Rock Band Takes On Guitar Hero

This holiday shopping season promises a musical showdown between virtual guitar loving video game players as Electronic Arts’ Rock Band aims at Activision’s Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.Developed by Neversoft, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is on store shelves now for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for $99.99 and the Wii and PS2 for $89.99. Rock Band, meanwhile, was developed by Harmonix, the company MTV bought last year for $175 million. The game hit the store shelves on November 20 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 systems.

“We are excited to unleash some of the most beloved rock songs of all time for consumers to customize their Rock Band game experience — for an amazing price,” said Paul DeGooyer, senior vice president of MTV Games. Most of the songs are selling for $1.99, and include classics from The Police, Metallica, and Foreigner. The actual game sells for about $60, or $160 for the entire system.

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Can Kindle Be iPod of E-Book World?

For all the pundit opinions about the Kindle, Amazon.com’s just-introduced e-book reader, MarketIntelNow is offering up the voices of consumers in a new report that drills down into reasons why these devices might or might not take off.During the first week of November, MarketIntelNow polled 5,000 online consumers about the buzz-making gizmo. The overarching conclusion: E-books will take off when the right device is introduced. Could that device be the Kindle?

Peeking into the survey results, 38 percent of respondents chose “lack of a cool design” as their main objection to buying a handheld e-book device. Only 21 percent cited cost as the barrier. Twenty-one percent also noted reading on a screen was an objection.

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