OMG

Also RB Blitz can be addictive, but 'busy'. I want it for some songs.

So need to get a points card to get Blitz.

Very happy with the LP stuff. Died in Your Arms Tonight is fun. Dog Days Are Over is also nice and mellow.

The Offspring – “Days Go By” O X
Smash Mouth – “Why Can’t We Be Friends” O
Smash Mouth – “Can’t Get Enough of You Baby” O

O - Keys
X - Pro Guitar/Bass

There's apparently a huge Rock Band sale with over 1100 tracks discounted.

is there a link to just the discounted tracks?

*edit*

Here is it.

http://www.rockband.com/content-asse...aleGraphic.pdf

seems like it's 90% of the official dlc is on sale. nothing from rbn. don't see recent stuff from the last month or two.

4 days after i threw down 1600 pts on this shiz.

oh well!

http://www.rockband.com/content-asse...aleGraphic.pdf

This PDF is the only one I know of right now. It's from the official announcement.

oh sorry dickhead i have foiled your plan to look nice and helpful

Damn. I will have my revenge!

really guys, do we need three fucking links for the same thing!? REALLY!?

over my malfunctioning keyboard

you are a cheater and i have subsequently reported you

i edited my post three minutes before your post, so suck on these balls TWO TIME

...but it did just sit there before i actually submitted the edit. Maybe during that time you were all set. Whatever.

post a picture of you and your dog editing that post 3 minutes before mine, with a tpww sign

until then, i refuse to believe you

This game's training modes are awesome. Fighting games should take note. Also:


Green Day – “Brain Stew/Jaded”
Green Day – “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
Green Day – “Warning”
Green Day – “Minority”
Green Day – “Oh Love” O

Post a picture opf Green Day's d...Oh, never mind.

Kind of like taking the on-disc only stuff and releasing it for optional purchase. Now do Boulevard of Broken Dreams, because it's the only track I really want.

exactly. i dont want 40 green day songs. but there are a good 7-8 i would buy. jesus of suburbia, bunch of shit off dookie.

A Flock of Seagulls – “I Ran (So Far Away)” O
Billy Squier – “The Stroke” X O
Billy Squier – “Everybody Wants You” O

There's keys in 'Animal?

No clue, but they've mislabeled before.

I have recently rediscovered this game, thanks to my roomates joining in the fun.

First time I've ever played with other people on a consistent level. No high scores will be broken, as we always play after a lot of drinking, but whatever. The best is doing road challenges, and seeing someone who is into jimmy buffet and grateful dead sing a random setlist and get children of bodom.

We play regularly and this game is insta-fun. We need new guitar controllers, though, and hell if you find one now that the genre is dead.

As long as harmonix keeps releasing new tracks, I don't care how dead it is.

Just bought the bush pack. Sixteen Syone ftw. Though they need to put out Glycerine.

Kal's point, erroneous as it is, is about the difficulty in finding the actual hardware (guitars in this case) so you can play the game. Because unfortunately, the DLC is useless without the peripherals to play it.

But still, Mad Catz makes everything (even if they are out of guitar controllers right now) and there's a major second-hand market of perfect good fake guitars.

I need a PayPal account because all the kiddies on Ebay use it, and there seems to be some guitars on Ebay. The only thing here locally is the Legends of Rock guitar, which I guess would be fine for whoever's on bass. Aiming for the Stratocaster for lead. Also need a new mic, a second mic stand, and a blue cymbal.

That reminds me, I've been meaning to get Legends of Rock if it's cheap enough.

Not interested in the game, but I'll have to deal with it since the guitar comes with the game. Nothing but bundles here.

I wanted to play the game, but it wasn't worth full price. Or thirty dollars.

Surprised they even have bundles, mind.

Jokes on them, places are trying to get rid of the things. Might be worth screwing with whatever studio mode they got, but I hope I can resell it somewhere. Like the next day.

Big update for Green Day fans (And two Kenny Loggins Tracks)

* Kenny Loggins – “I’m Alright”
* Kenny Loggins – “Footloose” O X

Price:

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

“Green Day Pack 04”

* Green Day – “Geek Stink Breath”
* Green Day – “Nice Guys Finish Last”
* Green Day – “Hitchin’ a Ride”

Price:

$5.49 USD, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points™, 550 Wii Points™) for the “Green Day Pack 04”

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (Note: Songs available as singles only on Wii)

* “Song of the Century”
* “21st Century Breakdown”
* “Know Your Enemy”
* “¡Viva la Gloria!”
* “Before the Lobotomy”
* “Christian’s Inferno”
* “Last Night on Earth”
* “East Jesus Nowhere”
* “Peacemaker”
* “Last of the American Girls”
* “Murder City”
* “¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)”
* “Restless Heart Syndrome”
* “Horseshoes and Handgrenades”
* “The Static Age”
* “21 Guns”
* “American Eulogy”
* “See the Light”

