The embargo is over and Rock Band information is coming out of the floodgates. I’m quite looking forward to this game, and I’m hoping that the peripheral cost can be kept down. I told my friends, however, that I’ll be refusing to buy a microphone – I don’t want to hear them singing anything.

I hope that as a cost-saving measure, though, that the SingStar PS3 microphones will work with Rock Band, and ditto for the Guitar Hero PS3 and Guitar Hero PS2 guitars.

First off, IGN gives their impressions of playing Rock Band. To sum up, they like what they see, hear, and play.

Also of note is the below-linked article, which goes into more detail about the modes the game will have.

Rock Band Information Overload

[Edit 1: hmm. The above link doesn’t seem to work right now.]

[Edit 2: C&VG also has a good preview of Rock Band.]