Category Archives: Music

Square Enix has signed up for two tracks from heavy metal rockers DevilDriver for the game formerly known as True Crime: Hong Kong.

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Nintendo has announced a set of 3D music video premieres coming to the Nintendo Video Service.

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A legal battle may yet jeopardise Ubisoft’s recently announced September European release for Rocksmith.

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Tickets for the latest Distant Worlds concert in London has gone on sale this morning ahead of the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy this year. VIP tickets, which cost £135 but involved a VIP meeting with famed Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu and Distant Worlds conductor Arnie Roth, seem to be sold out, but standard tickets are still available. Get them from the Royal Albert Hall box office here. Prepare for the long wait, though.

Harmonix has outlined the next two Dance Central DLC drops.

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Sony has posted a tech demo of PixelJunk 4am featuring Q-Game’s Rowan Parker, showing off how the rhythm-action-music-game works, exactly.

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Harmonix has said it doesn’t have any plans to stop releasing weekly content for Rock Band.

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Namco Bandai has revealed some of the licensed tracks included in the upcoming Ridge Racer Unbounded.

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Q-Games has announced PixelJunk 4am will release this spring, and those attending GDC next week will be ale to try it out.

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Singles from Everclear, Good Charlotte, and Mastodon will hit Rock Band 3 next week on March 6 for PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

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The unwieldy Electronic Symphony subtitle of the recently-released Vita version of Lumines was very nearly something much snappier.

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Rock Band 3 players are sure to be scratching their heads at a couple of the offerings on slate in the Gold Star My Heart Pack next week, starting with one of the “most requested” songs for the series: Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

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The second Indie Games Music Bundle has gone live to buy, featuring five soundtracks for a $1 including Aquaria, Sword & Sorcery, To The Moon, Jamestown and Machinarium. Shell out an additional $10 and you’ll get additional soundtracks for games like 8-Bit Pimp, Mighty Switch Force, Tower of Heaven, Shatter, Cat Astro Phi, Passcode, Eternal Daughter and Songs For the Cure ’10, with more albums to be unlocked once certain milestones are hit.

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Harmonix has announced Bush tracks will be made available for Rock Band 3 on February 7 for PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. The tracks are from the band’s 1994 debut, Sixteen Stone, and the DLC consists of the following tracks: Everything Zen, Comedown, and Machinehead. The tracks will be made available for PS3 the following day in Europe, as part of the weekly PSN update. Each will run you the normal rate, and for an extra $0.99 you can upgrade the song Machinehead to Pro bass and guitar. A track pack will be made available for $5.49.

Square Enix has opened a website portal which devoted entirely to its Piano Collections series of game soundtracks. At present, the site contains piano renditions of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts music,. and soon, NieR. The Piano Opera: Final Fantasy I/II/III soundtrack site has also been updated with track lists, samples, and composer comments from Nobuo Uematsu and Hiroyuki Nakayama. The soundtrack will be released on February 29 for ¥2,800 ($36.74), and sheet music will be available starting in March for ¥1,800 ($23.62). Thanks, Andriasang.

Q Entertainment has unveiled the soundtrack to Vita launch title Lumines Electronic Symphony, with Air, Amon Tobin, The Chemical Brothers, Faithless and Goldfrapp in the mix.

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Paul McCartney is writing music for an unannounced video game, according to an interview with German music publication Zeit Online, stating it will be the first time “young people” hear his music in game – barring his work with the Beatles and Wings in the Rock Band franchise.

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Record label EMI has said the release of Grand Theft Auto V will give the company an “opportunity” to have it include some of its “hidden gems” in the game.

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Some leaked boxart for Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy shows that the game will contain paid download content, as well as support something called “Nintendo Network”. The dummy art, which first popped up on NeoGAF, shows that the game, as promised, will have DLC released for it but it looks like it will cost you according to the fine print. The game launches on 3DS in Japan on February 16, which would make it the first game to have paid DLC on the system. Likely, Nintendo will announce something pertaining to “Nintendo Network” sometime between now and then, still, we’ll send a mail. Thanks, Andriasang.

Harmonix has announced two tracks from The Edgar Winter Group’s album, They Only Come Out at Night, and two from Korn will be released for Rock Band 3 next week. The tracks are: Free Ride, Frankenstein, Freak on a Leash, and Falling Away from Me. The former tracks from Winter contain keyboard support, with the later containing Pro Guitar/Pro Bass as well. Each track will run you the usual price on PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 come January 17.