Price:

$19.99 USD, £9.99 UK, €14.99 EU (1600 Microsoft Points™) for the “21st Century Breakdown (Album)”

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

Green Day – American Idiot

* “American Idiot” X
* “Jesus of Suburbia”
* “Holiday”
* “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
* “Are We the Waiting/St. Jimmy”
* “Give Me Novacaine/She’s a Rebel”
* “Extraordinary Girl”
* “Letterbomb”
* “Wake Me Up When September Ends”
* “Homecoming”
* “Whatsername”

Price:

$17.99 USD, £8.99 UK, €13.49 EU (1440 Microsoft Points™, 1800 Wii Points™) for the “American Idiot (Album)”

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

Green Day – Dookie

* “Burnout”
* “Having a Blast”
* “Chump”
* “Longview”
* “Welcome to Paradise”
* “Pulling Teeth”
* “Basketcase”
* “She”
* “Sassafras Roots”
* “When I Come Around” X
* “Coming Clean”
* “Emenius Sleepus”
* “In the End”
* “F.O.D.”

Price:

$19.99 USD, £9.99 UK, €14.99 EU (1600 Microsoft Points™, 2000 Wii Points™) for the “Dookie (Album)”

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

Foot Loose woooooo

Dookie might be a purchase. Couple tracks I remember liking from American Idiot as well. Don't care for the new stuff.

Wish Basketcase was a pro guitar song. Be much more fun to play it.

Rock Band Blitz is pretty fucking fun.

It's cool, I see it as a damn good track pack in itself.

The tracks are the main reason I bought it. But it's quite fun in itself.

“The Bitch is Back” – Elton John O
“Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” – Elton John O
“I’m Still Standing” – Elton John O

Looks like I've got to replace my RB2 guitar, it refuses to sync despite trying with new batteries and different XBOX consoles.

You've pressed the button on the Xbox and everything?

Yeah, there's no response.

I did some looking around online and found some similar reports (some people having this happen straight out of the box), and it looks like I've just got a dead guitar now.

Wish you luck finding a new one. I never found a new RB guitar.

Got to get this, but I'm waiting for the BL2 season pass.

That's rough. My RB2 guitars both survived being drowned in a fire. One's buttons are slightly less responsive, but meh.

Every time I do John Lennon's "Imagine" I have a habit of looking off to the like the B camera is there. And that's not even the wackiest 'living the performance' thing I've ever done.

I jump off my XBox 360 and do slashing windmills.

Some stuff from My Chemical Romance this week.

This week's more Rock Band Blitz tracks as DLC. I still think RBB is the better value, but it's cool that you can buy individual tracks.

Hoping that Queen's "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)" is released as part of a pack like they did with MCR and Elton John. Also hoping for a pro track. Don't really care about most of the tracks being released unless they do see pro guitar upgrades for certain tracks (and they say they have six in the works). You know, since I have them all.

Rick Springfield – “Jessie’s Girl” O X 1
Rick Springfield – “I’ve Done Everything For You” X
Rick Springfield – “Don’t Talk to Strangers” O

Some cool ones in there.

Awaiting the lift from Metallica's exclusive deal with Activision so we can get a massive Metallica pack.

Pro guitar met songs could be funnnn.

Extreme – “More Than Words” X
Nazareth – “Love Hurts”
Peter Cetera – “Glory of Love” O
REO Speedwagon – “Keep On Loving You” O
Soft Cell – “Tainted Love” O

Wish it was a better Extreme song.

After More Than Five Years of Weekly Updates, Rock Band DLC Will Cease This April

by Alex Navarro on <time datetime="2013-02-18" pubdate="pubdate" itemprop="datePublished">February 18, 2013</time>

With 275 straight weeks of downloadable content under its belt, Harmonix is shifting its focus elsewhere.

<figure data-align="right" data-size="medium" data-img-src="http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/39/2437641-rockbandstoremain.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2437641" data-resize-url="" data-resized="" data-embed-type="image">http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/...dstoremain.jpg<figcaption>I remember when the Rock Band music store was little more than a handful of Metallica songs, a couple of David Bowie tracks, and a weird cover version of Blur's "Beetlebum."


</figcaption></figure>Reliable constants in the game industry are something of a rarity, and few of them have been more constant over the last five years than Rock Band's weekly downloadable content. For 275 straight weeks, Harmonix has been pumping out additional track downloads for whatever version of Rock Band (save for The Beatles Rock Band, for obvious reasons) you might own.

