Madcatz double dippin in the industry now. They are the Rock Band publishers now!

[Vandole]

Rock Band 3 Has A New Publisher—Mad Catz!

Harmonix's rock solid 2010 rock 'n' roll game Rock Band 3 will be re-released later this year under the guidance of a new publisher, Mad Catz. That's right. The people who make Rock Band guitar and keyboard controllers are now publishing the game.

Mad Catz, better known for its joysticks, gamepads and expensive flight sim gear, recently announced its intentions to start developing and publishing games. It's snapping up publishing rights to Rock Band 3 for "this holiday season and beyond," taking over where defunct publisher MTV Games left off.

Publisher Mad Catz says it will bundle Rock Band 3 software with its Rock Band 3 wireless keyboard controller, Wireless Fender Stratocaster guitar controller and Wireless Fender Mustang PRO guitar controller for the re-release.

http://kotaku.com/5829649/rock-band-...sher++mad-catz


inb4 madcatz makes so much money they buy street fighter and publish that too. regardless this is some pretty neat news.

[Callisto]

fuck this, they need to start publishing FGs and selling SE sticks for $30

[Vandole]

they already sell SE sticks for $40.. and they are a waste of money

[Callisto]

GameStop already sells them for $40*

nowhere else does and GS doesn't sell them online, and for $60 on top of it you can get the same parts as what goes into a TE

[Correction]

Well they certainly couldn't do a worse job making the peripherals than harmonix did. But I thought that by now anyone who played the RB games had long since sold/thrown out/permanently stored the peripherals they used to play music games.

[Kaisha]

Any idea if MadCatz has to put up with all the licensing costs involved of all existing RBN music?

Harmonix only got bought recently by some other company, am curious why they're letting MadCatz handle the re-publishing for RB3, unless that company is incapable of doing so themselves.