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Open source music video game StepMania. A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs. Music video games may take a variety of forms and are often grouped with puzzle games ...
(In contrast, audio games rely solely on audio elements in a game.) Several forms of music video game exist today with rhythm games dominating the market. Lesser-known forms include pitch- and volume-based games, eidetic musical memory games, free-form music games, and a variety of hybrid and mixed forms.
The Rock Band series of music video games supports downloadable songs for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Wii versions through the consoles' respective online services. Harmonix typically provides three to six new tracks per week available to all consoles as listed below.
Musician video games are video games in which professional musicians and/or member of the music industry ( singers, guitarists, bands, etc.) have actively participated through creation and/or development. Non-game digital multimedia created by musicians may also be considered "musician video games" despite the lack of traditional game-play.
This is a list of video games that their main focus is a single musical band. This is usually in the form of music video games , but may encompass other video games as well. Pages in category "Band-centric video games"
Rock Band is a 2007 rhythm game developed by Harmonix, published by MTV Games, and distributed by Electronic Arts.It is the first installment in the Rock Band series.The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions were released in North America on November 20, 2007, [2] while the PlayStation 2 version was released on December 18, 2007 [5] and the Wii version on June 22, 2008.
The game is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Wii game consoles. Rock Band is based on Harmonix's previous success with the Guitar Hero series of video games in which players used a guitar-shaped controller to simulate playing rock music.