Dropmix comes with its own music board, cards, and an app.
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Harmonix and Hasbro show off Dropmix electronic music party game

When Hasbro and Harmonix Music Systems  described their electronic music game Dropmix in a press release, I have to admit I didn’t get it. And when I watched someone play it for the first time, I was a little lost as well.

But after a hands-on gameplay session at a preview event, I finally started to grasp what was going on. And I must admit it has some clever and unexpected gameplay, with the final result being a a mix of crazy sounds that amount to original music when you put them all together.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.