Rock Band 2

Reading the reviews of Rock Band 2 makes me really want to play it. You guys want to have a Rock Band 2 party soon?

Rock Band timed Xbox 360 exclusive?

On his blog Game/Life Chris Kohler has been speculating for the past few days that Rock Band could become a timed Xbox 360 exclusive. At first, he had no evidence but relied on the fact that the PS2 timed exclusive of Guitar Hero 2 didn't impact the sales of the Xbox 360 version of the game. Next, he had a scan of the invite he was sent for the Rock Band E3 event which had an Xbox 360 logo but lacked one for the PS3. Now, he found in last night's PS3 price drop press sheet there was a list of the major third party releases for the PS3... and Rock Band wasn't on the list. Now this could just be a coincidence, but I think he may be on to something. Sony doesn't have the install base to support such an expensive game and since timed releases haven't hurt Harmonix in the past, why should they be worried now?

I'm very curious to see if he is right on this one.

Rock Band Drums

Game Informer Magazine published an "artists rendition" of what the rock band drums are going to look like based on a prototype that Harmonix let them play. Check it out:


The text on this image is a little hard to read, so I'll go ahead and tell you that it says that the red pad on the far left is your snare and the yellow, blue, and green pads to it's right serve as multipurpose toms or cymbals. The yellow pad is usually the hi-hat when needed, and the green pad on the far right is often the crash cymbal. The set comes with real wooden drum sticks.