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...occasion was an unveiling of The Beatles: Rock Band, developed by Harmonix with MTV and Apple Corps, the Beatles' music company. As with other music video games in the Rock Band and Guitar Hero series, this one invites players to take the musical parts of their favorite groups, playing replica instruments and scoring more points as they reach higher levels of dexterity. But winning is not the goal, as our group, whose ages ranged from 28 to ... quite a bit older, discovered. The idea is to form a musical community with your friends in the basement and the bands...
...blessings of McCartney and Starr, the group's surviving members, and of Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison; all were on board to expand and exploit a form that didn't exist when the Beatles were shaking up the world. Harrison's son Dhani, 31, helped bring Apple and Harmonix together; Giles Martin, son of Beatles record producer George Martin, devised intros for the songs culled from the band's studio banter. Like the Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas Beatles show Love, on which both Martins worked, this Rock Band is a grand, meticulous production meant to keep the flame...
Well it’s about damn time. Last Thursday, MTV and Cambridge’s own Harmonix announced plans for a Beatles video game in the vein of the tremendously popular “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” games, and I couldn’t be more excited. Not only does this give me a chance to quit trying to five-star “Message in a Bottle” and “My Name is Jonas” on Expert, but the digital premiere of the greatest band...
...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...
Previous E3 expos have introduced video games controlled by your feet (Dance Dance Revolution) and your voice (Karaoke Revolution). Now get ready for AntiGrav, the game you play wearing fluorescent gloves. Via the EyeToy, a mini-camera that plugs into PlayStation 2, AntiGrav (due this fall from Harmonix) senses your glove movements and uses them to control a futuristic hoverboarder--ducking, doing tricks and grabbing bonus points. Previous EyeToy games used your camera image onscreen, which meant you had to stand in direct light. But since AntiGrav needs to see only those gloves, you can play in just the glow...