In Real Life

MTV Social Game Makes Election Season A Competition For Players, Not Just Candidates

MTV has been active in encouraging younger voters to get to the polls for well over 20 years. In 1992 they brought the “Choose or Lose” campaign to the airwaves, and in the decades since they have frequently partnered with nonprofit Rock the Vote to air initiatives encouraging 18-24 year-old voters to get to the polls and engage with the democratic process.


April 8, 2011
News

Comedy Central, Spike TV Have Their Own Video Game Company

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.


January 12, 2011
Nintendo

Rock Band Rocks More With Real Guitars

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.


December 24, 2010
Nintendo

Rock Band Creators Gone From MTV, Taking Hits With Them

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.


November 4, 2010

Review: Dance Central

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.


October 13, 2010
News

Browse The Entire Rock Band Music Library In This Post

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.


September 20, 2010
News

Konami And Harmonix End Legal Spat

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


September 15, 2010

Pro Guitar Mode Makes Rock Band 3 Harder, Socially Redeeming

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.


June 24, 2010
In Real Life

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

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.


June 10, 2010
News

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

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.