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It sounds like a much-needed extra dimension for online play, and should offer a new reason to get back on board with competitive gaming via Rock Band 4, if that's what you're interested in. Rather than playing with friends at the same time, you can team up with other players to create in-game groups called "crews." You and other crews will compete in challenges each week, where victories or failures contribute to the entire group's success as a whole. While regular asynchronous online multiplayer is hitting Rock Band 4 in a free update planned for December, half of Rock Band Rivals is meant to be a "counterpart" to online play. Rock Band Rivals will add two important new chunks of content to Rock Band 4 for $29.99: a story-based career mode and a series-first asynchronous multiplayer mode with both cooperative and competitive options.

Now the cat's out of the bag and Rock Band Rivals sounds a lot like something die-hard fans of the rhythm game series are going to want to get in on. It quickly generated buzz ahead of its October release, but there were scant details as to what the expansion would actually provide. Rock Band Rivals was announced last month during E3 as the first paid expansion for Rock Band 4.