The next title from Harmonix won't be anything similar to what we know the music-focused studio for. It's not another spin on Rock Band or anything else resembling note-matching perfection. It's not even really a video game. It's a physical card game that's pushed along with the help of an app on a tablet or smart phone.
DropMix has just been announced but it's not a true Harmonix joint. This effort is a collaboration between Harmonix and Hasbro -- the former taking responsibility for doing all the cool music stuff, and the latter tasked with creating the physical product that makes it all go. The partnership makes sense when you consider each's relative strength.
Here's how it works: Each card has an NFC chip in it that contains a part from a song. So one card might just have the bass line to Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" or the "Ooh-wa-ah-ah-ahh" vocals to Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" (this was a card I played as often as possible). The DropMix board has five slots for the five different card types. Players take turns dropping their cards and the game remixes them over the top of one another on the fly.
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