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Twitch Partners with Harmonix for Karaoke Livestream Game
Be the Next Online Karaoke Superstar Rock Band maker Harmonix is teaming up with streaming platform Twitch to bring ‘Twitch Sings’. The game is a livestreaming karaoke-style game that lets singers interact with viewers in real time. Viewers will be able to cheer, provide challenges to the player and even…
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Harmonix Claims Rock Band 4’s PC Audience is Too Small
Earlier today, we reported on the news that Rock Band’s 4 Fig campaign had ended and only managed to amass 52 percent of the whopping $1.5 million target. Since then, Harmonix has released a final update explaining why they believe the crowdfunding campaign wasn’t a successful venture and said: “How do…
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Rock Band 4 PC Crowdfunding Campaign Has Failed
The Rock Band franchise provides hours of entertainment for music lovers and proved to be a popular pastime with close friends. Learning an instrument is very challenging and requires a patient approach. Furthermore, to master any instrument takes years of experience and a huge commitment. As someone who plays the…
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Crowdfunding Campaign Hopes to Bring Rock Band 4 to PC
Remember when we reviewed Rock Band 4 review and we brought you the bad news that it would only be coming to consoles? Well, it looks like we might have been wrong, as Harmonix are pushing to find a way to bring the plastic instrument madness to PC! While the game didn’t…
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Harmonix Staff Have Been Posting Positive Reviews of Rock Band 4 on Amazon
Rock Band 4 has received fairly positive critical acclaim although the user-response is quite mixed. In the last few years, community media via Twitch, Steam Reviews and Amazon Reviews have helped inform consumers when deliberating a game purchase. Many are distrustful of the mainstream gaming print media, and prefer to…
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Rock Band 4 – A New Era of Rhythm Gaming
Plastic instruments around the world have been slowly working their way into people’s garages and lofts for the last couple of years, ever since the great rhythm game boom slowly died off and became stagnant. It was a great time, I owned many of the games and practically had an…
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Van Halen “Jump” Into Rock Band 4
Rock Band 4’s music library includes a wealth of iconic artists including Aerosmith, Avenged Sevenfold, The Black Keys, Elvis Presley, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, Jack White, Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars, St. Vincent, Queens of the Stone Age, The Who, and for the first time, Van Halen! On launch, fans will be…
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Rock Band 4 Pre-Orders Available and FreeStyle Guitar Unveiled
Harmonix and Mad Catz have partnered up for the newest Rockband game and the fourth in the series, that is old news. What is new is the reveal of the Freestyle Guitar Solo gameplay, something everyone is understandably excited about. When you think of rock music, you need guitar solos…
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We May Not See a PC Release for Rock Band 4 and Here’s Why
We saw Rock Band 4 being announced for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 earlier this year, but how about the PC? We haven’t received any official announcements for the latter platform, up until now that is. Harmonix just announced that the latest Rock Band title will not have a PC…
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Mad Catz Will Co-Publish Rock Band 4 for PS4 and Xbox One
Mad Catz has entered the software business before, but never on as large a scale as this time. They have partnered with Harmonix and this time it’s not just for branded peripherals but the entire game. This cooperation will help to ensure that there is plenty of available stock when the…
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Rock Band 4 for Xbox One and PS4 Confirmed
Rock Band 4 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 has been confirmed by developer Harmonix Music Systems, due for release later this year. “When we stopped developing Rock Band 3 [in 2010], clearly the market needed a break,” Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix, told IGN. “But since then we’ve been…
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Is Activision Working on a new Guitar Hero?
This is music to my ears and no doubt bad news for the people who live next-door to me! It’s been four long years since Guitar Hero last graced our screens and at least two years since I rocked out with my Guitar Hero drum kit and guitars; is it…
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Harmonix Music VR Coming to Samsung Gear VR
This week we revealed to you that Samsung had teamed up with Oculus VR to release their new Gear VR mobile headset, following that we found out that Rock Band developer Harmonix was working on the device. We now know that the music game loving team are working on music…
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Harmonix Developing for Samsung Gear VR
Harmonix are well known for their work on the Rock Band and Dance Central series, and now it looks like the team are working on the newly revealed Samsung Gear VR headset, which has been created in collaboration with Oculus VR. “Harmonix is developing software for Samsung’s Gear VR,” wrote…
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