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Friday22nd Mar 2024
News Get Your Hands On PDP's Pricey $130 Riffmaster Wireless Guitar Controller
Pre-orders live now, shipping in April
Peripheral manufacturer PDP revealed its upcoming Riffmaster Wireless Guitar Controller in February, and it's a pretty slick piece of kit. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to see it comes with a fairly hefty price tag: £100, $130, or your local equivalent. Pre-orders for the undeniably appealing plastic...
Wednesday31st Jan 2024
News New Guitar Controller for Fortnite Festival, Rock Band 4 Revealed for PS5, PS4
Available this spring
PDP will be releasing a new wireless guitar controller later this spring for PS5, PS4 that's solely compatible with Fortnite Festival and Rock Band 4. The device is said to sport up to 36 hours of battery on just a single charge, and will feature a thumbstick behind the guitar, supports both right and left-handed players, and...
Thursday18th Jan 2024
News Rock Band 4 to Get Final DLC Pack Almost a Decade After Launch
Time to get the old band back together
Iconic multiplayer rhythm game Rock Band 4 is getting one final DLC offering, despite first launching on PS4 back in 2015. No specifics on what exactly the pack would entail were shared, but its out next week, on 25th January. Harmonix shared the happy news in a press release, which reflects on the journey...
Wednesday15th Mar 2017
News Archer Is Entering the Danger Zone in Rock Band 4
No, really
Yeah, we're just as bemused as you are. Sterling Archer, the egotistical agent from animated TV comedy Archer, will soon be a playable character in Rock Band 4. The cocky spy will naturally arrive alongside Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone as part of the game's March content update. So... That's that, we suppose. Feel free to shout out your...
Monday25th Apr 2016
News Harmonix Shares Its Plans for the Future of Rock Band 4 at PAX East
Groove to the music
Rhythm game mainstays Harmonix had a panel on the final day of PAX East. During this panel, the dev outlined its plans for the future of Rock Band 4. There were several smaller announcements, as well as one bombshell reveal: online multiplayer will at last be arriving for the full-band rhythm game. While no firm release date was...
Tuesday27th Oct 2015
News Most of Rock Band 4's Legacy DLC Delayed in Europe
Bum note
European PlayStation players haven't had the best relationship with Sony in recent times, mainly due to late Store Updates and PlayStation Plus releases. Now, they have another reason to be mad, as EU Rock Band 4 owners can't seem to access over half of the Legacy DLC that launched last week – despite all of the DLC being available on the...
Wednesday7th Oct 2015
News Isn't There a Better Way to Present the Hundreds of Rock Band 4 Songs on the PS Store?
Get your act together
We've put up and shut up for long enough, but now the PlayStation Store's really taking the pee. So, anyone that's popped into the latest downloadable content section of the PlayStation 4's online plaza will know that it's been overrun with Rocksmith 2014 Edition songs and Dead or Alive 5 costumes in the past – but the...
Sunday30th Aug 2015
News Rock Band 4 Legacy Controllers Won't Require Extra Hardware on PS4
Unlike elsewhere
Here's a nice little bonus: you'll be able to save a bit of cash by buying Rock Band 4 on the PlayStation 4. While developer Harmonix is working with Mad Catz to produce a brand new batch of instruments for the forthcoming musical foray, it's also been busy beavering away on compatibility with most PlayStation 3 peripherals, too...
Tuesday11th Aug 2015
News PlayStation Plus Members Can Score Free Rock Band 4 Songs
But only if you pre-order from the PlayStation Store
Despite its reliance on physical peripherals, Rock Band 4 is probably the kind of game that you'll want stored on your PlayStation 4 hard drive at all times. There's good news for PlayStation Plus members, then, as pre-ordering the release digitally in North America will grant you access to ten...
Saturday13th Jun 2015
E3 2015 Harmonix Shows Off Rock Band 4's Box Art, Says to Stay Tuned to E3
Rock on
We're running out of time, folks. In mere hours Push Square's offices will have been thrown into pure madness. This year's E3 is looking to be especially busy, with developers increasingly keen on releasing snippets of news earlier than they're supposed to. Thanks a lot, guys. Seriously, though, E3 is keeping us pretty busy right now. We're...
Saturday16th May 2015
News Rock Band 4 Aims to Make Plastic Instruments on PS4 Fun Again
The Killers! Avenged Sevenfold! Fleetwood Mac!
You may have heard the Rumours regarding Rock Band 4's track list, but Harmonix has confirmed the first six songs that will launch alongside the PlayStation 4 title this fall. There's a bit of something for everyone here, from the clavinet-led 'You Make Loving Fun' by Fleetwood Mac to The Killers'...
Thursday5th Mar 2015
News Rock Band 4 Brings the Band Back Together on PS4 This Year
Amped up
Where there's smoke, there's fire – and there's been a Victorian-style smog wafting out of Massachusetts-based developer Harmonix of late. It's no surprise, then, that it's announced that Rock Band 4 is in production for the PlayStation 4, and is set to release later this year. It'll feature all of the tracks from previous versions, and,...
