Harmonix has released the demo for the upcoming Rock Band sequel, Green Day: Rock Band and included is a teaser image that seems to imply that the upcoming game will have keyboard support, an all-new instrument for the popular music game series.
Users can download the two-track demo from the XBL Marketplace and play the songs “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Welcome to Paradise.”
The image shows off the four standard icons, (mic, guitar, bass, drums) with the keyboard fifth.
The original game of the series sold over 5 million tracks, and led to a revolution in DLC (downloadable content), selling over 40 million tracks.
Rock Band 2 continued strong sales for the franchise, although reviews were not as great.
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Result for: 5 million
Sony has announced this weekend that they will be discontinuing all sales of the 3.5-inch floppy disc in Japan starting in 2011, effectively killing off the three decade old disk type.
The company helped pioneer the disk in 1981, introducing the technology that year and then starting to sell the discs in 1983.
At its height in the year 2000, Sony shipped 47 million disks, but that number has progressively fallen, reaching just 8.5 million in 2009. However, that also begs the question, why were so many floppies shipped even in 2009 and who is still using them?
Sony holds 70 percent of the Japanese market share for the disks, compared to around 40 percent globally.
The company cited lack of demand as the main reasoning behind the decision, given the cheap prices of much smaller and higher capacity devices, like USB flash drives.
Result for: 5 million
During the Apple press event today, CEO Steve Jobs says the company has sold 450,000 iPads, a strong figure for only 4 full days of sales.
Users have downloaded 3.5 million iPad apps, and downloaded 600,000 iBooks from the iBookstore.
Jobs also noted that the device is sold out at best Buy, and that the company plans to ramp up supply over the coming months.
The launch of the iPad was one of the biggest in Apple’s history, with 300,000 units sold on the first day at an average price of over $500 USD.
