'Rock Band 4' release date: 17 tracks added; game costs double in Australia

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Game company Harmonix has announced 17 songs players can sing and get wild to in the upcoming music video game "Rock Band 4." Performed by various renowned rock icons and artists such as Fall Out Boy, Heart, and White Denim, these new tracks expand the ever growing playlist of the game title. 

The newly added songs are the following:

  • 4 Non Blondes – What's Up?
  • The Black Keys – Fever
  • Disturbed – Prayer
  • Duck & Cover – Knock Em Down
  • Eddie Japan – Albert
  • Fall Out Boy – Centuries
  • Halestorm – I Miss The Misery
  • Heart – Kick It Out
  • Heaven's Basement – I Am Electric
  • Lightning Bolt – Dream Genie
  • Rick Derringer – Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
  • Rush – A Passage To Bangkok
  • Scorpions – No One Like You
  • Slydigs – Light The Fuse
  • Soul Remnants – Dead Black (Heart of Ice)
  • System of a Down – Spiders
  • White Denim – At Night In Dreams

These new songs will be in the same library that has songs from new and classic rock and roll personalities such as Elvis Presley, Aerosmith, Avenged Sevenfold, The Killers, Foo Fighters, and The Who, making the collection for "Rock Band 4" the biggest and most diverse in the franchise yet. 

In other related "Rock Band 4" news, Home Entertainment Services, Mad Catz equipment distributor in Australia, has announced pricing differences between the U.S. and Australia, with the manufacturer doubling the charge for gamers Down Under.

In the US, a copy of "Rock Band 4" costs $59.99 but buyers in Australia will have to shell out $99.95 for it. The "Rock Band 4" Guitar Bundle, which costs $129.99 in the U.S., is priced at $249.95. Lastly, gamers in Australia need $499.95 to get a "Rock Band 4" Band-A-Box Bundle, which includes a guitar, drums and microphone. In the U.S., this costs $249.99. Kotaku Australia says that the stock's origin (Europe instead of U.S.) instigated the bloated price tag.

"Rock Band 4" will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One on Oct. 6. Harmonix promises the game to also be made playable on the Xbox 360 and PS4.