I might not approve of U2’s music or Bono’s smugness, but I can definitely get behind the band’s appraisal of music games. Essentially, they’re alright. Radical even.

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Okay, someone walk with me on this one, because I’m a little confused.
I was under the impression that the reason that Harmonix was cranking out a Lego Rock Band was to appeal to the “casual” crowd.  You know, Billy and Suzie and the soccer moms of the world, signing along to Hannah Montana and Taylor [...]

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The Beatles first conquered England, then America, next up was LSD and finally… rhythm based music video games.  The Beatles conquered them all. How did this happen? How did a game that contains only 45 tracks, all from one band, that is not particularly difficult so thoroughly rip apart everything we new about the genre [...]

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Woahwoahwoahwoah woah. Big misnomer at the start, right there. Ignore the name, ignore the boxart, ignore the setlist on the back featuring the likes of Boston, The Who and Motorhead. Rock Band Unplugged is not a Rock Band title. At all. It just isn’t a Rock Band game. Go into your local gaming store with [...]

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The rumours have been flying thick and fast around the blogosphere for quite some time but now it’s official: LEGO Rock Band is coming soon in the most unconventional, unplanned and quite frankly unnecessary franchise mashup ever conceived.
Could the LEGO game franchise get any more ludicrous? See what I think over the jump, and let [...]

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Every music game fan has a list of songs that would be perfect for Rock Band and Guitar Hero. I am no different. However, for me, two tunes stand above the rest: Megadeth’s “Peace Sells” and Styx’s “Renegade.”
Last year, Harmonix made me happier than a fat kid in a bakery when the company revealed that [...]

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Rock Band Unplugged is growing on me as more and more info’s leaked out, like a drip from a drainpipe, on what I’m calling 2009’s first must-have PSP game. EA’s delivered a smorgasbord of info this morning including a trailer, a bunch of screenshots and some deets about the game itself.
It’s all looking brilliant, if [...]

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What is it with celebrities featuredin games being seriously loose-lipped when it comes to talking about said games? In 2006 Kristen Bell managed to spoil Assassin’s Creed in its entirety; now Paul McCartney is doing it too, having blabbed about the Beatles game that is Rock Band but won’t be called Rock Band.
Find out what [...]

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Oh dear oh dear oh dear. No matter how much encouragement Forbes was given last week by gamers across the world to get their facts right about games, they don’t seem intent on taking it back. Of course, by Forbes I mean their writer, Peter C. Beller, who last week called Rock Band a shameless ripoff of [...]

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Oh, non-gaming writers, how you bemuse me with your “articles” about games. Granted, we’re probably as efficient at writing about the economy and politics as I am at cooking anything worth eating, but then you don’t see me tapping out a 1000-word report on why today’s Lloyds TSB/HBOS merger in the UK is a sad [...]

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The original “Rock Band” released in the States for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on Nov. 20, 2007. Its much-anticipated follow-up arrived the following year. There seemed to be a disturbing trend developing. The full-band simulator appeared as if it might become an annual franchise. That type of cycle, while not necessarily bad, can [...]

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Remember back at E3 2008 when Harmonix announced that it would be providing 20 free downloadable songs for the “Rock Band” platform following the release of “Rock Band 2″? Well, after months of silence, the company has revealed the release date and full list of tunes.
Hit the jump for the information you seek.

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“Rock Band 2″ has a pretty impressive soundtrack. When I say impressive, I don’t mean like saving five senior citizens from a nursing home fire. No. I mean saving five geriatrics from a nursing home fire with concrete blocks chained to your ankles. Yea, it is that awesome.
The game, which ships [...]

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