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Rock Band 3 confirmed for Holiday 2010 release photo

Shocking news from the music gaming front -- Rock Band 3 has been confirmed for a holiday 2010 release. 

News comes by way Viacom CEO and President Philippe Dauman, and subsequently tweeted by Harmonix public relations master of disaster, John Drake. 

"Also, it's going to be awesome," Drake followed up, "confirmed."

So there you have it. Details are unknown at this time, but we'd hope we'll start getting some info soon. For now, let us know your Rock Band 3 feature and song "do wants."








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Mr Andy Dixon's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:14
Mr Andy Dixon
Whaaaaaaaaaat?
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:15
falinter
Do want Japanese rock band ::wakes up:: ahh what a nice dream.
Shadowiii's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:16
Shadowiii
Sweet.
Occams electric toothbrush's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:17
Occams electric toothbrush
<looks up from work>

/shrug

<goes back to work>
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:17
Tubatic
Well crap....

If this is easily backward compatible, I'll just wait for this then...

If not, I needs to get on this horse and get some simulated plastic instrument Ga Ga on.
Vanilla Gorilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:19
Vanilla Gorilla
WTB Setlist
Jarmel's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:20
Jarmel
I didn't see this coming at all.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:20
Xzyliac
AHHHH!!!

STOP NICK! My heart can't take all this awesome news in one day.
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:23
Monodi
I came here expecting Xzyliac's excitement.

I am not disappointed.
Jack Seibert's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:24
Jack Seibert
Just FYI, that is not a screenshot from RB3, but rather a very early build of RB1.
GoldenGamerXero's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:24
GoldenGamerXero
Lady Gaga made Rockband so awesome they had to upgrade just to please the Gaga.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:26
GuitarAtomik
Steal drop-in drop-out party play from GH5 and I'll be a happy camper. Also a way to share money between multiple created characters.
KanzlerMartok's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:26
KanzlerMartok
any combination of instruments would be nice of course.

more jonathon coulton on wii would be nice too.
SuperMonk4Ever's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:26
SuperMonk4Ever
Ah, hells yeah! The two year wait will be worth it. :D
DarkMagic56's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:29
DarkMagic56
Glad to hear this news but I still have a bad taste in my mouth about Lady Gag Ah heading to RB.
airbagtelex's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:31
airbagtelex
more Radiohead songs plz
KIDA26's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:35
KIDA26
I assume they will be adding harmonies to this installment. It would also be nice if they added harmonies to all the existing DLC... that would be pretty sweet. I will probably buy it even though I don't play it that much anymore.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:36
Xzyliac
Definitely steal drop-in/drop-out. Also, let us skip songs in Quickplay.

Real simple things are a given.

And moar music videos.
KIDA26's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:36
KIDA26
Also, THIS:

" airbagtelex
more Radiohead songs plz"
Ninjabunny's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:37
Ninjabunny
F YES! I've been waiting for the next true installment to upgrade my drum set. This cannot happen soon enough.
Thane Vickers's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:41
Thane Vickers
Upgraded graphics, please! Also, I don't know if anyone else thought of this, but when drumming, the one snare, three toms fill thing blows ass. Make it so that there's a few templates for the fills sounds depending on the song or simply allow us to pick the fill sounds for each pad. That would be great! (Beatles: Rock Band importing?)
pezking6983's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:42
pezking6983
Hell yes. As much as I don't care for GH ever since it's been pumped out, they have taken the time to implement some awesome features and the new enginge used in GH5 is way ahead of RB and it's poor interface and menus. Please RB, use this time to make the game faster, more customizable and let me have savable custom setlists! Also, let me use my charater in quickplay cuz that's all I play after I beat the game.
SandNMyShorts's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:44
SandNMyShorts
this game will finally force me to upgrade my measly 20gb hard drive
IonDan's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:44
IonDan
As long as it has a setlist transfer for RB1+2 I would buy day 1 without a second thought.
VinceNotVance's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:46
VinceNotVance
Wow, I wasn't expecting this news so soon. I figured we'd hear about it at E3 or something.

