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Analysis: September 2009 Software Sales -- Halo 3: ODST Sells 1.52 Million

Microsoft and Bungie Studios didn't give the release of Halo 3: ODST the same blockbuster treatment as Halo 3, but that didn't stop the Halo faithful from coming out in big numbers for the latest fight against the Covenant. September 2009 sales numbers from the NPD Group report Halo 3: ODST sold 1.52 million copies, with its closest competitor,...

Posted October 19, 2009
Abbey Road, The First Beatles Album On Rock Band, Available On Oct. 20

MTV Games and Harmonix announced this morning that the first full album for The Beatles: Rock Band will be Abbey Road. It will be available for Xbox 360 and Wii on October 20 and PlayStation 3 on October 22. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band will be available in November and Rubber Soul in December The game disc already comes with...

Posted October 19, 2009
10-Song Queen Downloadable Pack Coming To Rock Band On October 20

Finally, Harmonix and MTV Games have released more details on the much-anticipated debut of Queen in Rock Band and Rock Band 2. It's been a long time -- too long -- coming, but on October 20, Freddy Mercury and the guitar-squealing gang will appear in Rock Band in the form of a 10-song downloadable track pack. The song list: "Another...

Posted October 2, 2009
G4tv.com's Feedback -- Week of September 14th, 2009

I was a school boy when I heard my first Beatles song. "Love Me Do" I think it was, and from there it didn't take me long. Got myself a guitar, used to play every night. Now I'm in a rock & roll outfit, and everything's all right. Wait, no...I'm thinking of a Bad Company song. The Beatles: Rock Band is what I was trying to...

Posted September 17, 2009
Beatles: Rock Band Deluxe Pack Selling Quick

If you're planning on buying someone the deluxe Beatles: Rock Band kit with the Ringo Drums and the Paul McCartney bass, you'd better hurry up and get one. According to Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, the bundles are selling out quick, in spite of their fairly exorbitant price. “The special limited edition set that we have priced at $249,...

Posted September 17, 2009
TheFeed's Weekend Playlist: Scribblenauts, Guitar Hero 5 And A Whole Lotta Beatles

This has been a strange week at G4: A lot of TheFeed's crew have been laid out by various nerd-related diseases, and everyone else is traveling, or just listless with post-PAX letdown disorder. We're all using the weekend to recharge our mental and physical batteries, mostly with the help of the Fab Four! Read on to see what your favorite G4...

Posted September 11, 2009
Beatles: Rock Band DLC To Feature Unique Backgrounds

This is the 4,378th reason The Beatles: Rock Band is the most awesome game ever: The game's downloadable tracks will feature unique backgrounds and animations. Later Beatles tracks in the game feature animated "dreamscapes" done in the Beatles' psychedelic style, and each of the DLC tracks that take place in later years will feature...

Posted September 10, 2009
Sessler's Soapbox: Meet The Beatles... Rock Band, That Is!

Watch Larger Version | Watch HD Version Oh rock ‘n’ roll, how we love you so. You have brought us so much joy in the form of groups like The Stones, Kiss, Nirvana and, of course, The Beatles. Yet only one group could stir up so much hoopla in the video game community, and The Beatles: Rock Band is doing just that. Released today...

Posted September 9, 2009
Adam Sessler Talks The Beatles: Rock Band On KROQ Tomorrow

X-Play co-host and our Editor-In-Chief, Mr. Adam Sessler, will be on the Kevin and Bean show on KROQ (106.7FM) here in Los Angeles tomorrow morning at 7:30 PT talking about the release of the heavily-anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band. The newest entry in the Rock Band canon takes you on a journey through the career of the Fab Four, and puts...

Posted September 8, 2009
Nugget From The Net: Guitar Hero: Beatles?

The Beatles: Rock Band launches tomorrow, everyone, and in case you haven't heard: Old people and music snobs are very excited about this fact. Although no one has acknowledged this, you have to figure that Paul McCartney and the rest of the Apple shareholders at least met with Activision to discuss the possibility of a Beatles game. The below...

Posted September 8, 2009
Breakfast With The Beatles Host Chris Carter On The Beatles: Rock Band Revolution

Beatles fans know Chris Carter as the host of Breakfast With The Beatles, the longest running Beatles radio show, which can now be heard nationwide via Little Steven's Underground Garage on Sirius Satellite Radio. Many rock fans know him as the bassist in Dramarama, whose 1985 smash hit "Anything, Anything (I'll Give...

Posted September 4, 2009
Future Rock Bands To Be More Immersive?

Earlier this week, I basically questioned whether music games were dead, and asked what developers could possibly do to "add value" to a genre that, at its core, is a high-tech version of Simon Says. While they didn't say anything specific, Harmonix did address the issue in a recent interview with computer and video games. When asked...

Posted September 3, 2009
Final Beatles: Rock Band Track Revealed?

Well, the track list for the hugely anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band is now complete…perhaps. As Kotaku reports, it seems that someone has managed to secure an early copy of the game, and posted a screenshot revealing that the game’s mysterious 45th track is in fact…”The End” off of Abbey Road. Harmonix...

Posted September 2, 2009
Harmonix Speaks On Musicians That Badmouth Music Games

A lot of popular musicians have spoken out against games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, saying that they rather have kids play "real" instruments. Harmonix's John Drake views these games as a possibly gateway for players to get into playing actual instruments in an interview with CVG he said: "I think they're missing the point....

Posted September 2, 2009
Rock Band Network Songs Aren't Required To Use Every Instrument

Some songs don't need a guitar, bass, drums and vocals, which is why tracks produced for the upcoming Rock Band Network for (what else?) Rock Band won't have that as a requirement, either. Destructoid reports musicians will have no problem publishing songs that would only be playable for, say, vocalists only or exclusively guitar and bass --...

Posted August 31, 2009