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Comedy Central, Spike TV Have Their Own Video Game Company

5:00AM April 8, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Someday, we may get The Daily Show: The Video Game or Spike TV Video Game Awards: The Game, thanks to the formation of 345 Games, the new video game arm of Comedy Central and Spike TV. The first two games to come from that studio will be Deadliest Warrior: Legends and Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon, MTV announced today.


Nintendo

Rock Band Rocks More With Real Guitars

5:30PM January 12, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

I haven’t played guitar since university, and haven’t done science since high school, so the particulars of this are lost on me. What I do know, though, is that rigging up a real electric guitar to play Rock Band is awesome. More »


Nintendo

Rock Band Creators Gone From MTV, Taking Hits With Them

5:30AM December 24, 2010 | Stephen Totilo

The people who make Rock Band and the breakout Kinect dancing game Dance Central have been sold by MTV’s parent company Viacom. But they can keep making sequels to those series, if they want to. More »


Review: Dance Central

3:40PM November 4, 2010 | Brian Crecente

Dance Central is a dancing rhythm game from the folks who created Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Packed with an eclectic mix of music and dance moves from the artists, it hopes to redefine the way we play dance games. More »


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Browse The Entire Rock Band Music Library In This Post

12:30PM October 13, 2010 | Mike Fahey

In honour of the release of Rock Band’s 2000th song, Harmonix has released a handy widget that lets you browse the entire Rock Band library from inside a blog post. For instance, this one. More »


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Konami And Harmonix End Legal Spat

10:30PM September 20, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

In 2008, Konami filed a patent lawsuit against Harmonix (and MTV and Viacom). More »


Pro Guitar Mode Makes Rock Band 3 Harder, Socially Redeeming

6:00AM September 15, 2010 | Stephen Totilo

At last, your shame will end. At last, you will be able to tell your guitar-playing friends that you too can play guitar, well sorta, thanks to Rock Band 3′s pro guitar mode. Plus, you will have learnt guitar better. More »


In Real Life

Miley Cyrus Warms Up Before Her Shows With Rock Band, Thinks It’s "Rad"

11:00AM June 24, 2010 | Brian Crecente

With her latest album Can’t Be Tamed hitting stores this week and a kick-off concert on Monday, Miley Cyrus sat down with MTV to talk about just how very rad Rock Band is now that it includes her music. More »


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Rock Band 3 Teaches You To Rock With Real Guitars & Keyboards

3:45PM June 10, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Rock Band 3 will, as expected, let you do something you’ve never been able to do in a home music game before: play the keyboard. More »


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The Perils Of One-Band Music Games

2:30PM May 13, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Music games built around a single artist can be a tricky thing to plan for, because while you’ll attract fans of that single artist, many others just won’t give a toss. Especially, it seems, when that artist is Van Halen. More »