http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/the beatles http://kotaku.com/tag/the beatles Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney tells the Express (or was it Zeit?) that he's making music for an unnamed video game: "A new computer game sells so much better than a new CD these days. Young people will hear my music for the first time in a game." More »
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Ringo Starr might be "absolutely crap" at Rock Band, but that isn't going to stop him from trademarking the crap out of his name, Ringo. Rather, Ringo™. More »
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You might not be ready to rock, but the E3 gaming expo is ready to rock you. More »
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As seen on I Heart Chaos NSFW. More »
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Harmonix is kicking off today a series of eBay charity auctions for Xbox 360s painted with an illustration from the amazing introduction to The Beatles: Rock Band. More »
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Kotaku has learned (again) that there isn't a SingStar for the Beatles, but you will be able to play the next Beatles game — the one we knew about — like SingStar. Maybe with special mics, even. More »
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What are those people doing in that brick building in Massachusetts? They're ensuring that the virtual Beatles look like the real Beatles. More »
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The list of officially confirmed songs for The Beatles: Rock band grows to twenty-five this morning, as today's trailer reveals are joined by seven more tracks by way of official EA decree. More »
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What differentiates The Beatles: Rock Band from Rock Band games that have come before it? Harmonix and MTV Games are releasing more than an artist track pack, with this standalone Rock Band akin more to a playable band biography. More »
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Harmonix and MTV Games have this afternoon released a new gameplay trailer for The Beatles: Rock Band, along with information on a further eight tracks that will be included in the game. More »
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Michael Jackson has passed away, and lawyers are currently picking through his estate. Jackson owned 267 Beatles songs, the ownership of which is at risk. More »
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While the band broke up decades ago, and half of them are now dead, the remaining Beatles weren't just going to sit by and watch somebody else make a game based on their career. So they helped. More »
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The Beatles: Rock Band has been playable at E3 this week. So, being fans of both The Beatles and Rock Band, we figured we'd go check it out. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5276785&view=rss&microfeed=true .html I may not be the biggest Beatles fan, but it was hard to deny the appeal of the first trailer for The Beatles: Rock Band. It looks fab. More »
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As seen on The Beatles Rock Band web site More »
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The release of The Beatles: Rock Band is going to be a "big deal." We know. But it's going to be a bigger deal than we'd expected. More »
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MTV Games rhythm game based on The Beatles will feature more than just the Fab Four's number ones and B-sides. The Beatles: Rock Band is getting "never been heard, never been released" content too. More »
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From the early days in Liverpool to psychedelia of Magical Mystery Tour and beyond, the Harmonix-developed Beatles game will let feature the band's different periods. More »
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How excited is John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono for the recently announced video game based on The Beatles? "Very excited." Ono tells Entertainment Weekly that she, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison's widow Olivia "are actually pretty hip," which made the agreement to license the band's likeness to MTV Games and Harmonix possible. More »
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Activision boss Bobby "What, Me Worry?" Kotick has a well-established routine for dealing with record labels. When it comes to Guitar Hero, they take their small cut of the profits, they get their songs on the game, they go quietly into the night. Helps Activision make a ton of money from the games, but it also looks like it cost them a deal to get the Beatles on Guitar Hero. Speaking with Reuters about said deal, Sony/ATV CEO Martin Bandier has said Activision's hard-ball stance with record labels was the driving force behind MTV scoring The Beatles catalogue: More »
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So Variety reported that the terms of the deal between Apple Corps and MTV gives Harmonix access to 45 songs from the albums spanning 1962 to 1969 — the prime cut of the Beatles' catalog — for a Beatles music game. That tidbit's useful information, because knowing the maximum size of the set list helps in guessing what will make it into the game. Team Teabag just took a swing at it, looking at the 45 most popular songs for The Beatles in that timespan. IT IS NOT AN OFFICIAL SET LIST, LEAKED OR OTHERWISE. It's just a good guess at what we might see in a Fab Four game. More »
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Yesterday's surprise announcement that the deal inked between MTV and The Apple Corps. wouldn’t result in a Beatles Rock Band title, but rather an entirely new music franchise left a lot of us scratching our heads. More »
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Signing the Beatles (or at least the people handling their song rights) to a music game can't have been easy for MTV. And it definitely can't have been cheap. While not disclosing just how much MTV paid them for the rights to the Fab Four's tunes, Martin Bandier - who is CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing - has said: More »
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During a teleconference being held by Apple Corps, Ltd and MTV this morning, the two companies, along with Harmonix, announced an exclusive partnership to create a brand new video game featuring the music of the Beatles. This seems to be a new game that will allow friends and families to experience the music of the band in an all new way. More »
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The Beatles in my Rock Band ? Believe. Confirming that confirming email, MTV's Rock Band has licensed The Beatles' music reports The Wall Street Journal. This deal, set to be announced later today, is all the more remarkable considering how The Beatles have not allowed its music to be licensed to Apple's iTunes. More »
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I just had an alert drop in my mailbox from MTV. Apparently MTV Networks, owners of Harmonix, and Apple Corps Ltd, administrators of The Beatles releases of the 1960s, are holding a press conference tomorrow to make some announcement about an "exclusive agreement to develop a global music project." The release lists a number of media contacts, including one of the main PR folks for Rock Band 2. This seems to back up what the Financial Times reported back in June. Though at the time it sounded like both Activision and Harmonix were wooing Apple Corps. Did Guitar Hero get the shaft or is another announcement, this one with Activision, hitting later this week? We'll update once we can needle out more official word. More »
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I read a pitch for the entirely hypothetical (?) Guitar Hero: The Beatles today. Can you guess who wrote it? More »
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Okay, so I'm a fan Mia Farrow's movies, and her making a Second Life appearance is seriously cool. Originally, she was slated to appeared in world to discuss the Darfur crisis in Sundan last month, but her talk has been reschedule due a real world fire at Lichtenstein Creative Media, which is helping with the event. New date is January 9th. Brian Ashcraft More »
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