The Official Harmonix Podcast

On a brisk day in late October, almost 3 years ago to the day, Rock Band 3 was released into the wild! It remains the most ambitious RB title we ever released, as well as the highest Metacritic ranked music game of all time (even though we couldn’t remember that while recording). Join us as we swap stories about our favorite RB3 memories, our harrowing convention trips, Jessa’s wedding, and Michael Keaton.

Did you know that one chunk equals $50,000? Tune in to find out how we determined that, based on a letter Steve Albini wrote to Nirvana! We also dive into other current events in the world of Music, Movies, and Games, and have a spirited discussion of dog owner ethics.

For the first time in what seems like months, our entire team has re-assembled for this episode. Get the full rundown of what everyone's been up to for the past month or two, spreading the Harmonix word across the land!

This week's episode was recorded in front of a LIVE studio (panel) audience at PAX Prime 2013. We invited some of our indie game dev friends to join us and talk about their awesome projects coming up! Tune in and hear what Double Fine, Young Horses, Capy Games, and SuperGiant Games are up to!

Back from a whirlwind trip to the Disney D23 convention, and with the bulk of the team still on the road, a skeleton crew sits down to talk D23, karaoke, Aaron Neville, and eating food from strangers.

Trying something new this week, the gang brings a slew of current headlines from music, gaming, and everything in between to discuss. It's like The McLaughlin Group but younger and with more yelling.

The 100th episode is here!! And we neglected to even talk about how it's the 100th episode in the podcast because we are too focused on THE FUTURE! We chat with Harmonix Audio Director Eric Brosius, who is also serving as the Audio Lead for Fantasia: Music Evolved. Tune in for excellent insights into how audio and music are integral to bringing the magic of the game to life.

99 Episodes! Holy moly! The gang celebrates this (almost) momentous occasion by doing the only thing they know how to do: inanely discuss their favorite family restaurants. They also dip into their travel schedule for the rest of the summer, in case you're wondering where you can see us!

With the team back from debuting Fantasia: Music Evolved at E3, they've got a lot of excitement to share with you. Tune in to find out how the show went for Harmonix, and hear about the amazing reactions to our new game!

In case you missed the news, we've announced the next game from Harmonix! Teaming up with Disney, we've created an incredible new game, Fantasia: Music Evolved, for Kinect on the Xbox One and the Xbox 360! We have the game's Creative Director, Matt Boch, and its Project Director, Daniel Sussman, on this episode to talk all things Fantasia: Music Evolved!

Our old friend and Harmonix Community grand-dad, Sean Baptiste, pops in, Mr. McFeely-style, to hang out with us and chat! Sean's now at Fire Hose Games, and has a ton to tell us about their new iPad game, Go Home Dinosaurs. Sean's also a great advocate for the indie game community, so we discuss that at length. Great discussions with the greatest dude.

On the show this week is Mr. Dan Ryckert. Dan's a writer for GameInformer Magazine and author of the soon-to-be bestselling Air Force Gator> book series. Dan joins us for discussion of his new book and the buzz surrounding this year's E3 convention.

Our dear friend Dave Lang, the head of Iron Galaxy Studios, has a new game coming out called Dive Kick. Because he was nice enough to set us up with a pre-release build of the game, and a couple custom controllers, we felt we had to invite him on our show. In actuality, Dave is an awesome guy with a colorful career in gaming, so we knew he'd have lots of great stories to share!

A whole lot of discussion of unappealing food on this podcast. We need to remember not to record these when we’re hungry. But tune in while we discuss your least favorite snacks, as well as recap the news of the last couple weeks!

The team is back from a busy week working at PAX East, so we thought we'd run down everything we've been up to lately! Also, somebody let Jessa into the Pop Rocks Vault, so if you think you're hearing audio interference in this episode, it's just her mouth.