Since launching in 2007, Harmonix’s Rock Band has launched over 2,800 DLC songs to maintain its rhythm recreation recent. Now, Harmonix has introduced the final of the collection’ releases will arrive on January 25, “marking the tip of an almost 16-year period in music gaming historical past,” experiences Ars Technica. From the report: Beforehand bought DLC songs will nonetheless be playable in Rock Band 4, Harmonix’s Daniel Sussman writes in an announcement publish. Rock Band 4 dwell companies, together with on-line play, can even proceed as regular, after on-line recreation modes for earlier Rock Band video games have been lastly shut down in late 2022. “Taking an extended look again, I see the Rock Band DLC catalog as an enormous achievement in persistence and dedication,” Sussman writes. “Through the years we have cleared, authored and launched practically 3,000 songs as DLC and properly over 3,000 in the event you embody all the sport soundtracks. That is wild.” […]
Whereas official help for Rock Band DLC is lastly ending, the neighborhood behind Clone Hero only in the near past hit an official Model 1.0 launch for his or her PC-based rhythm recreation that is suitable with many guitars, drums, keyboards, gamepads, and adapters utilized in Rock Band and different console rhythm video games (microphones excluded). Whereas that recreation would not include something like Rock Band’s checklist of formally licensed tune content material, it isn’t arduous to discover a bevy of downloadable, fan-made customized Clone Hero tracks with a bit little bit of looking out.
Since shortly after its acquisition by Epic in 2021, Harmonix has been engaged on “Fortnite Pageant,” the extremely Rock Band-esque mini-game embedded in Epic’s Fortnite “metaverse.” Sussman writes {that a} “rotating choice” of free-to-play songs will proceed to cycle via that recreation mode, and that help for Rock Band 4 devices will likely be coming to Fortnite sooner or later as properly (peripheral-maker PDP seems like it will likely be getting in on the Fortnite guitar act as properly). As for the previous few weeks of Rock Band DLC choices, Sussman writes that Harmonix is planning “some tear jerkers that sum up our emotions about this second.”