Every week, a minimum of a track or two--or, in several cases, entire albums worth--would appear on the various online stores, and those who still played these plastic instrument games would eagerly await the chance to pay a few bucks for new songs. Of course, the numbers of those players have dwindled in recent years, as Harmonix and the game industry as a whole have shifted toward other trends, concepts, and projects. As a result, it wasn't difficult to see what was coming.

Yes, Harmonix has today announced that Rock Band DLC will be coming to an end. April 2nd will be the last official DLC release day for all Rock Band platforms. The studio hasn't yet announced what the final track(s) will be, but undoubtedly we will hear the Friday prior, as we regularly have for the last several years of our lives.

It's maybe slightly insane to think about a developer, largely of its own volition, braving the various labyrinthine content submission processes of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo on a weekly basis, just to keep players flush with new music, for all these years. But Harmonix has done it, week in and week out, since late 2007. Over the course of that time, the studio released over 4,000 songs for the larger Rock Band platform. Some of those, of course, came from the Rock Band Network crowd-sourcing initiative, and as it turns out, that particular platform will remain. However, it will only remain on the Xbox 360, where the XNA infrastructure has allowed would-be note trackers to license, build, and sell songs for the platform. On the PlayStation 3 and Wii, where Harmonix had manually added tracks from the 360 RBN store, RBN songs will no longer appear.

As we speed toward the next generation of consoles, this move was perhaps inevitable. There was never much hope that we'd see a new Rock Band sequel on a new platform any time soon, and with Harmonix finding success elsewhere with the Dance Central franchise, and presumably working on other, non-franchised products, Rock Band's DLC initiative felt more and more like a zombie of itself, something that continued to push on for reasons it seemed barely aware of any longer. While last year's Rock Band Blitz made for a potent reminder of just what a ludicrous amount of money many of us have spent on Rock Band DLC over the years, as well as how much fun said content could be, it wasn't an indicator of some forthcoming Rock Band resurgence. In reality, it turned out to be a kind of last hurrah for the series.

According to Harmonix's official posting on the matter, the last several weeks of DLC will see the last remaining Rock Band Blitz songs added to the official DLC library, along with several artists who have yet to appear in the Rock Band catalog. I wouldn't hold out hope for Led Zeppelin or anything, but maybe we can cross our fingers for some Electric Light Orchestra, at least. Or perhaps maybe a Hum song or two. That's not too much to ask for, is it?

Harmonix has been clear that they have upcoming prpojects, none of which are Rock Band titles, so while this disappoints, it's not shocking.

This day was certainly coming eventually. Pretty sweet deal for years, though.

I was still kind of hoping for Rock Band 4 one of these days. Still, I knew that hope was slim.

That's probably still going down, maybe some dramatic return next gen.

I'm sort of doubting it.

But at the same time, I wonder if sales of DLC might have been hampered by limited availability of instruments.

I haven't bought any DLC in ages and this still makes me quite sad.

I just bought Aerosmith DLC. The fact that we finally get Aerosmith only at the end of the franchise's run with DLC (Well, sort of) saddens me.

At least you got that. I pretty much gotta give up anymore Metallica.

:(

True.

The Flys – “Got You (Where I Want You) X
Queensrÿche – “Silent Lucidity” O
Staind – “It’s Been Awhile”
Staind – “So Far Away” O

Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" drops Tuesday with keys and pro guitar.

LOL

...Seriously, that's cool.

I'm so buying it.

That is so 80's, it deserves it's own Keytar peripheral merely on principal.

You can use the keyboard controller that way. Has a strap for just that.

So do RBN songs with Pro Keys not have a "train" option?

I only have one I know of, and there's a practice option, but I like the "train" option. Especially since you can go ten percent slower. Very useful for dense sections with real notes.

Don't know, never got a RBN song with keys in it. It may be something they could do but choose not to due to the extra programming involved.

Meanwhile, the final Rock Band official DLC was revealed:

"American Pie"

Holy shit.

Yeah.

Really funny 'why didn't I ever think of this for Rock Band' moment.

Really? Because I was hoping for it since they announced keys. After all, Band Hero had it.

January 13th, 2015:

Arctic Monkeys – "R U Mine?"
Avenged Sevenfold – "Shepherd Of Fire"
Foo Fighters – "Something From Nothing"

And I'm not even trolling.

I like Shepard of Fire and Something From Nothing.

Here's hoping this takes off again, and we can get more full albums.

Does anyone still play this?

I played my keys a month or two ago. I'd play more but I need a new guitar. Also a mic stand.

Feb. 17th:

Tenacious D - "Rize of the Fenix"
Weezer - "Back to the Shack"