Ok. I'm definitely buying it first day. All Harmonix needs to do is polish the game a bit more, tighten up the graphics (on level 3), give us some awesome music (which they've been doing for 2+ years now) and completely out and out steal the Party Play mode from Guitar Hero 5.
Xhumation's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:47
Xhumation
Day one purchase as long as it's backwards compatible.
vApathyv's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:48
vApathyv
Fuck. Is this just like, International Make Rock Band Fans Have A Cheergasm Day? Next you'll tell me they'll have a trailer available in a week or a feature list coming...
Brandon Kelly's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:49
Brandon Kelly
HARMONIES HARMONIES HARMONIES HARMONIES HARMON
Edge2k10's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:50
Edge2k10
Whoa this is completley out of left field. But damn if I'm not excited! I can't wait! Day one, baby!
Discarded Couch Sandwich's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:51
Discarded Couch Sandwich
I'll need to free a lot of space on my harddrive if I want to import all my RB2 songs to this.

I'm kinda sad though that i'll have two games on my shelf after this that are completely redundant. I had some good times with Rock Band 1 and 2...
VinceNotVance's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 13:54
VinceNotVance
Actually, I jumped the gun. If this game is backwards compatibile with the dozens of songs I've bought or downloaded from other games and it still uses the original equipment (remember that rumor about "realistic" guitar controllers?), then it'll be a first day purchase. I still can't justify a $100+ purchase at this time.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:04
Xzyliac
Unless they radically change the file format RB has been using since GH1 and that Reaper uses for RBN backwards compatibility is not even an issue.

And since they just did the overhaul from hand doing everything to Reaper that's just not gonna happen.

The only thing people might want to worry about is RB2 disc songs but Harmonix has been really good with that. In that respect nobody can say anything negative about them.
moose39's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:08
moose39
Going to the midnight release if the setlist is top notch. Getting it on day one if not.
Chad Almasy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:11
Chad Almasy
Oh -JOY-. More useless giant boxes of video games to take up space in the backroom of the retailer I work for. We'll just add this to the 5000 Guitar Hero III bundles we have marked down to $50 not-moving from it's place of display.
XxCollyerxX's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:11
XxCollyerxX
Wow they're really going all out with Rock Band. Guitar Hero is quickly being swallowed by it, that's for sure. I remember back in the day before I knew RB even existed and GH was the best of the best!
XxCollyerxX's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:11
XxCollyerxX
Wow they're really going all out with Rock Band. Guitar Hero is quickly being swallowed by it, that's for sure. I remember back in the day before I knew RB even existed and GH was the best of the best!
El-Sveppi's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:19
El-Sveppi
As long as it has Muse then I'll be happy :)
fetusmilk's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:24
fetusmilk
dont care. music games have sucked since GH 2.
brownjohn's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:27
brownjohn
I don't think my sarcasm meter is working, because I'm having a really hard time telling if people are genuinely suprised bý this announcement.
OWENR22's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:32
OWENR22
If it gives me the option to turn any song I like into a playable track effortlessly, then I will definitely buy it.

Hint Hint, Harmonix.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:34
Xzyliac
@brownjohn
Nobody is surprised per se but it's been a whole since Rock Band got a genuine sequel.

They always hinted at 2010 but now it's official.
silvain's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 14:45
silvain
Great. Looking forward to it. I'd also like to share money between characters, plz.

I think it's funny that all of the rb release screenshots still use rockaway beach, which was dlc.
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 15:00
Bob Muir
I know they might consider making gameplay enhancements by that point, so I guess my main request would be that my massive song catalog still works with full support in Rock Band 3, possibly with added enhancements. That would truly drive home the idea of Rock Band as a "platform" to me.
Arch649's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 15:07
Arch649
I honestly didn't see this coming. Looking forward to it.
DV2FOX's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 15:39
DV2FOX
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYES!!!!!!!!

They better do a worldwide release,including europeans + Spain...NO MORE DELAYS
Joeigglypuff's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 15:53
Joeigglypuff
put some pink floyd and led zeppelin in there and i'll be happy
comfortably numb would be the most epic song ever to be played
CrispyWaffle's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 16:23
CrispyWaffle
can I haz Arctic Monkeys please? :3
Corduroy Turtle's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2010 16:25
Corduroy Turtle
Please allow me to rate my songs so that I can organize songs by awesomeness. I have so many songs at this point that I have trouble remembering if I like/hate a song.

5 star rating system, that's all.
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