Rock Band 3 (International)

Hey King of Light, how long did it take for you to reach the Completionist Rank? Did you finish all of the RB3 Goals on each instrument to do so? Did you use any of the DLC goals to help out?

Hey gang,

Next week's DLC will be a 3 pack from Stone Sour. You may know them as a side project for several members of Slipknot, but they've also been nominated for three Grammys. Should be a nice addition for folks looking for metal as well as those looking for more tracks from the 2000's. Enjoy!

Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation®3 system (Jan. 18):

“Made of Scars”
“Say You’ll Haunt Me” X
“Through Glass”

(All tracks are original master recordings)
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system Jan. 19)

These tracks will be available for purchase as individual tracks and as “Stone Sour Pack 01” on Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii. Tracks marked with “X” will include Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

Price:

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points) per song
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per song
$0.99 USD (100 Wii Points/80 Microsoft Points), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade
$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points, 550 Wii Points) for Stone Sour Pack 01

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

Here's the tracks that came out on Rock Band Network on the Xbox 360 in the past week:

Scott Attrill – “2 Invade (Stadium Mix)”
All Hallow’s Evil – “The Cold Taste of Nickel Plated Steel”
Stan Bush – “Til All Are One”
Morgawr – “Lindisfarne”
HourCast – “Clockwork”
Man Parts – “Motorcide (2x Bass Pedal)”
Chaotrope – “Reaper”
Arkaea – “Years in the Darkness”
The Pursuits – “24-7″
Rainbowdragoneyes – “Creatures ov Deception (2x Bass Pedal)”
A Day to Remember – “It’s Complicated”
A Day to Remember – “All I Want”
Ivoryline – “The Healing”
Freen in Green – “Nocturnal Wasteland”
BulletProof Messenger – “Control”
The Riptides – “The Pale Rider”
The Material – “Stay Here Forever”
Bumblefoot – “Real”

Here's the songs coming to RBN on PlayStation 3 on January 18:

Iron & Wine – “Flightless Bird, American Mouth”
Children of Nova – “Arcaedion”
The Agonist – “Thank You, Pain.”
Sunny Day Real Estate – “Song About an Angel”
Evile – “Nosophoros”

And here's the RBN tracks coming to the Wii on January 18:

The Main Drag – “How We’d Look On Paper”
Wounded Soul – “Rx”
Band of Horses – “The Great Salt Lake”
Firewind – “Head Up High”
Cetan Clawson and the Soul Side – “White Heat”
OK Go – “White Knuckles”

Next Tuesday, 1/18/2010, will also be the last scheduled batch of Rock Band Network songs brought over to the Wii. With the smaller online install base, limited demand for releases so far and the significant amount of work it takes for our producers and audio team to convert and process these additional tracks we’re no longer able to continue submitting RBN content to the Wii. Regular Wii DLC, and RBN releases for the 360 and PS3 will continue uninterrupted.

Hey gang,

It's been a long time coming, but we're finally revisiting one of the first artists that we ever released DLC for, the one and only David Bowie! "Space Oddity" was one of my favorite tracks in RB3, and next week brings 5 more amazing songs, with Pro Guitar / Bass upgrades for "Ziggy Stardust" and "Modern Love".

Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation®3 system (Jan. 25):

“Blue Jean”
“Fame”
“Modern Love” X
“Young Americans”
“Ziggy Stardust” X

(All tracks are original master recordings)
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system Jan. 26)

These tracks will be available for purchase as individual tracks and as “David Bowie Pack 02” on Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii. Tracks marked with “X” will include Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

Price:
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points) per song
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per song
$0.99 USD (100 Wii Points/80 Microsoft Points), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade
$8.49, £4.39 UK, €6.59 EU (680 Microsoft Points, 850 Wii Points) for David Bowie Pack 02

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

Big, big week for Rock Band Network Content. Here's the songs that came out on Xbox 360 over the past week:

