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Rock Band Weekly: Hoobastank, Cutting Crew, Whitesnake

Alexander Sliwinski — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:00:00 EST

In the still of the night, I hear the wolf howl, honey, sniffing around next week's Rock Band DLC. Whitesnake's "Still of the Night" is on the docket for the next Rock Band Music Store update, along with hits from Hoobastank and Cutting Crew.

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SingStar goes 'Back To The 80s,' would do anything for love (but won't do that)

Jordan Mallory — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:00:00 EST

As any karaoke connoisseur will tell you, the only sure-fire way to win the minds and hearts of your audience is through the hypnotically entrancing black magic of the power ballad. Sony realizes this, and in order to ensure maximum audience mind malleability, it'll be releasing SingStar Back To The 80s sometime before Christmas.

The songpack will feature "30 massive hits" (we're guessing Meatloaf) from the decade of Devo and decadence, although no specific songlist has been released as of yet. Even so, the news has us feeling all nostalgic for the smell of hairspray and Whitesnake's Still Of The Night. If only our oversized glasses, tight jeans, and v-neck t-shirts would come back into fashion, we could... what's that? No. You're kidding.

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Whitesnake songs coming to one music game or another, Coverdale not sure

Mike Schramm — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Sure, you could guess that it was sex, drugs or rock and roll that addled Whitesnake vocalist David Coverdale's mind so much that he can't recall with any clarity which music game franchise he recently approved the band's "Here I Go Again" and "Still of the Night" for. And you'd probably be right -- if anyone took too many drugs and rocked a little too hard in the late '80s, it was probably Coverdale.

But don't jump to conclusions. Did you ever consider that maybe he was choosing to make a statement about the genre and its recent creative stagnation? Perhaps by saying, "I can't remember which one," he was actually opining that we haven't seen any real innovation in the "strum on the note" experience since the first Rock Band added other instruments. Perhaps Coverdale was actually calling for both Harmonix and Neversoft to reach out for originality, distinguish themselves and their respective games, and stop releasing copy after copy of what are essentially the same experiences. It was either that, or the too many drugs thing.

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