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As if the fact that you can import all your previous Rock Band 3 DLC into Rock Band 4 wasn't enough, Harmonix have to pulled another huge feature out of the bag. Despite being Next Gen only, Rock Band 4 will be compatible with older instruments from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 days IGN report[...]

Harmonix revealed to IGN the first six songs available in the game, showing off a preference for… well, rock songs Those songs are: Avenged Sevenfold – "Hail to the King" Fleetwood Mac – "You Make Loving Fun" Jack White – "Lazaretto" The Killers – "Somebody Told Me" Spin Doctors – "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" The Who – "The Seeker" That is[...]

Harmonix are hard at work bringing back their flagship series with Rock Band 4, set to launch later this year The game will let you play with all of your Rock Band 3 DLC, on top of adding new songs to the mix That means you could potentially be starting the game with hundreds of songs ready[...]

That makes Harmonix's new Rock Band and inticing offer. However, the developer really seems to be bending over backwards to please everyone In an interview with Business Insider UK, Rock Band 4 project director Daniel Sussman, said that you may well be able to use your old Guitar Hero controllers too. We're planning to support everything that we[...]

What about Rock Band in VR? When talking to Gaming Insiders, Harmonix's CEO Steve Janiak said that he could see it On the topic of VR, he said: Harmonix prides itself on being at the forefront of new technologies VR is an intriguing frontier, and a great opportunity to fundamentally reinvent how people connect to music. For Rock[...]

Developer Harmonix have set up a page on their website to request specific songs for the upcoming Rock Band 4 Of course, there are no guarantees, but if a song is requested enough and an agreement is met with licencors, we could be seeing plenty of fan requested songs turn up in the game. So, go[...]

That's because they're all true. Harmonix announced that the game is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this year. Crucially though, if you bought tons of DLC songs on Rock Band 3, all your purchases will carry over That is pretty huge as it'll mean some players will come into the game with a massive library[...]

By Joe Cammisa [audio:http://joecam.net/SML/SML-e106.mp3] Monday night is here and it's time for The SML Podcast Episode 106: Harmonix is Snowed In, here on Bleeding Cool! Back to the guests in a big way this week as we are joined by three of the awesome guys from Harmonix, Nick Chester, Aaron Trites, and Eric Pope, as we do everything[...]

According to "a person familiar with the plan", a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of the game is incoming from developer Harmonix. There isn't much more to go on it than that Lets remember this is a rumour for now before we get our leopard skin jumpsuits out again. The question could now become, is there[...]

Last week, Harmonix unexpectedly added three new songs to Rock Band 3, a game that hadn't been touched in two years The developer mentioned that designing those songs was like riding a bike, no matter how long you are away, you always remember how to do it. It's beginning to look like the developer might be getting[...]

It really was a unique flash in the pan that grew up, reached critical mass and then died a quick and silent death, all in the space of 2 or 3 years. However, in a rather obscure bit of news, Harmonix have announced that they are releasing three new songs for Rock Band 3 on January[...]

By Joe Cammissa   [audio:http://joecam.net/SML/SML-e065.mp3] Monday night is here and it's time for The SML Podcast Episode 65: The John Drake Amplicast here on Bleeding Cool! This week on the show we are joined by the one and only John Drake of Harmonix Oh And Save/Continue Editor Kyle Gaddo. In a nice hour-long interview we talk to John Drake about[...]

By Joe Cammisa It was just over a year ago, back on February 18th, 2013, that Harmonix announced they would be ending their weekly DLC releases for their Rock Band titles It was an announcement that many saw coming, but nonetheless was still quite shocking to have confirmed April 2nd marked the final release with the[...]