Rock Band

[Ghoulish Delight]

Rock Band is developed by a company called Harmonix, which developed Guitar Hero 1 & 2. Activision bought the company Red Octane which developed the Hardware for Guitar Hero, and MTV bought Harmonix. So they no longer work together and Harmonix did not develop Guitar Hero 3.

At this point, both sides are kinda pointing fingers at each other as to whose fault it is that the Les Paul PS3 controller doesn't work, but Harmonix has developed a patch that would fix it, but Activision is blocking the release of the patch. ( wiki info )

Full Disclosure: I'm a little quick to defend Harmonix as my college roommate is a developer there.

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Full Disclosure: I'm a little quick to defend Harmonix as my college roommate is a developer there.

I'd defend Activision but I used to work there

[Peachy Keen]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Rock Band is developed by a company called Harmonix, which developed Guitar Hero 1 & 2. Activision bought the company Red Octane which developed the Hardware for Guitar Hero, and MTV bought Harmonix. So they no longer work together and Harmonix did not develop Guitar Hero 3.

Both of which where blatantly stolen from Konami's Guitar Freak. I have been familiar with Red Octane long before the big GH craze. They were an online retailer who sold Dance Dance Revolution games and 3rd party dance mats. They also published In the Groove, a ripoff of DDR. Red Octane are pretty much thieves.
But anyway...
PS, I'd defend Harmonix too, Activision should make a guitar you can buy separately or stfu. just sayin'