Monthly Archives: January 2010

6 Bands Adding to Rock Band Next Week

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Rock Band‘s DLC (or Guitar Hero‘s for that matter) usually includes 4 bands max per release. Next week however, it will be getting 6 bands total. Classic rockers Nazareth, Motörhead, Hawkwind, and Blue Öyster Cult will be in the mix along with Rage Against the Machine. This pack will be ready for download next week.

Available on Xbox 360 and Wii (Jan. 26) and PlayStation 3 system (Jan. 28):

-Blue Öyster Cult – “Godzilla”

-Blue Öyster Cult – “Transmaniacon MC”

-Hawkwind – “Master of the Universe”

-I Mother Earth – “Levitate”

-Motörhead – “Killed by Death ’08”

-Nazareth – “Hair of the Dog” (2008 re-recording)

-Rage Against the Machine – “Bulls on Parade”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and on Wii on Jan. 26. These tracks will be available Jan. 28 for PlayStation 3.
Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points) per track

SingStar Viewer now on PlayStation Store

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Playstation today announced a new tool for you to belt out your favorite songs. They said:

Today, we’re pleased to announce the availability of SingStar Viewer, a great new SingStar application available later today on the PlayStation Store.

With SingStar Viewer, you can browse and purchase songs from the SingStore, as well as watch, rate and review uploaded video clips, photos and profiles in the MySingStarOnline community – all without having to load a SingStar disc in your PS3.

Anyone with a PSN account will be able to download SingStar Viewer for free from the PlayStation Store and see what’s going on in the SingStar community and SingStore. Once downloaded, SingStar Viewer will sit on your XMB under the ‘Games’ category for quick access to the online community. If you’re already a SingStar owner and member of MySingStarOnline, then you can purchase from SingStore, rate video clips and leave comments for other players and interact with the SingStar community.

Check out the video of the tool in action.

Total Xbox Live Usage Passes 17bn Hours

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No one can say Microsoft is really losing any kind of battle against Nintendo and the Wii, because the Xbox 360 manufacturer today announced that the total amount of Xbox Live usage to date has surpassed 17 billion hours.

To give a sense of perspective, that’s more than two hours per person on the planet, according to Microsoft employee Trixie360′s Twitter. It’s also 2 million years. Wow. That almost seems like too much, right? Well it came from over 20 million XBL subscribers that have logged around 850 hours each. Also according to Trixie360, the XBL Marketplace has racked up 1.2 billion downloads, which is about 100 per second.