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Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that Rock Band 3, the new music simulation title coming in the fall, will feature no less than 83 tracks on the disk and will allow for more simulation options that any other competing title.
In addition to keeping the three part vocal harmonies, which were initially seen in last year's The Beatles: Rock Band, the fresh game will be delivering a keyboard peripheral set to permit players to experience music as they have never done before.
Harmonix is also making it easier for players to customize their songs lists and then share them with friends and other players, allowing for music tastes to be more easily discerned. The list of songs the developer has confirmed for Rock Band 3 includes:
Metric - “Combat Baby”
Rilo Kiley - “Portions for Foxes”
Them Crooked Vultures - “Dead End Friends”
The Vines - “Get Free”
The White Stripes - “The Hardest Button to Button”
Phoenix - “Lasso”
Ida Maria - “Oh My God”
Juanes - “Me Enamora”
Jane’s Addiction - “Been Caught Stealing”
Smash Mouth - “Walkin’ on the Sun”
Spacehog - “In the Meantime”
Stone Temple Pilots - “Plush”
Dio - “Rainbow in the Dark”
Huey Lewis and the News - “The Power of Love”
Joan Jett - “I Love Rock and Roll”
Night Ranger - “Sister Christian”
Whitesnake - “Here I Go Again”
The Cure - “Just Like Heaven”
Ozzy Osbourne - “Crazy Train”
Queen - “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Jimi Hendrix - “Crosstown Traffic”
The Doors - “Break On Through.”
Rock Band 3 is also set to allow players to import music they have downloaded for previous games in the series in order to make sure that the library of tracks offered to fans is as big and varied as possible, with close to 2,000 tracks available.
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Ricky Cadden and Rita El Khoury, alias The Guru and Dotsisx have announced their decision to stop updating their Symbian-Guru website, a place where they used to write about Nokia devices and the Symbian OS for more than three years. The decision to close down a website that has become a brand for Symbian fans should not be taken lightly by Nokia.
In the past year, the Finnish company has lost an important number of websites that defended itsSymbian OS such as World of Nokia andNokiaAddict just to name a few. What's really sad and alarming is the fact that Cadden was forced to take the decision mostly because of his bad experience with one of Nokia's “flagship”devices, the N97.
Moreover, the fact that Symbian is still being ignored by the most important developers of popular online services drags the OS even further behind compared to the newer platforms. According to Cadden, Nokia also failed to ensure proper marketing of its brand in the US. While the Europeans stumble on each other to get their hands on the latest high-end devices made by Nokia, only mid to low-ranged devices get selected for distribution in the USA.
Another important reason that made Cadden quit Symbian is the fact that Nokia slacked big time in the last few years. The times when Nokia had the best smartphones, the best cameras, the best GPS units are long gone. Now it's Sony Ericsson with their excellent mobile phone cameras, Samsung with its AMOLED techonology or HTC with the Sense UI. Furthermore, the "acclaimed" Ovi services that have been announced two years ago are still showing their limitations (see Ovi Contacts).
Last, but not least, Cadden stated: “I can't continue to support a manufacturer who puts out such craptastic ‘flagships’ as the N97, and who expects me to use services that even most of Nokia’s own employees don’t use.” Even if the newly rumored N8would be better than the old N97, the fact that it runs the same Symbian OS, after the company officially stated that the new OS for high-end device will be Meego, looks to me like they're shooting themselves in the foot. For the full statement written by Ricky and Rita click here.
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Though it would be completely understandable to assume that 25-year-old soccer stud Cristiano Ronaldo simply can’t take one step without the media knowing about it – complete with pictures – it seems that the star can – and does – keep secrets if he wants to. Cristiano has just become a father and he’s the firs to break the news to his fans.
Addressing them in a message on his newly set up Twitter and Facebook accounts, Cristiano reveals that he’s just become the happy father of a baby boy. Although immensely happy about it, the star refuses to reveal more details on what is undoubtedly a very personal affair – and even says that the mother of the child has asked him not to have her name made public in the press. What he does say, though, is that he’ll be the guardian of the baby boy, so fans should expect some pictures and even more details soon enough.
“It is with great joy and emotion that I inform I have recently become father to a baby boy. As agreed with the baby's mother, who prefers to have her identity kept confidential, my son will be under my exclusive guardianship. No further information will be provided on this subject and I request everyone to fully respect my right to privacy (and that of the child) at least on issues as personal as these are,” Ronaldo writes in the statement that came as quite a shock for everybody.
Last time the star made headlines for matters pertaining to his personal life, he had supposedly just spent the night with none other than socialite Kim Kardashian, who flew on private jet to where he was for the romantic rendezvous. “The ex-glamour girl was spotted snogging in a top restaurant with cheeky winker Ronaldo, 25, after watching him play for Real Madrid. And later she jumped in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes G-Wagon which discreetly followed Ronaldo’s Audi RS6 back to his city mansion. Kim stayed about four hours. The following day she was driven to the airport in the same car to fly home to the States,” The Sun wrote in April this year, as we also informed you.
As of now, since news of Cristiano becoming a father is still very fresh, even the tabloids are not saying anything from the usual, so-called reliable “insiders.” However, in just a couple of days, fans should expect the rumor mill to go into motion – so keep an eye on this space for when it does.
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