Beatles Backers Bet Badly, Sales Simply Simmer
The Beatles: Rock Band was promised as a messiah that would lift video gaming from the depths of an industry slump, but instead, it moved only a merely respectable number of boxes for a top title. Figures come in at just under 600,000 copies for September. Sales are expected to continue, however, with upcoming DLC offerings and a growing awareness amongst the Your Parents market that the Beatles game exists.
I put it down to the characters in the game looking like rubber chickens with bowl cuts flopping around the screen.
Oh, and Halo 3: ODST sold 1.5 million boxes in the same month. Just throwing that out there.
Rock Band U2 Finally Considers Promoting Themselves, Thinks About Video Games
Aging rockers U2 recently admitted they would like to follow in the footsteps of other aging rockers by appearing in one of the latest guitar games. Although the Rock Band franchise approached U2 some time ago, the band turned them down. U2 bassist Adam Clayton says that a new deal could be worked out.
“We definitely would like to be in there, but we felt some of the compromises weren’t what we wanted. That could change. I love the idea that that’s where people are getting music, and we’d love to be in that world.”
Expect any future U2 Rock Band game to take place in a tour through Africa’s slums.
Iggy Pop, David Bowie Get Really Small Together
Lego Rock Band. Just let that thought sink in for a moment.
Iggy Pop and David Bowie will both feature as horrible, yellow mutant versions of themselves in the upcoming Lego Rock Band title. Read more at USA Today.
Beatles: Rock Band to Drop Sep. 9,Viacom Betting 10-Mil in Royalties on Sales
I can safely say there is an end to the wasteland desert that was gaming these past months, as a cool ocean breeze wafts in from the coast. New titles have arrived on sailing ships from lands afar; Madden, Batman, and soon, the Beatles. Combined with price cuts on the Xbox 360 and PS3, gaming is set to surge ahead as the top consumer of our time, outpacing family, friends, and religion by a wide margin.
Beatles: Rock Band is an interesting title. The Beatles are, of course, the most powerful and moneymaking band in history. But the audience for this upcoming title, by and large, wasn’t even born yet when Yoko broke up the Beatles. It’s an open question if Our Gaming Generation will respond to a band they’ve never …
Music Games Rise as Music Industry Falls, and Something About The Beatles
Music games are an interesting story in the world of video gaming. Born from the niche genre of rhythm games, this new species evolved a spine of hardened rock & roll, and now it wades tall through the protozoic soup of those ancient seas. Now, music gaming showcases new bands, brings classic rock to those who might never have come to appreciate it, and, in the end, the muscled back of music gaming is straining with clenched tendons to carry the music industry as a whole.
Music sales have fallen, the industry itself — a bloating corpse-beast of greed and ego and control — is shaking under the weight of new channels for pumping music and videos directly into the public’s collective veins. Without their winding chains locking up every opening in the gates between musician and listener, the music industry can no longer support the …
Gorillaz Go To Rock Band
The Fake Guitar Wars that have so divided our nation’s youth show no sign of stopping, and even now Harmonix has prepared another salvo to rake across the bow of its competition. Rock Band has grabbed the Gorillaz.
Gorillaz, being an entirely fake band, is a wonderful choice for a fake guitar game. According to this thread on the Rock Band forums, the songs “Feel Good, Inc,” “Clint Eastwood,” and “Re-Hash” will make their debut in the latest round of downloadable content. The release date is set for August 11 to 13, depending on your choice of console.
Oh, and Harmonix also threw in some songs from people who choked to death on their own vomit during a drug-induced coma before you were even born, if you care about such things.
Music Video Games Boost Sales for Featured Artists
Gee, turns out the video gaming world, a vast demographic with alot of disposable cash, really does buy music. This is something the music industry is discovering for themselves as the album sales of bands that show up in fake-rock music games have doubled over the past year. Not only is the industry taking notice, but the bands are, too. Locking in a track on Guitar Hero or Rock Band might be worth mad bank to an older band, but to a newbie group just off the club scene, that kind of exposure can be the start of a career.
Music video game sales have doubled in the past year, reaching nearly 2-billion in the human dollars. That’s less than traditional music sales, who pulled down about 10-billion in the big monies, but as CD sales decline, music games are catching up fast. In a few …
Rock Band Bags the Beatles
Although the battle of the fake bands has been heating up for some time, Harmonix has taken things to an entirely new level by signing up the Beatles to their popular Rock Band series. The result will be a game pack that lets you pay good money to pretend to play the timeless Beatles classics that you’ve already paid good money for on tape, then CD, then a second CD after the dog chewed up the first.
“It gives me great pleasure to be part of the Beatles/Rock Band partnership,” said former Beatle Ringo Starr, “Once again, the gig I lucked into over 30 years ago will keep my aging, careerless ass in money.”
The computer company, Apple, who gave their blessing for this use of the Beatle’s music in the project could not be reached for a quote as they were too busy shoveling fistfuls of …
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