Music Games; Delete? or just hitting “pause”

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.  [...]

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Making Money on Rock Band Network (III)

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 [...]

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Making money with Rock Band (Part II)

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….

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Rock Band Network: A new kind of music law?

    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 [...]

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Rock Band Network launches

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 [...]

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Music games as music platform?

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 [...]

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