Harmonix has passed on word that their stand-alone drum set will be shipping to retailers in North America today. If you’re north of America, however, you’ll have to wait a couple extra weeks ...

My drum set has three cymbals on it – I don’t know how many drum sets you’ve seen with two cymbals on them; I guess that’s a question for other people." Ouch.

Since then, interest in music-based gaming has worn off considerably, but Harmonix believes that it still has a special appeal to a certain core set of gamers as well as the PS2 early adopters.