Rock band video games hit right note with music lovers
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The slashing riffs of Metallica, the solos of Deep Purple, the rage of the Sex Pistols: an increasing crop of video games are inviting players to live out their dreams of being a rock star.
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With the game set in the early 1990&#39;s, the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack will feature a large variety of tracks spanning the FM radio dial of the West Coast during this particularly influential period in American music and culture.
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Game over Review Guitar Hero III and Rock Band are totally unavoidable in shopping trips to consumer electronics stores. As a guitar player for 40 years, I view the in-store demos of the games as primarily exercises in pitiless annoyance. What could be more embarrassing than people holding plastic toy guitars in public while trying to mime along to classic rock hits played by cartoons on a TV screen?â¦
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Videogame fans get a taste of the latest games, including Rock Band and BioShock, and immerse themselves in gamer-geek culture at the Seattle show.
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Gamers have been able to get a taste of the technology behind the widely anticipated Half-Life 2.
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The videogame franchise that turned a generation of gamers into virtual shredders enlists real rockers to help stave off rival Rock Band.
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December 23, 2004 - Few would argue that Rockstar Games have set a precedent in terms of in-game music with their latest installment of Grand Theft Auto.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The hottest rock acts and  videogame technology are coming together for the second  Nintendo Fusion tour.
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Rarely does a video game excel in every way - story, graphics, sound, accessibility and replayability. &quot;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas&quot; is such a rarity.
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Like Led Zeppelin&#39;s &#39;&#39;Stairway to Heaven&#39;&#39; and Lynyrd Skynyrd&#39;s &#39;&#39;Freebird,&#39;&#39; classic video games like Frogger and Pong can bring back an entire era.
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It looks like MTV's "Rock Band"  video game is the new jukebox hero.
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DENVER (Billboard) - In the two months since MTV Networks  and Harmonix released the music-based videogame "Rock Band,"  players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million  additional songs made available after the game's initial  distribution.
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First impressions: Favorite games benefit from high-definition display.
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Video game makers are straying from virtual blood-and-guts battles to letting people play at being rock music stars.
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In the old days, heroes were commemorated with stone statues in public squares. In today's video game obsessed society, players can get a Mii.
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Would-be rock gods get to play awesome riffs using a new gizmo on show in Las Vegas
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The band that brought the  infectious grooves of "Hey Mama" and "Let's Get It Started" to  nightclubs across America has signed up to do the same for a  video game where success is measured by how cool players are.