Watch Rock Band 4 bring out your inner rock star

I had a chance to get a preview of the upcoming Rock Band 4 video game from Harmonix at an E3 preview event. But more important, as you can see in the video below, And I saw some people perform with the new music rhythm game who were really into it.

This Rock Band, back after a three-year layoff, has new guitars and drums being made by Mad Catz, and you’ll be able to run it on your PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PS3, and PS3. (Not your PC). It’s coming in late 2015, and it will go head-to-head with Activision’s new Guitar Hero Live. The question is whether it will be different enough to prompt a revival of the genre, which collapsed from oversaturation a few years ago. Publishers turned to dance games and instructional guitar titles as alternatives while the hankering for faux guitars slowly came back.

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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.