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Digital FoundryGreen Day: Rock Band Xbox 360/PS3 Face-Off
Another faultless cross-platform effort.
Digital FoundryXbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3: Round 26
Split/Second, Lost Planet 2, Green Day: Rock Band, Prince of Persia and Backbreaker.
Punk chore?
VideoLondon Showcase - Green Day: Rock Band
Bigger than the Beatles.
Key events
9th June 2010
9th June 2010
8th June 2010
12th March 2010
14th December 2009
275 weeks and 4000 songs later, Rock Band DLC will end
The world has moved on.
It all started in 2005 when Harmonix and RedOctane released Guitar Hero, and the world went nuts for the game with the plastic guitar. Harmonix rode that music game tidal wave into EA's arms and the pair dreamt up Rock Band.
Digital FoundryGreen Day: Rock Band Xbox 360/PS3 Face-Off
Another faultless cross-platform effort.
Digital FoundryXbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3: Round 26
Split/Second, Lost Planet 2, Green Day: Rock Band, Prince of Persia and Backbreaker.
Another month, another multi-game Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 Face-Off. Let's get the party started with all the stats, videos, comparison galleries and performance analyses you crave, derived from an eye-watering array of big names and quality wares.
Thankfully the mania of the release schedule diminishes as we enter summer, perhaps allowing us to do some catch-up coverage on other titles, but the immediate future is E3: Project Natal, Move, Nintendo 3DS, OnLive, Gaikai, and masses of AAA titles for us to preview. Woo! In the meantime, let's get this show on the road.
Split/Second: Velocity
Punk chore?
The timing is a little unfortunate, perhaps. Green Day make their raucous stage debut as a videogame headliner this Friday, mere days before Rock Band 3 is expected to steal the limelight at E3 with whatever new toys Harmonix has stuffed up its lager-stained denim sleeve.
As the second band-specific instalment of the music game series, over 50 million record sales suggests there'll be enough punk-drunk fanboys and girls to ensure Green Day plays to another packed house. But will it be the gig of a lifetime?
Rather than offer a narrative of the band's development, the game focuses instead on their three most significant releases: 1994's Dookie, 2004's American Idiot and 2009's 21st Century Breakdown. The first two appear in their entirety, the latter is six short - those being DLC already released which can either be purchased or imported if you've already got 'em. Otherwise, albums in-between (Insomniac, Nimrod, Warning) have a mere seven tracks in total to themselves.
VideoLondon Showcase - Green Day: Rock Band
Bigger than the Beatles.
Bigger than the Beatles.
MTV: Green Day should outsell Beatles
"Higher awareness" among demographic.
MTV Games boss Scott Guthrie has indicated that he expects Green Day: Rock Band to sell more than The Beatles: Rock Band.
No new DLC for Green Day: Rock Band
Plus: full tracklist revealed within.
Harmonix has revealed that no additional downloadable songs will be offered for Green Day: Rock Band.
So close to drowning but I don't mind.
MTV and Harmonix have announced that Green Day: Rock Band will be released for PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 worldwide on 8th June.
Harmonix is working on Green Day: RB
In "partnership" with others.
Rock Band creator Harmonix will help to create the new Green Day: Rock Band spin-off.
Harmonix not making Green Day: RB
DLC team Demiurge will.
Rock Band creator Harmonix will not be making the Green Day spin-off that was announced in December 2009.
Green Day: Rock Band announced
More popular than The Beatles?
Punk poppers Green Day are set to follow in the footsteps of The Beatles with a new Rock Band spin-off.
The game was announced during the Spike Video Game Awards at the weekend. The three members of Green Day made the reveal in a video and a subsequent press released confirmed the game for PS3, Wii and Xbox 360. Unlike The Beatles: Rock Band, Green Day: Rock Band's tracklist will be fully exportable to Rock Band and Rock Band 2.
Green Day formed at the end of the eighties and caught the public's eye with album Dookie, released in 1994. "Basket Case" was the best known of the songs. The band plateaued at the turn of the century but rocketed back with American Idiot in 2004.
