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Rock Band 4

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ROCK BAND 4 IS COMING, AND HARMONIX IS BRINGING IT BACK TO BASICS




By Ben Kuchera
March 05, 2015

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Harmonix is getting the band back together.


The rhythm game genre seemed unstoppable for a number of years as both Activision's stable of developers and Harmonix cranked out sequel after sequel to the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises, respectively.

Fans bought game after game, along with expensive plastic versions of musical instruments so they could pretend to be in a rock band while pretending to play music in their living rooms.

Then, nearly as suddenly, it all stopped. Harmonix moved onto other projects, and Activision shuttered or collapsed a number of studios that were working on the Guitar Hero series. The era of plastic instruments ended not with a bang, but with a whimper.


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