Ikaruga Comes to XBox Live This Week

April 7, 2008 – 3:19 pm

Major Nelson has confirmed that the much-anticipated Ikaruga is on its way to the XBox Live Arcade this week. Ikaruga is an award winning Japanese side-scroller shoot-em-up game with a legion of fans backing. The game features single player levels as well as two-player coop (online as well as off) and releases on Wednesday for 800 MS points ($10).

Source: MajorNelson

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“Still Alive” Is Downloadable NOW

March 31, 2008 – 9:14 pm

Joco

Contrary to the April 1 release that Harmonix announced earlier today for Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive” free downloadable song for Rock Band, the song is actually available now. If you have Rock Band for the XBox 360, there’s really no reason at all for your not leaving the computer to go get this immediately.

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“Still Alive” For Free On Rock Band!

March 31, 2008 – 1:13 pm

Portal

Harmonix has announced that this week’s Rock Band downloadable content will be none other than “Still Alive” by Jonathan Coulton, from the hit game Portal. This song has been a hugely anticipated release ever since JoCo made the official announcement about it coming to the game when he played it Rock Band-style in concert (see the video evidence below). Even better, the song will cost you every bit of ZERO dollars!

“Still Alive” releases on the XBox 360 tomorrow (April 1), but it won’t be on the Playstation 3 for a couple more weeks due to work Sony is doing on the PSN store.

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Boston Pack for Rock Band

March 25, 2008 – 1:30 pm

080325bostonThis week’s downloadable content for Rock Band is a great big song pack of six tracks by Boston. You can buy each of the songs separately for 160 MS points ($2), or you can grab the whole bundle for 800 MS points ($10) and get one of the songs for free. Here’s the full breakdown:

Boston Pack 01 (includes all 6 songs) – 800 MS

  • “More Than a Feeling” by Boston – 160 MS
  • “Peace of Mind” by Boston – 160 MS
  • “Smokin” by Boston – 160 MS
  • “Rock & Roll Band” by Boston – 160 MS
  • “Something About You” by Boston – 160 MS
  • “Hitch A Ride” by Boston – 160 MS

And don’t forget that you can download these through the new Rock Band Store within the game. No more having to interrupt your rocking to jump out to the dashboard!

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