Jimi Hendrix: Rock Band out later this year
The ultimate guitar god himself, Jimi Hendrix, will soon be immortalized in video game form when his own Rock Band game comes out later this year.
Billboard.com reports that Hendrix’s sister, Janie, let the information slip in an interview with the L.A. Times that a Rock Band game featuring the music of her brother would be in stores before the end of the year.
“At the time the deal was completed,” the article read. “Sony vowed to make his music ‘available through every type of media’ — including a new edition of ‘Rock Band’ that Janie Hendrix says should appear before the end of this year.”
It looks to be a massive year for Rock Band considering that they’re already planning on releasing Rock Band: Green Day this year as well. Harmonix and MTV Games did not respond to any press requests about this story but it does make sense considering that this is the 40th anniversary of Hendrix’s death.
With a new album, Valleys of Neptune, out this March and an iPod touch bearing his image coming out later this year, it seems that now would be the time for children and adults alike to rock out on plastic guitars to the classic songs of Jimi Hendrix.
UPDATE: Apparently some things are just too good to be true. A bunch of you sent this link from Kotaku.com where it was confirmed by a rep from Harmonix that there will be no Jimi Hendrix version of Rock Band made. Thanks for taking the initiative and doing research on this story and breaking my heart in the end, guys. Really appreciated…dammit.
Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Rock Band
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