Along with the announcement came the casual mention that Rock Band will now officially go on sale November 20, rather than November 23 as previously announced. The move takes Rock Band's launch off of Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving pseudo-holiday known as a particularly busy shopping day, and puts it onto the game industry's less exciting but more traditional Tuesday.

The site itself, which will open November 20 as well, will feature personal profile pages and blogs, "band" profile pages and blogs allowing groups of friends in virtual bands to easily keep in touch, solo and band leaderboards, forums, and classified ads for individual rockers looking to join up with like-minded others.