With the new year upon us we were totally ready to go silently into the holiday break with visions of high scores, achievements and trophies dancing in our heads. Instead, we’ll usher in 2010 with the volume cranked to the max and the guitars screaming! IGN and BoingBoing.net are going to make sure of it!
We are proud to announce that Rock Band Unplugged (PSP) has been awarded IGN’s “2009 Best PSP Music Game” award. Our game also came in 7th on “The BoingBoing 20” list which is BoingBoing.net’s top 20 picks of handheld and console games for 2009. Read the IGN article here and the BoingBoing.net article here. The accolades don’t stop there! Another one of our games, LEGO Rock Band (DS) was nominated by IGN for their “2009 Best DS Music Game” award. Read the IGN article here.
The praise from these awards and all our fans only makes this holiday season even more rocktastic! Thanks so much for a great 2009 and get ready for an even better 2010! Happy holidays!
LEGO Rock Band DS, developed by Backbone Entertainment in partnership with TT Games and Harmonix, received a glowing review and scored a rare 8.4 on IGN.com. We couldn’t have said it better than IGN, who remarked “… with LEGO Rock Band the rhythm design has finally strutted onto the dual screen system. And it is good. Very good. In fact, it's the best version of LEGO Rock Band, thanks to Backbone Entertainment”.LEGO Rock Band, which includes 25 hit songs, was released on November 3, 2009 in the USA and is scheduled for release in Europe and Australia towards the end of November. Pick it up wherever great games are sold!
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In partnership with Harmonix, Backbone Entertainment brings the fun and excitement of Rock Band to the handheld (no tiny instruments required). Now you can play over 40 hit songs all on your PSP. As a first for the PSP, download new song releases online and keep on rocking till the sun comes up. Don’t have a PSP yet? No problem! Sony has the answer with a bundled PSP including Rock Band Unplugged, School of Rock, and a 4-gig memory stick. Now there’s no excuse for being bored when away from home. Grab a PSP and Rock Band Unplugged and take your band on the road.
Inspired by the upcoming summer blockbuster, G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra for the Nintendo DS takes players on an action-packed world tour featuring vehicle, ground, and even hand-to-hand combat! Players control up to 6 Joes in the single player campaign to stop Cobra Commander or slug it out with an additional 5 playable Cobra characters in 4-player Team Battle, Defend the Base, and other competitive play modes.G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra was released on Tuesday, August 4th!
Experience exciting turn-based strategy in this re-imagining of the game that started the genre! Enjoy an unprecedented amount of content with over 20 squad types, a full single-player campaign, and local multiplayer for up to four players! Then take your game online and battle across 10 competitive multiplayer maps for top spot on the leaderboards while utilizing the powerful Commander Squad, which can be tailored to your personal play-style using 10 unique Vehicle Upgrades and 10 tactical Support Abilities!Military Madness: Nectaris is now available on PSN and XBLA, and soon to be released on WiiWARE!
As a celebration of Space Invaders' 30th anniversary, Backbone has partnered with Taito to bring Space Invaders Extreme exclusively to XBLA! The game features pixel-perfect HD graphics, four multiplayer modes for both online and offline play, and dynamic visualizers created by Jeff Minter.








