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Harmonix has revealed all 25 tracks for Rock band Blitz ahead of the arcade-action downloadable’s release later this month.

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Rock Band 3 will be the recipient of three new tracks next week from Foreigner and Nightwish.

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Harmonix has announced an eclectic mix of tracks will be available for Rock Band 3 next week. The tracks are rom Whitesnake’s Still of the Night, Cutting Crew’s (I Just) Dies in Your Arms, and Hoobastank’s Crawling in the Dark. The tracks can be yours com August 7, and all contain keyboard support, and the Cutting Crew single contains Pro Guitar and Bass options. The tracks will land in Europe for PSN August 8. Maybe I can finally get my Mom to play RB3 with me if I pick up the Whitesnake track. She had the hots for David Coverdale when I was a kid. Might still. I’ll have to ask.

EA has announced it will remove both Rock Band and Rock Band Reloaded from the App Store next week on July 31. Users can re-install purchases if synched to iCloud, and users will still be able to play the titles locally. The games are being pulled due to the licensing agreement with Harmonix ending. Thanks, EG.

Harmonix has announced tracks from Foster the People will arrive for Rock band 3 next week. Alongside the tracks Helena Beat, and Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls), Under Cover of Darkness, from The Strokes’ fourth studio album, Angles, will also be available. An optional Pro Guitar and Pro Bass upgrade will be available for the track. Pricing will run the usual on PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360.

Harmonix has announced Rock Band Blitz will release on PSN August 28 for $14.99 and On XBL August 29 for 1200 Microsoft Points.

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Harmonix has announced singles from The All-American Rejects, Mudvayne, and Rise Against will be released for Rock Band 3 next week. The tracks will run you the usual, plus an additional amount for tracks with Pro Guitar and Bass upgrades on PS3, 360, and Wii. Here’s what will be available: The All-American Rejects – “Gonzo”; Mudvayne – “Happy?”; Rise Against – “Satellite”. The tracks will be available on July 3, unless you are a PS3 user in Europe, in which case you can download them on July 4.

Harmonix has announced tracks from five-time Grammy winner Carrie Underwood will land on the Rock Band store next week for Rock Band 3. Called the Carrie Underwood Pack 01, tracks include Before He Cheats, Cowboy Casanova, and Good Girl. The first two offerings contain keyboard support, while the later has the option of added Pro Guitar and Bass upgrades. The tracks will run you the usual, and will be available for PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii June 26.

Harmonix said during its podcast this week that it’s working on “three and/or more” original IPs. Some are music games,some are not “full-on rhythm-action games,” according to brand management boss and comm director John Drake. “Some of them are brand new things that we created from our guts and brains here at Harmonix. Some of them are sort of like things we’re explaining the universe of. It’s not Amplitube or Frequency. I’m not talking about Rock Band 4. I’m not talking about the next Dance Central game. I’m talking about new, crazy stuff.”
The has over 20 job listings posted on its site, and Drake said the “overwhelming majority,” are for “unannounced AAA projects that are new IP.” Thanks, Polygon.

Harmonix’s announced that it’ll be adding a new dance track for every remaining week of June to the Dance Central Music Store. The first track will be Iyaz’s “Replay”, which was added today, followed by Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” on June 19 and Kat DeLuna’s “Whine Up” on June 26. Each track will cost 240 MSP for you to download. Dance Central 3 was recently announced to be in development for Kinect for Xbox 360 and will be releasing in northern autumn 2012.

Dance Central 3 was announced during MS’s press event at E3, and Usher is involved in the choreography for it. Usher even took the stage at the MS presser to dance, sing and make the girls squeal. Read the full Microsoft conference report here.

Harmonix has announced tracks from Cracker, Florence + the Machine, and Midnight Oil will be released for Rock Band 3 next week, June 5. Tracks from the aforementioned artists are: Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now), Dog Days are Over, and Power and the Passion, respectively. Each track will run you the usual on PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Pro Guitar and keyboard information can be found through the Rock Band Blog.

In a new trailer for Rock Band Blitz, project lead Matthew Nordhaus describes the downloadable title as “faster-paced” than Rock Band, and having “more to keep track of”. This is an understatement.

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The majority of the 25 song set list for upcoming downloadable Rock Band Blitz has been detailed, with Blink 182, Iron Maiden and P!nk among those revealed so far.

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Rock Band 3 players will be the recipients of some rather awesome DLC next week when Iron Maiden tracks invade PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Called the Maiden Epics pack, tunes included in the DLC are: Phantom of the Opera, The Prisoner, The Flight of Icarus, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Infinite Dreams , and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Not a bad one in the bunch there, and I’m personally, really looking forward to channeling Bruce Dickinson in a venue other than drunken karaoke at a pub. The tracks land starting May 22, and you can get pricing and Pro information through the Rock Band Blog.

Despite appearing on a recent CV, Rock Band: Led Zeppelin isn’t a game currently in the works, Harmonix has told VG247.

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Harmonix seems to be working on a motion-control music game for next generation consoles, with combat, explorable environments, and a strong narrative element.

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Users who own the Rock Band iOS app have received notice that the game will “no longer be playable” after May 31 via pop up message when loading it up. While EA has yet to officially respond to the matter, and its seems a bit odd that someone would no longer be granted access a purchased game and the purchased DLC, The Guardian notes EA shuttering of the game is “not an isolated example.”

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Thanks to the determined efforts of Facebook fans, Harmonix has unlocked a new dance crew for Dance Central 2. If your Xbox 360 is connected to Live, you should find the new additions waiting for you next time you fire it up. They’re ninjas. This seems pretty ideal.

Thanks, Destructoid.

Time to get out the spandex and tease your hair to high heaven: Cinderella will make their Rock Band debut next week on April 24. The following tracks can also be purchased in a pack for $5.49: Nobody’s Fool, Shelter Me, and Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone). All contain keyboard support, while the later offering also supports Pro Guitar and Pro Bass. Individual songs will run you $1.99 each with an extra $0.99 for the Pro upgrade on PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360.