Have you ever found yourself wondering what a statistical breakdown of all the songs in Rock Band 2 might look like while in the midst of one of the game's heavy metal power solos? Admittedly, that's not the most hard rockingest thing we've ever heard -- still, you may want to point your mathematica...

Warner Music are just spoiling for a fight! Having had a public falling-out with Guitar Hero publishers Activision last year, this year its Rock Band publishers MTV Games' turn. At the root of the issue is the complaint Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. has that music game publishers aren't ...

Ubisoft lost publishing bigwig Jay Cohen last week, a key decision maker for the French mega-publisher. Kind of a big deal? Yes, especially since Cohen has since reportedly jumped ship to Jerry Bruckheimer's game label. According to Variety's The Cut Scene, the former Ubisoft vet is now gainfully em...

Selections from Nirvana's breakthrough album, Nevermind, are offered up as this week's content for the Wii's Rock Band music store. As we pointed out last October, when these tracks released on XBM and PSN, notable songs from Nevermind that are unavailable to download are "Come as You Are" and "Smel...

Filed under: Rhythm, Business The NPD Group has tallied up all of the SKUs for Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour -- both multi-instrument packs and separate games -- and found that Activision / Neversoft's rocker came out on top with 3.4 million units sold last year, twice the number achieved b...

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm Rock Band 2 could provide download access to all of the tracks featured on the original Rock Band disc, according IGN Xbox 360 Editor Nate Ahearn. Responding to comments made by a poster in an IGN Insider "Grudge Match" that pits Rock Band ...

Yes, a heaping helping of The Who is coming to Rock Band next month. It won't be "Who's Next," as originally planned, but the week of July 15th, you'll get a consolation line-up of classic Who jams, including three selections from "Who's Next." The Who's official web site has announced the full list...

Justin Timberlake has got involved with a new MTV gameshow: Justin Timberlake is set to put his music career on the back burner and produce a new reality game show for MTV. Somehow, we're finding it hard to believe that Timberlake's production role is going to be so hands-on that it might stop his m...

You'll have at least two more options for getting your hands on free tracks for Rock Band, as a pair of new promotions from Best Buy and Comedy Central promise to boost your song collection for "free." As Shacknews points out, Disturbed fans can get access to a pair of the band's downloadables by pr...

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm Reaction to Rock Band's European pricing -- the equivalent of about $360 combined (instrument bundle and game are sold separately) -- has been swift and vocal. For example, Guitar Hero III (with guitar) costs £65, while a Rock Band ga...