Antonio Bolfo was an animator at Harominx, working on video games such as Guitar Hero. Then, with the legacy of September 11 on his mind, he joined the New York Police Department. He started bringing a camera along and snapped photos of the police at work. And then he left the force and made photography his main gig. More »
Music isn’t a visual art-form, and many amazing musicians, from Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Roul Midón have created incredible sounds despite (or possibly even enhanced by) their inability to see. More »
Because Rock Band’s existing library just isn’t punishing enough, Harmonix will be releasing Rush’s epic 2112 as downloadable content for the game over the next week. More »
Viacom is fighting an order to pay Rock Band makers Harmonix Music Systems $US383 million, or a bit more than half of the money sought by the former shareholders in a long-running legal dispute over unpaid bonuses. More »
Rock Band celebrated its fourth birthday last week and, to celebrate, Harmonix has released some videos that go into detail on the process of creating the game, and the struggles involved in actually shipping to retail. As a huge Rock Band fan with over 400 downloadable songs on my PS3 hard drive, I find this whole thing fascinating. Last week was the story of how Rock Band came to be, but this story is about how hardware issues almost doomed the franchise to catastrophic failure. More »
In October of 2007, Rock Band hit rock bottom, crashing its car into a tree in an alcohol-soaked haze. It was then it knew it had to turn things around. On November 20, 2007, Harmonix introduced it to the world and changed everything. More »
A couple of weeks ago, Dance Central and Rock Band studio Harmonix was being advised–by someone from the company that sold it off–to make “the world’s first immersive shoot-’em-up,” using Kinect. Today, the firm reported it is doing juuuuust fine by sticking to the rhythm genre. More »
Honestly, this interview — by Alex Navarro, ex-Harmonix employee — is one of the best I’ve ever read and absolutely deserves to be read in full. In this wide ranging interview with his former employers they discuss the past and future of Harmonix and Rock Band, and broach the subject of the relationship with Activision and Bobby Kotick. More »
I’ve never totally gotten the appeal of Wii dancing games, though clearly there are a whole ton of Just Dance fans out there who disagree. This new ad for Harmonix’s just-released Dance Central 2 takes a humorous dig at Wii games and their obsolescence in the face of full motion-tracking. More »
