Chart-climbing rock group
Rise Against is calling on all Xbox gamers to challenge them as part of the latest
Xbox Live “Game with Fame” on
June 3, 2005.
Xbox Live players can look for the gamertag
riseagainstgwf from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. CDT / 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. EDT to test their skills against the band in Midway’s
Mortal Kombat: Deception.
The band’s debut album under the
DreamWorks label, Siren Song of the
Counter-Culture, has held a firm place in the Billboard Top-20 for New Artists since its arrival on store shelves in August 2004. Rise Against will do ‘kombat’ with gamers from their hometown of Chicago, Ill., where the band will perform at
YMCA Field on
June 4 as part of the
Q101 Block Party powered by
Xbox.
For more information on Siren Song of the Counter-Culture or Rise Against tour dates, please visit:
http://www.riseagainst.com.
Xbox Live's “Game with Fame” program gives Xbox Live subscribers the unique opportunity to play against some of today's hottest stars. Past “Game with Fame” celebrity players include
The Strokes,
Hoobastank,
Three Doors Down,
Incubus and
Buffalo Bills' Running Back
Willis McGahee. For further information on other
Xbox Live events, be sure to visit the “Game with Fame” Web site at
http://www.xbox.com/gamewithfame.
