can’t tell you about yet.” Teasdale told Play.tm
Teasdale also talks about how Harmonix had […]

Guitar Hero Political Cartoon »

This fantastic cartoon comes from the Canadian political satire cartoonist J.J. McCullough who runs the site Filibuster.
Based on the description of the cartoon it is trying to illustrate just how far behind John McCain is behind Barack Obama in the American Presidential election polling.  I think it also speaks volumes to the perception of both […]