Daath – “N.A.T.G.O.D.”
Deception of a Ghost – “In Case You Forgot”
Dirge Within – “Forever the Martyr”
Hellfire Society – “Angel”
Kataklysm – “Numb & Intoxicated (2x Bass Pedal)”
Kataklysm – “At the Edge of the World”
Memphis May Fire – “Action/Adventure”
OK Go – “White Knuckles – The Big Robot Remix”
Sintonia Retro – “La Formula”
Sun Domingo – “Something Face”
Terra Terra Terra – “Transmission Lost”
Monte Casino – “All I Need”
Crush Luther – “We Are Kings”
Of Mice & Men – “Those in Glass Houses”
Attack Attack! – “Sexual Man Chocolate”
Judy Buendía y Los Impostores – “Rompecabezas”
Orange Avenue – “Just Refrain”
Victory in Numbers – “The King is Dead”
Freen in Green – “Nocturnal Wasteland (2x Bass Pedal)”
Octavio Suñé – “Caíamos”
Children of Nova – “The Fall of Aphonia”
Children of Nova – “We Collide”
Children of Nova – “Second Sight Blackout”
Affiance – “Call to the Warrior”
The Riptides – “Call Me”
Ween – “It’s Gonna Be A Long Night”
Blackberry River Band – “Brand New Toy”
Nachtmystium – “Nightfall”
DoubleShot – “Livin’ Right”
Silent Descent – “Beyond Grey (2x Bass Pedal)”
Mayday Parade – “Jamie All Over”
Amberian Dawn – “Sunrise”
Amberian Dawn – “Lullaby”
Amberian Dawn – “Morning Star”
Grieve for Tomorrow – “Beauty is Deceiving”
We Are The Illusion – “The Podium”
Graveyard BBQ – “Creamskull Boogie”
First Blood – “Enemy”
August Burns Red – “Marianas Trench”
August Burns Red – “Marianas Trench (2x Bass Pedal)”
Evile – “Hundred Wrathful Deities”
Turrigenous – “A Slight Amplification”
Fracture – “Dominate and Overload”
Haste The Day – “Dog Like Vultures”
Chelsea Grin – “Cheyne Stokes”
Impaled – “The Last Gasp”
After the Burial – “Cursing Akhenaten”
Ride Your Bike – “Coat Rack”
Horporate – “Shorty On The Floor”
Mystakin – “Autumns of Optimism”
Chiodos – “Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot With a Monkey Face)”
Vampires Everywhere! – “Undead Heart”
Decrepit Birth – “The Resonance”

And here's the RBN songs coming to PlayStation 3 on January 25:

My Morning Jacket – “I’m Amazed”
Converge – “Dark Horse”
After the Burial – “Berzerker”
All That Remains – “For We Are Many”
The Shins – “Phantom Limb”

Hey gang,

Announcing a little bit early today, as Past Magazine already let the cat out of the bag yesterday... all of The Clash's London Calling is coming to RB3 next week! A punk masterpiece in its entirety, with some choice Pro Guitar upgrades as well. This is probably HMXpope's favorite week of DLC ever, so track him down on the forums and share in his excitement. Enjoy!

Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation®3 system (Feb. 1):

• “London Calling” X
• “Brand New Cadillac”
• “Jimmy Jazz”
• “Hateful”
• “Rudie Can’t Fail” X
• “Spanish Bombs” X
• “The Right Profile”
• “Lost in the Supermarket”
• “Clampdown” X
• “The Guns of Brixton”
• “Wrong ‘Em Boyo”
• “Death or Glory”
• “Koka Kola”
• “The Card Cheat” X
• “Lover’s Rock”
• “Four Horsemen”
• “I’m Not Down”
• “Revolution Rock”

(All tracks are original master recordings)
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system Feb. 2)

These tracks will be available for purchase as individual tracks and as “London Calling (Album)” on Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii. Tracks marked with “X” will include Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

Price:
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points) per song
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per song
$0.99 USD (100 Wii Points/80 Microsoft Points), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade
$19.99, £9.99 UK, €14.99 EU (1600 Microsoft Points, 2000 Wii Points) for London Calling (Album)

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

Here's the tracks that hit Rock Band Network on Xbox 360 in the past week:

