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MTV Edging Out Of Peripheral Making

Buried in the middle of a Los Angeles Times article on The Beatles: Rock Band's chances of saving the quickly dwindling music game genre for MTV/Viacom is some troubling news for fans of Rock Band's guitar and drum peripherals: MTV Games is edging away from the manufacture and sale of fake plastic instruments. The Rock Band instruments have...

Posted August 31, 2009
Analyst: The Beatles: Rock Band Will Sell Half Of Guitar Hero 5

The once booming genre of music games is in a bit of a slump lately. Through July, U.S. sales of music and rhythm games have declined 46 percent this year to $452 million, after a huge boom between 2005 to 2008. “The genre has peaked,” Jesse Divnich, an analyst with Electronic Entertainment Design & Research, said in an...

Posted August 27, 2009
Music Game News And Cataloging Site Plastic Axe Launches

If you eat, breathe, and inappropriately dream about music games, then let your web browser’s bookmarking function know you’ll be stopping by in a few seconds. See, veteran video games writer, musician and G4tv.com contributor Joe Rybicki recently launched Plastic Axe, a passion project of his, designed specifically for the millions...

Posted August 25, 2009
Sessler's Soapbox: PS3 Goes Slim!

Now that the much rumored PS3 slim has been officially revealed, along with an all around price drop, people are wondering how this new console model will effect Sony's bottom line as well as the gaming industry. Such is the topic of this week's Soapbox. Adam takes some time out of his day to speculate about how he thinks the public will react...

Posted August 19, 2009
More Beatles DLC Albums Confirmed, Queen And Others Coming To Rock Band

You'll have plenty of reasons to turn on The Beatles: Rock Band after exhausting the 45 songs on the disc. MTV Games and Harmonix have confirmed previous reports about downloadable albums scheduled to be released in support of The Beatles: Rock Band as part of its GamesCon 2009 announcements. Abbey Road drops in October, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...

Posted August 19, 2009
Singstar Beatles: Fake

Yesterday our own Jake Gaskill reported tentatively and cautiously that there was a rumor that a SingStar Beatles game is on the way. According to MTV and Harmonix, there isn't. If you want to single Beatles songs, you'll have to either keep it in the shower, or turn off the guitars in Beatles: Rock Band. MTV's statement: "MTV Games and...

Posted August 19, 2009
Electronic Arts Releasing Beatles: Rock Band SingStar Port?

Early today, EA officially revealed another 19 tracks that will be included in Beatles: Rock Band. And now, rumor has it that Beatles lovers out there looking to experience the virtual Fab Four, sans instruments, also have something to be excited about today. MCVUK reports that EA will be releasing SingStar: Beatles “within days”...

Posted August 18, 2009
Nearly Entire The Beatles: Rock Band Song Setlist Confirmed

Rumors are rumors no more. Timed to the kicking off of Gamescom in Germany, MTV Games and Harmonix have officially confirmed nearly the entire setlist for The Beatles: Rock Band. All told, 44 of the 45 tracks from the fab four are now public knowledge, with the final track remaining a secret for some reason. With the game's release not far...

Posted August 18, 2009
Inside The Beatles: Rock Band's Story Mode

Watch Larger Version | Watch HD Version Perhaps you might have heard by now that The Beatles have a video game coming out, and no, it's not a licensed side-scrolling platformer based on Help! I got some hands-on preview time with The Beatles: Rock Band a while back (make that drums-on), and X-Play's Blair Herter was kind enough to interview...

Posted August 17, 2009
Rumor: Full Track List Of Beatles Rock Band Revealed

According to rumors, the next issue of Game Informer magazine contains the entire, 45-song setlist for The Beatles: Rock Band. I haven't seen the article, so I'm relying on a source that reported to Joystiq, so take this all with a grain of salt, but enjoy the list. It's under the cut: Read More?

Posted August 14, 2009
Sergeant Pepper and Rubber Soul To Be Beatles: Rock Band DLC

Buried in the middle of a nearly 9,000 world article in the New York Times is the revelation that seminal Beatles albums Rubber Soul and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will join Abbey Road as downloadable content for The Beatles: Rock Band game set to be released on September 9th. The albums will be available some time after the...

Posted August 12, 2009
Harmonix Reveals 15 New Beatles: Rock Band Tracks

Watch Larger Version | Watch HD Version Updated: New Trailer Harmonix today revealed fifteen new tracks for upcoming music game The Beatles: Rock Band, as well as the venues where the tunes will be played. When this game comes out, I'm going to take a 6-month hiatus from all activity but playing The Beatles: Rock Band. Seriously, check...

Posted July 21, 2009
The Beatles: Rock Band's Vocal Trainer Gives the Tone-Deaf Hope

You’ve probably read the news regarding The Beatles: Rock Band’s fifteen newly announced tracks. If you’re a Beatles fan, odds are you’re pretty excited. If you’re passively knowledgeable about them (like me!), then you might need some sound samples to jog your memory. That’s how I felt a little over a week...

Posted July 21, 2009
Jackson's Death Will Not Affect The Beatles: Rock Band

Everybody, I have some very sad news: Pop star Michael Jackson has died. I'll let you collect yourself for a bit while the news sinks in... Don't worry about The Beatles: Rock Band, though; your precious video game will be fine. Jackson's death will not affect The Beatles: Rock Band, except, presumably, there will be one less player. Jackson...

Posted July 9, 2009
Jimmy Page And Jack White Don't Like Guitar Hero

It's interesting to find out how rockers feel about music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Yeah, they're just games, and we just have fun with them, but it must be surreal to have your art, job and craft appear in a video game. If you've poured your life-blood and passion into a musical composition, it must be really, really weird to have...

Posted June 23, 2009