Music games are making a comeback this year, with new editions of both Guitar Hero and Rock Band on the horizon. Thanks to a listing on Amazon, we know when gamers can get their hands on Rock Band 4, ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. But Rock Band developer Harmonix hasn't given up on the franchise. Although there's been a lack of recent peripheral-based music games, Harmonix CCO ...

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Harmonix is perhaps best known for pioneering the plastic instrument revolution of rhythm games, plucking along on a plastic guitar to popular songs while making the player feel like an absolute ...

I have a large surplus of plastic instruments, I play the Guitar Hero series on the 360 as I play on live with some IRL friends. the PS3 is my Rock Band system. Poor planning, but I didn't expect to ...

The old Rock Band instrements were aging and who knows, my 360 might completely give out someday, so now I don't have to figure out a way to maintain a bunch of old plastic instruments and an aging ...

Viacom will sell Harmonix, the creator of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band music videogames, signaling what one analyst called the death of the "plastic instrument business." The company announced its ...

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

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