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My Rock Band roots started on the PS3, and slowly migrated over to the Xbox 360, but I still have much love for all of those rockers on the PS3. Sometimes they get neglected when compared to their more omnipresent competitor’s console.

Anyway, so I’ve heard a LOT of the PS3′ers out there grumbling about when they were going to get some Rock Band 2 patch love. It looks like your complaining prayers have been answered! Rock Band 2 Lead Designer Dan Teasdale announced on the forums this morning, as well as on the PlayStation Blog, that a patch for Rock Band 2 will be released soon. It will includes the following enhancements and tweaks:

This update includes:

• “Sort by Stars” in Quickplay: If you hit the “Sort” button on the Song Select screen, you’ll come to a brand new sort that orders songs by the star ratings that you’ve achieved on each song. Each star rating gets a category, as well as an “Unplayed” category for songs that don’t have a star rating recorded. Finally, you can record your progress towards gold starring every song in your library!
• Improved “Sort by Stars” fix: Players will not have to beat a previous high score to record a star rating for their songs. (Not yet included in the Xbox 360 version!)
• Chord HOPO improvements: If you’ve played The Beatles: Rock Band, you’ll notice much more robust handling of chord hammer-ons and pull-offs. This patch implements those changes in Rock Band 2 to provide a more natural chord hammer-on/pull-off experience.
• Velocity Sensitivity on Ion Drum Kits: Ion Drum kits now support velocity sensitivity in both drum fills and Drum Freestyle mode.
• Rock Band Network Store Support: When the Rock Band Network goes live, select songs will be available for PlayStation 3 users through a new storefront available in game. Stay tuned for more information closer to the launch of RBN!
• SingStar Wireless Microphone Support: Rock Band 2 now supports the SingStar Wireless Microphones available through Europe! Finally, you can now have a fully wireless Rock Band experience on PlayStation 3!

One thing to note (and this has been discussed previously here on the site) about the Rock Band Network on the PS3.  This recent announcement mentions “select songs” will be available on the PS3, not every RBN track.  I’m assuming that Harmonix will put up the more popular tracks from the Xbox 360 RBN store onto the PS3 RBN store, but that is pure speculation on my part.

No word yet on when this will go live, but as soon as I find out, I will update here.

UPDATE: According to Mr. Teasdale, Dan if you’re nasty, the patch will go live early tomorrow morning, so if you are picking up some new DLC tomorrow once the PSN is updated, it should ask to download and install the patch.

OK, sound off what you think about this latest announcement!  “About time?” “Better late than never?” “What about the Wii?”   Let’s hear it in the comments!

Wow, they just keep on coming!  I promised earlier that I was going to be giving away a copy of the Beatles: Rock Band for the PS3 once I hit 4,000 followers on Twitter, but I decided to give up on that, and instead would rather brighten someone’s holiday by sending out the prize to the winner before Christmas.  FYI, this is my gently used copy.  I bought this at midnight on release day, played it through once, and then received my Beatles: Rock Band Limited Edition bundle for the 360, so I no longer need this.  The case, manual, and game are still in excellent condition.

So, here’s what you have to do to win:

1. Make sure you’re following @RockBandAide on Twitter.
2. Tweet out the following: “I want to win the Beatles: Rock Band on the PS3 from @RockBandAide today! http://bit.ly/TBRBGiveaway #TBRBGiveaway“  Make sure you include all that in your tweet.  I’ll be selecting the winner using Twitrand.com searching for that exact text string.
3. Come back to this post here and enter a comment posting your Twitter name.
4. Only one entry per person, per prize, please.
5. Unlike previous Twitter contests, anyone is eligible (not just those in the US this time)!  PS3 games I don’t believe are region coded, but I’m not sure how DLC works if you receive this overseas (people who enter outside of the US may want to double check that before entering).  And shipping is at my expense, so if you are overseas and win, don’t expect it overnighted!
6. I will do a random drawing tonight after 8:00 p.m. EST and notify the winners.

That’s it!  Good luck!

Argh… it’s never good to see this.  It appears that many of those with the PAL version of The Beatles: Rock on the PS3 are reporting issues with online gameplay after downloading and installing the Abbey Road DLC.  There is a thread up at the RockBand.com forums here.   Harmonix is aware of the issue and working with Sony to identify and rectify the issue.  If you are being affected, please visit the forum and add your details.

[via Joystiq]

PS3 and Wii owners, listen up.  It looks like some of The Beatles: Rock Band promotional materials state that the Xbox 360 exclusivity of “All You Need is Love” has a finite life. Three months, to be exact.  You can now harbor slightly less animosity towards your Xbox 360 toting brethren, as the soon to be released “All You Need is Love” Beatles: Rock Band track will only be exclusive to that console for a short time.  After 12/9/09, it looks like the song will be available to all three consoles.

[via PlaystationLifestyle.net]