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...Rock Band is a video game that comes in a box the size of a large cat carrier or a small steamer trunk. This is because along with the usual game disc, Rock Band comes with a collection of plastic musical instruments: a guitar, a drum kit and a bass (which looks exactly like the guitar), plus a microphone for vocals. Using these "instruments," you pretend to play along to songs by Nirvana, the Rolling Stones, Metallica, Radiohead, R.E.M. and so on. You're not actually playing--the instruments don't make any noise. The fun is real, but everything...
...Rock Band is the latest, hottest and most ambitious entry in the genre of music-based video games, and retailers can't keep it on the shelves, even at $170 a pop. "We can't make 'em fast enough at this point," says Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix, which developed Rock Band as well as two Guitar Hero games. It would be easy to dismiss Rock Band as a fad or just a game, but there's something more to it. Besides being insanely fun, music-based games like Rock Band may actually be important. Consider these five reasons while...
...Rock Band is social...
...Corps Intelligence Activity, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Security Agency, and the Office of Naval Intelligence. Some critics have suggested that the military simply found a public way to quiet the drumbeat for war coming from Vice President Dick Cheney and his shrinking band of allies in the Administration...
...scoring streak, and J.T. Wyman, who is 12th in the nation in points per game, challenged Richter with a shot and followed with a quick rebound attempt. The play ended with Richter flat on his back on the ice and the game still scoreless. The Harvard faithful and its band spilled in after the Harvard-Michigan basketball game’s end in good spirits. Raucous Dartmouth fans answered by steadily heckling Richter. “You don’t really realize it as a young player, but now after—this is my fourth year here?...