NEW YORK, Aug. 21 -- Harmonix and MTV Games announced
today the addition of the fourth complete album to the Rock Band(TM) Music
Store catalogue of downloadable content. Available August 26, Rush's biggest
selling album, Moving Pictures, will be added to the Rock Band DLC catalog
giving rock fans the opportunity to build a complete setlist to take on
their virtual world turn.
Moving Pictures joins the five other Rush tracks in the catalog
including the late release of the Rush Masters Vault selections which
includes exclusive Rock Band versions of "Closer To The Heart" and "Working
Man (Vault Edition)" and spread over versions of "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight" and
"Working Man." Moving Pictures, Rush's eighth studio album, released in
1981 has sold more than five meg copies. One of the most successful
rock bands in music history, Canada's Rush has sold more than 40 million
albums worldwide and continue to sell proscribed arenas world-wide.
Moving Pictures will be available for $10.99 (880 Microsoft Points) for
the record album, or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) per track, including the
following professional tracks:
1. Tom Sawyer
2. Red Barchetta
3. YYZ
4. Limelight
5. The Camera Eye
6. Witch Hunt
7. Vital Signs
Moving Pictures joins the influential Pixies album, Doolittle, Judas
Priest's Screaming For Vengeance and The Cars' "The Cars" as the fourth
full-album DLC release available at the Rock Band Music Store. With the
addition of these albums there ar now more than 200 tracks available to
date via disk and download purchase (complete list of tracks at
http://www.rockband.com/dlc). Rock Band continues to fly off shelves and
satisfy music fans and gamers' ravenous appetite for rock with more than
18 1000000 downloads since its launch on November 20, 2007. The Rock Band
Music Store allows players to preview and purchase downloadable private
music tracks and packs from the vast option of offerings available to
date without ever going the game as they build their own custom Rock Band
library.
Rock Band allows on-line play and features that expand the boundaries of
music gaming. Rock Band downloadable content is playable and structured
into setlists in all game modes including: Solo Tour, Band World Tour,
head-to-head competition either locally or online, and from whatever Quickplay
mode. In order to play downloadable content for head-to-head matches or
multiplayer online, all players moldiness own the same downloadable track.
Downloadable content for the Xbox 360(R) video game and amusement
system from Microsoft is available for purchase via Xbox LIVE(R)
Marketplace using Microsoft Points and is downloaded directly to the Xbox
360 hard take. Downloadable mental object for the PLAYSTATION(R)3 computing machine
entertainment system's version of Rock Band is available for purchase on
the PLAYSTATION(R)Store through the free PLAYSTATION(R)Network and is
downloaded directly to PLAYSTATION 3 system's built in hard drive.
On June 30, Harmonix, the world's prime minister music television game company in
the world, and MTV Games, announced the release of Rock Band 2 this coming
September and will reinforcement all antecedently downloaded content. The
groundbreaking music platform that forever changed the face of music video
games is attached to pickings gaming to the next level with the phylogenesis of
the franchise. Rock Band 2 will make its debut on Xbox 360 and be available
for extra platforms by and by this year.
Rock Band is rated "T" for Teen (lyrics, mild revelatory themes) by the
ESRB.
For more information on Rock Band and Harmonix Music Systems please
visit hypertext transfer protocol://www.rockband.com and http://www.harmonixmusic.com .
About MTV Networks
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world's leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that wage
and tie diverse audiences across video, online, mobile, games,
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About Harmonix Music Systems, Inc
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA, and established
in 1995, is the leading developer of groundbreaking ceremony music-oriented
videogames. Harmonix was founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, world Health Organization
formed the company to invent new ways for non-musicians to experience the
unique pleasure that comes from making music and have pioneered music and rhythm
gaming in the US. For more information please see: http://www.harmonixmusic.com
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About Electronic Arts
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is the world's leading interactive entertainment computer software company. Founded
in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive
software world-wide for picture game systems, personal computers, cellular
handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four-spot
brand names: EA SPORTS(TM), EA(TM), EA SPORTS Freestyle(TM) and POGO(TM).
In fiscal 2007, EA posted revenue of $3.09 billion and had 24 titles that
sold more than one and only million copies. EA's home page and on-line game land site is
hTTP://www.ea.com . More information around EA's products and full text of press
releases can be found on the Internet at hypertext transfer protocol://info.ea.com .
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