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Anniversary: Dig Out The Plastic And Reform The Band – Rock Band 3 Turns 10 Today

Let there be Rock (Band).

Time continues to tick on mercilessly and brings with it wave after wave of video game anniversaries designed (we’re certain) to make us feel older than our years. Majora’s Mask launched in North America two decades ago this very day — how can that be?

Another game celebrating a significant birthday today is Rock Band 3. The impressive culmination of Harmonix’s rhythm-based band simulator learnings to that point launched exactly a decade ago today, just on the tail end of the plastic instrument craze. The game added a MIDI keyboard to the classic line up of guitar, bass, drums and microphone, and offered arguably the closest feeling to performing in a real band for people who would otherwise never experience that thrill.

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