Rocking your blocks off: LEGO Rock Band released

Warner Bros. Interactive has released LEGO Rock Band, much to the delight of kids and adults alike - assuming the game is good, of course. Combining Rock and Roll with the popular building blocks, LEGO Rock Band adds LEGO style into the Rock Band formula. The game features 45 songs and at launch and lets players of all skill levels play bass, drums, guitar and mic to such songs from Queen, Foo Fighters, Jackson 5, The All-American Rejects, Jimi Hendrix, Good Charlotte, Tom Petty and more.

Unique to LEGO Rock Band is the introduction of Rock Power Challenges, where players can harness the power of rock to pull off killer riffs that have the ability to do crazy things like demolish a building, stop an angry octopus or send players on wild missions. Naturally the game promises build-and-play elements that let players customize their own experience by creating a minifigure avatar, band and entourage.

The game will also be supported by the Rock Band Store’s regular release of weekly content as well, with some tunes already ready for purchase. LEGO Rock Band is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and various incarnations of the DS.

LEGO Rock Band DS details

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, the LEGO Group, Harmonix, MTV Games, and the little people of the LEGO universe revealed details on the DS version of LEGO Rock Band. As you probably already know, LEGO Rock Band combines the LEGO style of humor with Rock Band gameplay. The Ds version introduces a portable Rock Band experience that anyone can play without the need for peripherals and the game includes a multiplayer feature that allows up to four players to participate in a local wireless multiplayer jam session.

The DS version of LEGO Rock Band offers a LEGO build-and-play gaming experience where players can customize their minifigure avatars to create their own individual LEGO Rock Band style. The game does not require any peripherals, as players can use the DS buttons or touchscreen to play any or all parts of a song: Bass, Guitar, Drums and Vocals.

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LEGO Harry Potter game official

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games officially announced LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, the first game based on the popular Harry Potter book series re-imagined with the wonderful aid of LEGO blocks. Based on the first four Harry Potter books and movies that tell the story of Harry’s first four years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 mixes LEGO gameplay and light-hearted humor in a retelling of the grandest moments from both the books and films.

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 will give gamers the chance to experience Harry Potter in a new and uniquely LEGO way playing as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as well as other favorite characters. Players will attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks and complete tasks to earn house points. Throughout the game, players will also have the freedom to explore familiar settings including Hogwarts castle, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade.

Look for more details this week from E3. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is being developed by TT Games and will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is scheduled for release in 2010. Platforms are to be announced.

The adventure continues: LEGO Indiana Jones 2

LucasArts and Traveler’s Tales are teaming up once again to bring another LEGO Indiana Jones game to fans this fall. LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues combines the fun of LEGO bricks with the clever humor, and over abundance of cuteness, and a unique take on all the Indiana Jones films – including for the first time, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. LEGO Indiana Jones 2 follows Dr. Jones’ escapades from the jungles of South America to the Peruvian Ruins and beyond - and lets them build their own levels brick by brick if they so choose.

This will be the first LEGO game that features the Build Your Own Adventure Mode, which allows you to create your own levels and environments and share them with your friends - you can even create your own levels and combine them with the existing ones in the game. Other features include new characters like Mutt Williams on his motorcycle, all new animations, the ability to jump in and drive a number of new vehicles, two-player drop-in drop-out coop, an improved whip that does more, story mode and free play mode, and lots of other new improvements.

Look for the game this fall on Xbox 360, PS3, DS, PSP, Windows and Wii.

LEGO Rock Band in Holiday 2009

What’s made of LEGOs and rocks you like a hurricane? According to an official announcement from Traveler’s Tales Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Harmonix, LEGO Rock Band. Yeah, after all the speculation and posturing, it turns out that the rumors were true. Dubbed a “family-friendly music experience,” LEGO Rock Band players will build a band and rock the world.

The Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 versions of the game will be developed by TT Games with the help of Harmonix, while the DS version will be developed with Backbone Entertainment and Harmonix at the helm. All versions will be released sometime in holiday 2009. Players will be able to create their own LEGO Rock Band style as they customize their minifigure avatars, band and entourage, including roadies, managers and crew. LEGO Rock Band supports Rock Band instruments, as well as other music game controllers. Players can also expect local venues, stadiums and fantasy locations on Earth and beyond that attempt to capture the imaginative settings of the LEGO toy universe.

The game will offer multiplayer similar to what is in the Rock Band games, but a full accounting is to be revealed at a later date. Some of the songs to expect in LEGO Rock Band include Blur’s Song 2, Carl Douglas’ classic Kung-Fu Fighting, Europe’s 80’s power ballad The Final Countdown, Good Charlotte’s
Boys and Girls and Pink’s So What. No doubt more tunes and more details are to be announced later this year.

Warner Bros. and TT Games Announce LEGO Battles

Just when we all got used to tacking the word LEGO before a movie or comic franchise and seeing the game sell a ridiculous number of copies, Warner Bros. Interactive and TT Games had to go and change things up on us. The duo announced today that they are teaming up with The LEGO Group to deliver LEGO Battles for the Nintendo DS. LEGO Battles is being produced by TT Games, developed by Hellbent Games, and published by Warner Bros. Interactive. According to the announcement, LEGO Battles is based on classic play scenarios in themes that include LEGO Castle, LEGO Pirates, and LEGO Space, and pulls three LEGO themes together to create a unique extension of the LEGO build-and-play experience while staying true to the customization and humor we’ve all come to expect from the LEGO game series.

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Guinness World Records Break on Wii, DS

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games (best known for those wonderful LEGO games) are teaming up with Guinness World Records to bring Guinness World Records: The Videogame to Wii and Nintendo DS this fall. Okay… As odd as this game sounds right out of the gate, WBIE makes it sounds like it could be fun. Of course it probably doesn’t hurt that TT Games is developing it..

The game promises to not only let players observe the most interesting world records recorded of all time, but also lets them participate in making them. Players can grow their fingernails, walk across the Grand Canyon on a tightrope, eat a jumbo jet and more as they try to topple the world’s greatest accomplishments. Of course, being successful means that your name will appear in the greatest book of world records - Guinness. The game’s fast-paced action challenges can be played solo, in teams, or in competitive multi-player groups.

Guinness World Records: The Videogame will launch this fall.