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An arbitrator has ordered former Harmonix parent company Viacom to hand over a portion of allegedly outstanding bonus payments.

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Dance Central fans will be getting some new content today as Harmonix is rolling out a new pack of Rihanna songs for Dance Central 2. The pack will be available on December 20 (today) for 640 MSP.

What’s My Name, S&M, and Only Girl in the World will join Rude Boy already on Dance Central 2 and will be available individually for 240 MSP each.

Via Joystiq.

Harmonix has announced that a three-pack of Canadian prog-rockers RUSH will be made available on PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 December 13. Track include: Fly by Night, Caravan, and The Spirit of Radio (Live). Also to be made available are the singles Rebel Love Song from Black Veil Brides and A Warrior’s Call from Volbeat. Each track will run you $1.99, with an additional $0.99 for Pro tracks. More information is available on the Rock Band Blog.

Harmonix has announced that Queen is returning to Rock Band with nine new songs for Rock Band 3.

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In a video celebrating the fourth birthday of the Rock band franchise, Harmonix staffers admitted to qualms about going head-to-head with a franchise they’d created.

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Microsoft’s announced that today’s Dance Central 2 DLC will be on all things Gaga: Marry The Night and Edge of Glory will both be available for 240 MS Points on Xbox Live Marketplace later this afternoon. These will be the third and fourth Gaga tracks added to the Harmonix dancer, which comes with Born This Way and Bad Romance on the disc.

MS has also said that Rhianna DLC will be inbound next month. Thanks, Joystiq.

Goodies galore in shorts today, starting with an instance finder coming to Lord of the Rings Online, King of Fighters XIII DLC, Amazon sales, an indie game coming to Steam, and some interesting news out of Japan. Go ahead and hit the break.

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Little did you know, that all those times you looked at the clock and it was 11:11, the cosmos was preparing itself for the Dragonborn. Because the day of reckoning is now upon us, little else is happening. Regardless, there’s still enough to warrant a shorts post.

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It’s Friday. Good for you, getting ready for the weekend and all that. Have some shorts before you head off.

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Bloomberg’s carrying a profile of Harmonx on its website, confirming it’s working on titles outside of the Dance Central or Rock Band. The tidbit came from Florian Hunziker, the COO of the company in a piece for BB. This year has been the strongest yet for the Boston developer in terms of revenue, bringing in $100 million for the year following the release of Rock Band 3 and Dance Central last year, the latter selling 2.5 million since its release as a launch title for Kinect.

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It’s Halloween weekend, and some spooky and not so spooky shorts are posted below.

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Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos has said the company is in the process of considering “a pretty dramatic departure,” for future iterations of its Rock Band label.

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In honour of Kinect’s first birthday and the release of Dance Central 2, Harmonix and Microsoft are throwing a massive DLC sale. The entire catalogue of Dance Central DLC has been discounted, with savings ranging from 25% off to bundle packs at less than half the price of regular track purchases.

The sale runs till November 5, so get your skates on.

Thanks, Joystiq.

ConnectedLondon has a Dance Central 2 promo video shot at the weekend, showing the Harmonix game in action in public alongside model Kelly Brook. There was also a DJ set from Little Boots at the London event. Watch it below.

Despite the push, the game only landed 40th in this morning’s UK charts.

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No. Just putting that out there. The Harmonix taster comes in at 1.31Gb, and is Gold exclusive right. Queue it up here. The full thing’s out on Friday for Xbox 360.

Harmonix has announced details of the Coldplay pack that’s coming to Rock Band this week. Going for $1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points per song or $9.99/800 MS Points/1000 Wii Points, included in the pack is Yellow from Parachutes, The Scientist and Clocks from A Rush of Blood to the Head, Fix You from X&Y, the title track from its last album Viva La Vida and Every Teardrop is a Waterfall from new album Mylo Xylo. Yellow and Clocks are upgradeable to Pro Guitar/Bass for an extra 99 cents.

Thanks, D’Toid.

“Gimmick” is just a word for tools of immersion which haven’t caught on yet, according to Harmonix senior designer Brian Chan.

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The shorts post is rather long today, so we’re going to go ahead and race to the finish with it.

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Harmonix has announced that Coldplay will make its bow on Rock Band as DLC in the coming months. Stevie Wonder will also make his debut with the game as DLC, with Breaking Benjamin and Dream Theater making returns. All of the DLC for the aforementioned bands currently remain dateless, with no songs unconfirmed neither.

More details here.

Harmonix has released the latest trailer of Dance Central 2, coming at near five minutes. The clip shows the four groups within the game whilst choreographers and Harmonix dev staff go into detail about the Kinect dancing game. Get the video below the break, via GiantBomb.

Dance Central 2 launches later this month in Europe for Xbox 360.

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