{"id":8603,"date":"2007-04-03T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T08:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/rock-band-wants-you\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T11:25:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T08:25:42","slug":"rock-band-wants-you","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/rock-band-wants-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Band Wants YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Music Television, EA Partners<\/i> and <i>Harmonix<\/i> have announced that they are developing a game which lets the gamers form their own rock band. The ingeniously named game, <i>Rock Band<\/i>, will support peripherals such as guitar\/bass, drum, and microphone and gives the player a chance to create a band with his friends. Rock Band is in development for Xbox 360 and PS3.<br \/>\nRock Band features rock music from many different genres and decades. Thanks to Music Television, <i>EMI Music, Hollywood Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group\u00b4s Universal Music Enterprises<\/i> and <i>Warner Music Group\u00b4s Rhino Entertainment<\/i> have agreed to supply the game with their artist\u00b4s master recordings.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u0093Harmonix was founded to create new ways for everyone to experience the pleasure and satisfaction that comes from playing music. Our work on Guitar Hero was an instrumental step toward that goal,\u0094<\/i> stated <b>Alex Rigopulos<\/b>, co-founder and CEO of Harmonix. <i>\u0093But Rock Band is Harmonix\u0092s most ambitious project to date, and it will take music gameplay to an entirely new level. MTV has given us the freedom and the resources to really swing for the fences and make the game we\u0092ve always wanted to make.\u0094<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u0093Our vision for Rock Band is to completely change the way people interact with and enjoy the music they love,\u0094<\/i> said <b>Jeff Yapp<\/b>, EVP, MTV Program Enterprises. <i>\u0093By joining forces with EA and the music industry\u0092s largest record labels and publishers, we are striving to create a groundbreaking new platform that allows people to connect with their favorite music and artists in ways they never have before.\u0094<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Rock Band is distributed through EA Partners program and is scheduled to be released in holiday season 2007.<\/p>\n<div class=\"small\" style=\"color: rgb(160, 167, 164);\" align=\"right\"><i>Source: Press Release<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Television, EA and Harmonix have announced that they are developing a game which lets the gamers form their own rock band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news\/8603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}