Motley Crue releasing Saints of Los Angeles single on Rock Band

Filed under: Music, News, Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360 | By: Mark
Posted on: April 16, 2008 | No Comments

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Video games are the future as well as music, so combine the two together and you have something really special. Well the latest news is that the rock ‘n’ roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single called “Saints of Los Angeles” through the game Rock Band.

The single called “Saints of Los Angeles,” is indeed the first single from Motley Crue’s upcoming album which will be available for download for 99 cents (50 pence), you can download this via Sony Corp’s PlayStation store on Thursday and Microsoft Corp’s Xbox Live Marketplace on Tuesday Viacom Inc’s MTV Games said.

In the Rock Band game all gamers will be able to play along to songs with their guitar controllers, microphone or drum set. The game is sold for around about $170 for consoles such as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, it is similar to that of Guitar Hero.

Using big named bands is a new way to earn money via games such as this and with CD sales dropping fast can see this being the next big step forward. The game Rock Band went on sale last year in November and now has more than 80 tracks available for download and in addition to the 58 tracks in the original game.

MTV Games themselves have said that players have bought more than 6 million downloadable songs for Rock Band which is staggering, the details of the Motley Crue album is expected to be announced during a news conference in Hollywood on Tuesday.

The question is “Are you a Motley Crue fan?

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