Creative Commons Attribution license; http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/3400039653/ (Top photo represents”The Golden Egg”, from The goose that laid the golden egg.) This is a two-part post. Whenever I’m writing about Music Games, my first thought is: how can I find enough to make this interesting. Second thought: How can I limit the length of this, to KEEP it interesting. [...]
Here’s some of the latest links and information I have found for Rock Band Network. (Unfortunately none of them has any extra information about a rags-to-riches on RBN… yet!) Harmonix’s Rock Band Network partners with Distribution, Promotion Sites (Gamasutra) The article talks about cross-promotion between musician tools Tunecore, Nimbit, Reverb Nation, Indaba Music, and Topspin; while [...]
Well, I was going to promise not to talk about “the Big A” until next week. But I read perhaps the best legal article on gamer’s law in six months. You can read it here… http://copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com/2010/04/law-of-avatars-copyright-act-doesnt.html (Copyright Litigation Blog) Read the whole thing, and then pop back in here. I’ll wait.
Here’s the continuation of my series on making REAL money with virtual games. The second part on Rock Band Network. 1st caveat: Right now it’s only for Xbox 360, though PS3 promised soon. More after the jump….
Flickr photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marfis75/3867466806/sizes/o/ under Creative Commons copyright. It’s been hundreds of years since any new type of music notation has been developed. Is the submission system of Rock Band Network (uploaded and put into the game) a new type of multimedia music notation? Well, even if it is, it must work within the framework of the [...]
According to an article on the WSJ.com, today is the day. Well-done piece on the technical and financial aspects of uploading your own band’s tracks to be sold on the Rock Band Network. 30 cents is not as good a deal per dollar as Itunes, (50 cents?), but then again the competition is less. Here [...]
Does this strike a chord with you? Viacom announced that MTV Games plans later this year to launch a service that will let any musical artist upload and submit their songs for possible inclusion in its “Rock Band” music video game, Billboard reported. Developers with MTV’s Harmonix studio will review submissions for playability, lyrics and [...]
Several media reports state a budding dispute between former band members of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain’s band, and also Courtney Love, Cobain’s widow, about the Kurt Cobain character in GH5. Courtney Love signed contract for GH5 use of Kurt Cobain character The article states “Guitar Hero secured the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in [...]
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