Rock Band 3 Zone

Rock Band 3 Keyboard – Piano Icon spotted!

Matt — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:32:27 +0000

Wow! The Rock Band: Green Day demo teases this little image when you quit the game. Looks like Rock Band 3 is going to live up to the “VERY BIG” claim.

Wonder how much the complete Rock Band 3 Band Set will cost now?

Rock Band 3 will be Big, VERY BIG

Matt — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:57:40 +0000

Harmonix Lead Designer on Rock Band 3, Dan Teasdale, has said “you’ll be surprised at just how big this game really is.” What does that mean? Will this game introduce more musical modes to help people learn music? It looks like Harmonix is trying to position themselves as the #1 innovator in the field. This is important with the real playable guitar that Power Gig: Rise of the SixString will be introducing later this year. We’ll see, in a few weeks, what Harmonix is cooking up when they reveal more.

Stay tuned for updates!

Rock Band 3 to show at E3

Matt — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:33:18 +0000

On May 20th, in Los Angeles, Harmonix will be premiering Rock Band 3 to only a select few E3 judges. Lets hope they release some good gameplay footage and new features.

Harmonix Partners Up With Mad Catz

Matt — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:18:56 +0000

Mad Catz & Harmonix have struck quite a deal, they will now be the “principal peripherals partner” for the Rock Band series going forward. All the goodies that will come with your Rock Band 3 bundles will indeed be produced by Mad Catz. No third-party status! This is great news for Rock Band fans. Look for the first official Rock Band 3 instruments to be a little sturdier than the previous Harmonix-made guitars, mics & drums.

Do you own any Mad Catz products? Is this a good move by Harmonix?

Song Stats in RB3! The More The Better

Matt — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:15:53 +0000

One thing that fans have been craving since Rock Band 2 was released is a more-detailed song selection screen. Sure, the current screen gives you information about the track, but players want to be able to see an accurate score, along with the amount of stars they have achieved on each song. While Rock Band 2 left this feature out, The Beatles: Rock Band and Lego Rock Band successfully implemented such a system.

Wouldn’t be great if Rock Band 3 kept track of your progress, too? Pull up a song and get your score history. See what your best % is on that tough solo, your best note streak, etc. There are many great websites that let you put in all those stats and track it, (like ScoreHero.com) but how sweet would it be if the game integrated that kind of database? It seems simple enough.

Green Day: Rock Band – No DLC, RB3 Band?

Matt — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:14:07 +0000

Chris Foster of Harmonix has said this about the open-ended DLC possibilities in Green Day: Rock Band that we loved so much with Beatles: Rock Band,

That’s something that’s not really practical to do open-ended.

Oh well – how is this significant for those looking forward to Rock Band 3? Well, it looks like any additional Green Day tracks that were not included in their game will be saved for RB3 when it’s released this holiday season.

Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Perfect Rock Band 3 Song?

Matt — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:13:13 +0000

Do you know bands that have had some DLC or been in Guitar Hero or RB before, but haven’t released one of their huge hits for a game? That is a good place to look for bands that might be in Rock Band 3. For instance, Queen had a huge pack released as DLC, but arguably their biggest hit, “Bohemian Rhapsody” was excluded. While many people argue it’s just because the track would not translate well into gameplay, looking at it from a marketing standpoint will tell you that there would be no better way to promote Rock Band 3’s new vocal harmonies feature than to include one of the most well known harmony parts in the history of rock music in the game.

Though not many details are known, through looking at clues and trends left by Harmonix and other parties, it is quite easy to speculate and feel as though you aren’t very far off from the possible truth. There are many new features that were brought to the forefront with The Beatles: Rock Band and Lego Rock Band that would fit very nicely into the formula of Rock Band 3. The question is, which of those features would make the transition and which ones would be left on the cutting room floor?

Stone Temple Pilots will be in Rock Band 3

Matt — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:53:44 +0000

A Billboard magazine cover story on STP leaked a nice little nugget of information:

In addition to licensing STP music for the upcoming "Rock Band 3" and "Guitar Hero 6," Dufine says that she’s targeting synchs for programs like "True Blood," "Gossip Girl" and "Vampire Diaries."

What Stone Temple Pilot song would you like to see in Rock Band 3?

Rock Band 3 Bands – Look to Recent DLC

Matt — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:07:56 +0000

As far as songs that will be included on the Rock Band 3 disc, speculators need not look any further than bands that were recently released as DLC. With popular artists like Lady Gaga, Carrie Underwood, Foo Fighters, Megadeth, White Stripes, Alice in Chains, and Tom Petty making appearances as Rock Band DLC, it only seems logical that some of their as-of-yet excluded tracks be released on disc.

Also worth mentioning would be the several bands that claimed that they would be featured in upcoming Rock Band games, like U2 and The Who. Even though they claimed they would each be receiving their own Rock Band title devoted to their band (like The Beatles and Green Day before them), it is entirely possible that Harmonix will opt to simply motion capture the members of each band for Rock Band 3 in order to fulfill their wishes.

Do you have some guesses on bands that will have tracks in RockBand3?

Leaked: Rock Band 3 will have Vocal Harmonies

Matt — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:50:23 +0000

It’s been highly speculated that Rock Band 3 will include harmonies, something that was included in The Beatles: Rock Band and will be included in Green Day: Rock Band, but were conspicuously absent from Rock Band, Rock Band 2, and Lego Rock Band. If the feature is implemented, it is unclear as to how Harmonix would handle previous songs that feature harmonies within them (such as the Simon and Garfunkel tracks). Would Harmonix rechart them to include harmonies, or would it simply be affecting tracks moving forward?

FORGET THE SPECULATION! Chris Foster of Harmonix let slip, at PAX East 2010, that Rock Band 3 will have vocal harmonies. So the feature introduced in Beatles: Rock Band will live on with the next huge release from the Cambridge, MA based video game developers.

Buy an extra microphone now if you see a good deal somewhere.

What are some great rock songs with vocal harmonies that you want to see in Rock Band 3?