Raven Quinn – “Decadence”
Fiction Reform – “Whites In Their Eyes”
Arkaea – “Years in the Darkness (2x Bass Pedal)”
Six-Stringed Flamberge – “Abrogator”
The Waking Hours – “New Revolution”
Mafia Track Suit – “Samiam”
Fake Problems – “5678″
Chaotrope – “XIV (2x Bass Pedal)”
Mystic Syntax – “Blasphemous”
Molehill – “On the Wall”
C&O – “Step on the Throat”
KickBend – “Goin’ Home”
Daryle Stephen Ackerman – “One-Night-Stand Man”
Jeff Orr – “Hanging By a Thread”
Amberian Dawn – “Sons of Seven Stars”
Glitzy Glow – “Black and Sunny Day”
Poets of the Fall – “Lift”
Firewind – “The Fire and the Fury (2x Bass Pedal)”
The Pinstripes – “Come On In”
Deadlock – “The Brave / Agony Applause (2x Bass Pedal)”
Evile – “Metamorphosis”
Evile – “My Parasite”
Children of Nova – “The Order”
of Montreal – “An Eluardian Instance”
Architects – “Learn to Live”
Sleeping with Sirens – “If I’m James Dean, You’re Audrey Hepburn”
MyChildren MyBride – “Lost Boys”
Slightly Stoopid – “Closer to the Sun”
Dark From Day One – “New Addiction”
Bright Midnight – “Hotel Saigon”
Bright Midnight – “Killers of the Worst Type”
Bright Midnight – "Hand Me Down"
Nova – “California”
Cephalic Carnage – “Abraxas of Filth”
Periphery – “Icarus Lives”

And here's the songs coming to RBN on PlayStation 3 on February 1st:

Damone – “Roll the Dice”
Sleater-Kinney – “Jumpers”
Gov’t Mule – “Steppin’ Lightly”
Ween – “Gabrielle”
Amberian Dawn – “Fate of the Maiden”

Hello Friends,

As HMXHenry alluded to in his post from December 2 (http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=210000), we’ve been working on a new title update for Rock Band 3, and I’m very happy to announce that it is currently live on Xbox 360, and should be hitting on PS3 in US and Europe within 24 hours. We'll update when we know for sure the PS3 update is live. (Before you ask: Unfortunately, we’re not able to update titles on the Wii system, so this does not apply to Rock Band 3 for the Wii.)

In addition to numerous bug fixes and tweaks, possibly the most exciting component of this new title update is the arrival of RBN2.0. For those not in the know, this will add Harmonies, Keys, and Pro Keys authoring support for RBN songs. For more info on that, head over to http://creators.rockband.com!

Before I get into highlights of this update, we want to give the hugest of shoutouts to you, our community. Without your ongoing, detailed and constructive feedback, we would not have been able to pinpoint and address as many issues as we have here. It can be frustrating when you run into an issue with a game, but those of you who chose to proactively post your findings here on rockband.com instead of resigning yourself to “Well, that’s just the way it is,” are true heroes.

Enough chatting, on with the vital details!


GAMEPLAY CHANGES

* The audio distortion (also referred to as a buzz, hiss, or squawk) that some PS3 Keyboard players experienced has been addressed.
* For users experiencing trouble deploying Vocal Overdrive in certain audio setups, OD can now be deployed using the Back button on the controller. NOTE: this only works while in a valid Overdrive deploy section.
* Overdrive can now be deployed using a Pedal with both the Mustang Pro Guitar and the Keyboard peripherals.
* Scoring is disabled after a song has been paused multiple times (this prevent players from artificially inflating scores using the pause function).
* The translucency of the track surface has been adjusted to make note gems are easier to see against the venue backgrounds.
* Based on fan feedback, limited functionality for the Stage kit has been added to Rock Band 3. Please note that this 3rd-party peripheral is no longer officially supported, so we cannot guarantee full functionality with every file format (RB3, Pro-DLC), but basic functions should be reenabled.


ONLINE CHANGES

* PS3 Voice Chat not properly working with headsets has been remedied.
* Audio no longer distorts for remote players when whammying sustains in an online session.
* To prevent blank tracks from appearing in online multiplayer, all members in an online multiplayer band must own the Pro upgrades to play a song with DLC pro upgrades.


