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Rock out to "Still Alive" now!

by Xav de Matos on Mar 31st 2008 7:25PM

Earlier in the day we reported that tomorrow would bring "Still Alive," the end sequence tune from the smash-hit Portal, to Rock Band. Well, fire up your Xbox 360's fanboys and girls because Christmas has come early as "Still Alive" is available on the Xbox Live Marketplace today. The 18MB download will set you back exactly 0MS Points ($0.00 in any currency) and features one of the best gaming inside jokes of 2007. Go grab it now!

[Thanks, Z3nGaijin & Ben]

Tags: downloadable-content, ea, mtv, portal, rock-band

Reader Comments (34)

Lets do this thang!

Anyone want to play it?

I hope this is still up by the time I get home from work.

When I try to download it, it doesn't go beyond 1% then about 5 minutes goes by and it says that it can't download it. :(

In Europe, no one can hear you Rock (Band).

I downloaded it, it worked and it's pretty awesome. Thanks for the free song Harmonix!

Good. For a minute there, I thought this was going to be an April fool's joke ...

I love Harmonix!

It's there, GLaDOS and all!!!

The April 1st announcement is a lie!

I'm making a note here: This was a triumph.

I downloaded it incase they take it down because of April 1st!

Thanks for the heads up! I just downloaded the song. I was surprised to see that they even had the song on the Rock Band Store with album art.

my girlfriend and I just played through it 4 times - it rocks!

I think it's just optimism but what if they said that this would be the DLC (and it is, technically), but then tomorrow, "April Fools! Not only GlaDOS but also Who's Next! Enjoy!"

Add me on XBL if you wanna play: TwistedD00M

Best...song...ever...

hooray! download complete :)

I am so happy :D

Well I have to give EA props for this, giving all us nerds a free song so we stop ranting about how much DLC costs. Smart

I never played Portal and don't like the song but it's free, so...whatever.

BTW: Misspelled "Still" in a sentence there.

I've heard the song twice before downloading it. If you think this is "Teh Best Song Evar" you know nothing about music. It's OK, but honestly, 10 years from now who is going to remember it? More people will associated "Mad, Mad World" with Gears than they will this song. And speaking of "Mad, Mad World," someone has covered it as a rock song. Now THAT should show on Rock Band.

Deezul... Because "Mad World" was never covered as a rock song... BTW music isn't about how hard it is to write or create its about how well you enjoy and is all subjective...

Anyway. Still Alive is a great tune even it is simplistic by the idealogy of musicality... But it sure beats the hell out of 99% of today's music. Even the historically great bands can't come out with anything worth listening to..... They should look into getting classic 80s tv themes like thundercats, transformers, voltron and GI Joe in there... Now that would be cool...

Downloaded it and played it, like the song, but have not played portal. Little easy on guitar in my opinion.

It's just a funny song with a good sense of melody. I enjoyed playing through it and I certainly can't complain about the price. Everyone can't love everything I guess.

Who cares if anyone remembers it in 10 years? The fact is that it's popular now, it's continued to be popular for several months and it's a fun song for a great, great game. A game that will likely not be forgotten in 10 years whatsoever to begin with, meaning that as time goes on more and more people will be exposed to it.

I doubt anyone is going to be playing Rock Band on their 360 at that point anyway. We'll be on the next system and Rock Band 3 by then.

This made my day.

Rock Band FTW

My friend started singing and I almost cried. layed a good 6 times.

96%d singing on Medium, and FAILED COMPLETELY on guitar on Medium...I suck! Haha!!

I love the song tho!

Deezul: 'Mad World' (by Tears for fears) was written and released as a pop song long before it was used in a game advert. 'Still Alive' is a song written specifically for a video game. In this case, Portal.

There is a difference.

I never said there wasn't a difference; I was just commenting on someone saying this is the greatest song ever. Please. If it WAS, then Harmonix would have charged for it. If it wasn't free, I know I wouldn't pay for it, and I'm sure even some fans of it wouldn't pay either.

Even though Still Alive is good and fun, I probably wouldn't have paid for it. If they had Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World" up there though, I would pay for it, cuz that song is slick. Even though I don't *think* there is a guitar at all in that version, let alone two.

My brother and I played this about 4 or so times last night.

Another thing to add to my "Good Times" list.

we should have got Code Monkey instead, oh well Still Alive is funny too

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