Music Fans, Wanna be Rockstars and Karaoke Lovers this is your week! Guitar Hero II for the Xbox360 and SingStar Pop finally hit retail stores across the country. KidConfidence also received more details on a new game called “Rock Band” by Harmonix, MTV and EA.
Rock Band is an all-new platform for music fans and gamers to interact with music like never before. Rock Band will allow gamers to perform music from the world’s biggest rock artists with their friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and microphone peripherals, in addition to offering deep online connectivity. Built on unprecedented deals with the world’s biggest record labels and music publishers, the music featured in Rock Band will span all genres of rock and include many of the master recordings from the biggest songs and artists of all time. Rock Band is slated for release on PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft in Holiday 2007.
The leading music publishers – EMI Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music – are allowing unrivaled access to their catalogs of incredible songs for use in Rock Band. The record labels – EMI Recorded Music, Hollywood Records, Rhino Entertainment (Warner Music Group), Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group – have agreed to supply master recordings by their renowned artists for use in the game.
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