The Rock Band Network Beta Program Opens for Music Artists, Publishers and Record Labels to Author and Submit Songs
Rock Band Enthusiasts Encouraged to Join XNA Creators Club Online at the Now-Open Creators.RockBand.com to Test New Music Tracks and Participate in Peer Review Program
CAMBRIDGE, MA and NEW YORK, NY – Jan. 20, 2010 – Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced that the Rock Band Network beta program is now open to the public,giving emerging and established artists the tools needed to start authoring and submitting their music into Rock Band. The Rock Band Network, announced in July,is aground-breaking initiative that gives musicians, publishers and record labels the ability to author their original recordings into gameplay files to promote and sell their music as playable Rock Band tracks through the soon-to-launch Rock Band Network Music Store (RBN Store).
“We are excited to democratize the Rock Band platform and expand the music discovery experience to the greater music community with the Rock Band Network,” said Alex Rigopulos, CEO and co-founder of Harmonix. “We believe this will be great for fans, music lovers, bands and the music industry as a whole.”
“The Rock Band Network opens the Rock Band universe to musicians at any stage of their career, empowering them to release the songs they choose, on their timetable, via our proven music distribution platform,” said Paul DeGooyer, Senior Vice President of Electronic Games and Music for MTV Networks Music Group. “It is a high-value business proposition that features powerful promotional impact for artists and songwriters, while at the same time adding real sales to their bottom lines.”
Artists who submit songs for the Rock Band Network Music Store will be able to choose from multiple pricing tiers for individual tracks and receive a royalty of 30 percent of the retail selling price (excluding tax) for every track purchased through the RBN Store. Before they are approved to be sold, songs are submitted to http://Creators.RockBand.com. The author submits the song to one of two areas: Playtest, where the community delivers feedback on a work in progress track, or Peer Review, where a revised song goes when it is considered a final draft and ready to be posted for sale. Once in Peer Review, songs are tested for playability and checked to check for violations of XNA Creators Club Online community standards (vulgarity, adult content, legal concerns, etc.). Peer Reviewers have the unique opportunity to play Rock Band NetworkRock Band 2 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, can join the Playtest and Peer Review processes by purchasing an XNA Creators Club Online Premium membership through http://creators.xna.com/membership. content for free, well in advance of a track’s commercial release. These fans can help shape the track’s final form, rating how fun and challenging the authoring is, and helping flag issues to make the song the best it can be. Anyone who owns
Once tracks are approved, they will be transferred to the Rock Band Network Store, an in-game music marketplace where the millions of Rock Band fans will be able to both hear and play samples of songs before they purchase. Songs will debut exclusively on Xbox 360 for 30 days. A selection of standout tracks will then be made available on the PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and the Wii™ home videogame console from Nintendo.
How to get started:
· Wondering How to Submit a Song? http://creators.rockband.com/docs/Website Scroll down to “Adding a song to the pipeline.”
· Want to Become a Peer Reviewer? http://creators.rockband.com/docs/Playtest_Process
The Rock Band Network Store will open to consumers in the near future to be announced at a later date. With more than 1,000 tracks available to date in the standard Rock Band platform, the Rock Band Network Music Store will exponentially increase the number of available songs, further securing MTV Games and Harmonix’s position as the leading provider of downloadable content for music-based video games.
To check out the Rock Band Network in action, featuring Jonathan Coulton, please visit here: http://www.rockband.com/zine/rbn-panels-3-comm/.
Play Dragonica™ Online for a Chance to Win More Than $2,500 in Gift Card Prizes
Agoura Hills, CA – January 18, 2010 – THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) and THQ*ICE LLC, the recently launched joint venture between THQ and ICE Entertainment focusing on free-to-play online games, today announced the start of the Dragonica™ Online Water Series Game Card Sweepstakes giving players a chance to win a $2,500 Best Buy gift card and limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Cards loaded with ICE Cash.
To enter simply register for a free THQ*ICE Passport account, download the official game client and log into Dragonica Online. Existing players will be automatically entered when they log in to the game during the month of January.
