Rock Band 4 getting online play soon

Rock Band 4 didn't have the best launch, with poor sales and an attempt at crowdfunding a PC port quickly quashed. But the game isn't quite up yet.

Developers Harmonix have announced that they're working on a number of major updates to the musical mayhem over the coming months, and some of them sound very exciting indeed.

Characters from Battleborn will be turning up in May 2016 (yawn) but a very welcome Practise mode will follow in June. After that we'll see an expansion pack towards the end of the year and some enhancements to the music library.

The marquee feature will be ready before Christmas and will finally add proper online multiplayer. That's been much requested and was a pretty strange thing to leave out, so hopefully it will all be in place and working in time for getting together with friends and family at Christmas.