Harmonix Is Ending Rock Band DLC Releases After 16 Years, 2,800 Songs

Since launching in 2007, Harmonix’s Rock Band has launched over 2,800 DLC songs to maintain its rhythm recreation contemporary. Now, Harmonix has introduced the final of the sequence’ releases will arrive on January 25, “marking the top of an almost 16-year period in music gaming historical past,” stories 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. “Over time we have cleared, authored and launched almost 3,000 songs as DLC and nicely over 3,000 in case you embrace all the sport soundtracks. That is wild.” […]

Whereas official assist for Rock Band DLC is lastly ending, the group behind Clone Hero only recently hit an official Model 1.0 launch for his or her PC-based rhythm recreation that is appropriate with many guitars, drums, keyboards, gamepads, and adapters utilized in Rock Band and different console rhythm video games (microphones excluded). Whereas that recreation does not include something like Rock Band’s record of formally licensed track content material, it is not arduous to discover a bevy of downloadable, fan-made customized Clone Hero tracks with slightly little bit of looking.

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 by that recreation mode, and that assist for Rock Band 4 devices might be coming to Fortnite sooner or later as nicely (peripheral-maker PDP seems to be like will probably be getting in on the Fortnite guitar act as nicely). 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.”