MUSIC LIBRARY AND STORE CHANGES

* Pro Guitar songs now sort themselves into the correct difficulty tiers.
* Pro upgrade availability will now be more accurately reflected in the Music Store.
* The following songs are now correctly appearing in the Music Library:

o Anvil - 666
o Anvil - Metal on Metal
o Anvil - This is Thirteen
o Dinosaur Jr - Pick Me Up
o Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon
o Guess Who, The - Hand Me Down World
o Guess Who, The - No Time
o Tenacious D - Rock Your Socks
o Avenged Sevenfold – Afterlife


PRACTICE MODE CHANGES

* An issue that prevented holding sustain notes on keys in the trainers has been addressed
* Breakneck Speed now works in Practice Mode.


CRASH FIXES

* Fixed a Character Creator crash related to a particular eyebrow asset or the generation of a random character.
* Fixed assorted minor crashes, as well as minor scoring and text bugs.

Hey gang,

Just in time to celebrate his birthday on the 6th, next week's DLC is an 8 pack of Bob Marley tracks! This pack joins the full album download for Legend by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Enjoy!

Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation®3 system (Feb. 8):

“Bend Down Low”
“Burnin’ and Lootin’”
“Coming in from the Cold”
“Kaya”
“Lively Up Yourself”
“No More Trouble”
“Small Axe”
“Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)” X

(All tracks are original master recordings)
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system Feb. 9)

These tracks will be available for purchase as individual tracks and as “Bob Marley Pack 01” on Xbox 360,
PlayStation®3 system and Wii. Tracks marked with “X” will include Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points) per song
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per song
$0.99 USD (100 Wii Points/80 Microsoft Points), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligiblePro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade
$13.49, £6.69 UK, €9.99 EU (1080 Microsoft Points, 1350 Wii Points) for Bob Marley
Pack 01

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

Here's the tracks that hit Rock Band Network on Xbox 360 in the past week:

• Kid Liberty – “Coolguy Deluxe!”
• No Bragging Rights – “Ode to Logan”
• The Night Life – “Holiday”
• Amberian Dawn – “My Wings Are My Eyes”
• After the Burial – “Aspiration”
• Devin Townsend – “ZTO”
• Devin Townsend – “ZTO (2x Bass Pedal)”
• Emery – “Butcher’s Mouth”
• Lnk. Ken Kardashian – “The December Experience”
• BulletProof Messenger – “Arm Yourself”
• Chaotrope – “Pandemonium”
• Chaotrope – “Betrayed”
• New West – “Bend”
• These Three Poisons – “Light Up The Eyes”
• Akira the Don – “Steven Wells (He Was the Greatest)”
• Zakk Tremblay – “Plátanos Con Sangre”
• The Moth Complex – “You Don’t Know”
• Lettuce – “Last Suppit”
• Cauldron – “All or Nothing”
• Admiral of Black – “Bitten by the Rattlesnake”
• Sideburn – “Live To Rock”
• Big Light – “Triceratops”
• Common Anomaly – “Hate To Say”
• With Life in Mind – “King of Frauds”
• Felsen – “Radios Tweaking”
• Felsen – “Two Utensils in One”
• Arena – “Volver a Nacer”
• Rockapella – “Bang”
• Kataklysm – “At the Edge of the World (2x Bass Pedal)”
• Lucid Grey – “Barricades”
• Robby Suavé – “Around the World”
• Kylie D. Hart – “Firehouse Bar”
• Sam Morrison Band – “I Gotta Ride 2010″
• Rotary Downs – “Bullet on a String”
• Rotary Downs – “Promised Land”
• Studebakerbrown – “Couch Sitting Rattlesnake”
• MC Frontalot – “Hassle: The Dorkening”
• MC Frontalot – “Bizarro Genius Baby”
• Alternative Deficit Disorder – “Pylo the Pylon”
• Soulive – “Too Much”
• Cloudscape – “Mind Diary”
• Bluefusion – “Fighting Spirit”
• Kutless – “Strong Tower”
• Abraham Nixon – “Secondary Gain”
• Jacob Chaney – “Cluster #2 (RB2 Version)
• Jonathan Coulton – “Big Bad World One”
• Bright Midnight – “For the Strange”

And here's the songs coming to RBN on PlayStation 3 on February 8:

• Amberian Dawn – “Kokko - Eagle of Fire”
• Terrorhorse - “Modern Mathematics”
• Marillion – “Whatever Is Wrong With You”
• Longwave – “No Direction”
• Evanescence – “Going Under”