Sweepstakes Prizes Include:
· Grand Prize (1 awarded): $2,500 Best Buy gift card
· First Prize (5 awarded): $25 limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card
· Second Prize (10 awarded): $10 limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card
The Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card Sweepstakes runs through January 31, 2010. THQ*ICE will randomly select 16 lucky winners including one grand prize winner, five first prize winners and ten second prize winners. For the official list of rules, please visit: http://passport.thqice.com/ui_web/official_rules.html. Read more »
Mochi Media is Joining the Shanda Games Family
Mochi Media is proud to announce that we will be joining the Shanda Games family! If you’re not familiar with Shanda Games, they are the leading onlineMochi Media Joins Shanda Games,developer, operator and publisher in the Chinese market. This partnership is a phenomenal step forward for us and we’re very excited to join forces with them as we continue building out Mochi products with additional resources and support from Shanda Games. Thank you to everyone in the community for your support in getting us to this momentous point!
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The World Series of Beer Pong V Wraps Up a Succesful Weekend in Vegas
Another Successful Start to the New Year in Las Vegas for The World Series of Beer Pong V™
The WSOBP V™ Comes to a Close with Two-Time World Champs Smashing Time Taking 1st Place!
Las Vegas, Nevada—January 8, 2010—This past weekend, beer pong players from around the world flocked to The Flamingo Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada for the largest beer pong competition in the world. BPONG.COM™, founders and creators of The World Series of Beer Pong V™, welcomed over 450 beer pong competitors from The United States, Canada, England, Ireland and Japan to The World Series of Beer Pong V and crowned one team the World Champions!
“The World Series of Beer Pong V was an epic success, and we have huge plans for The WSOBP VI,” said Billy Gaines, founding partner of BPONG and The World Series of Beer Pong V. “The players are what makes this event happen and we have the best teams in the world out here. It’s great to watch the friendships form and grow over the years, and the competition and sportsmanship is unbelievable. We all can’t wait to see what 2010 holds for us!”
Notable media in attendance this year included The Jay Leno Show, which entered a team to play (Team Broverload, made up of popular field correspondents Ross the Intern and Owen Benjamin). The segment will air on NBC this Friday, January 8, 2010. Maxim Magazine and G4’s Attack of The Show also attended, along with College humor, which entered a team, Team Shocker.
The final round was announced by veteran voice of the MMA Bruce Buffer, setting the stage for the final round of beer pong where team Smashing Time from Long Island, New York made WSOBP history by becoming the first team to win back-to-back World Series titles!With repeating as World Champions of Beer Pong, Smashing Time walked away with the $50,000 grand prize. In second place, team Since Sliced Bread from Michigan played to the end, losing to Smashing Time 1-2 in the best-of-three finals and went home with the $5,000 second place prize.
The World Series of Beer Pong thanks its sponsors, including Spencer’s Gifts, Sapphire Las Vegas, Flamingo Las Vegas and Tucker Max and his new DVD, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell.
For more information about BPONG or The World Series of Beer Pong, please visit: www.bpong.com!
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**ROCK BAND MEDIA ALERT**
PAUL McCARTNEY BRINGS LIVE TRACKS TO ROCK BAND!
Cambridge, Mass. – Dec. 28, 2009 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a three pack of songs from Paul McCartney’s latest live album will soon be added to the Rock Band Music Store and LEGO® Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Paul McCartney joins the more than 390 bands currently available through the Rock Band platform. With more than 1,000 songs available, Rock Band is, without question, the industry leader in providing the best selection of interactive musical content, songs and artists.
Paul McCartney’s historic three-night musical christening of New York’s Citi Field, witnessed by 120,000-plus attendees and universally hailed as a concert experience for the ages, was immortalized Nov. 17, when Hear Music/Concord Music Group released Good Evening New York City. This momentous musical experience is available in two formats: a three-disc (two CDs and one DVD) standard edition and a four-disc (two CDs and two DVDs) deluxe version, featuring expanded packaging and a bonus DVD including McCartney’s traffic-stopping, headline-making July 15 performance on the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee.
And beginning Jan. 5, Rock Band and McCartney fans will be able to download “New York City Pack 01” in the Rock Band Music Store. McCartney’s solo debut on the Rock Band platform includes “Band on the Run (live),” “Jet (live)” and “Sing the Changes (live).” These tracks will be available Jan. 5 for the Xbox 360 and Wii and Jan. 7 for PlayStation3.
Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “New York City Pack 01”
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track
http://www.rockband.com/music
Acute frustration over her 14 year old son’s addiction to video games and repeated playing until late night, led a Boston mother
to call police emergency for help in trying to communicate with him.
49 year old Angela Mejia shared that she has been very concerned about the huge amount of time that her son invests into playing Grand Theft Auto series, a very popular but much graphic and violent game. The mother’s frustration hit the roof when she discovered that her son was playing the game at 2.30 am on a Saturday, hours after she had instructed him to go to bed. continue read here
