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It has been announced today that MTV Games and Harmonix will be bringing The Foo Fighters’ best selling album, The Colour and the Shape, to Rock Band in what will become the 7th complete downloadable album available on the Rock Band Music Store.

The album has apparently sold 2 million copies in the US alone and features songs such as ‘Monkey Wrench,’ ‘Hero’ and ‘Everlong.’ The downloadable album, meanwhile, will be available on November 11th on Xbox 360 for 1600 MS Points and November 13th on PlayStation 3 for $19.99, with individual songs going for 160 MS Points or $1.99 respectively.

The full album listing follows below:

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MTV, Harmonix and Apple Corps (The Beatles rights-holder) announced during a conference call yesterday (today?) that a brand new music game featuring the music of the Beatles is in the works. MTV music, films and logo group president, Van Toffler said:

“Today we’re announcing an exclusive partnership with Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix to create a brand-new video game featuring the iconic music of The Beatles. We’re not in the business of producing standalone games for every artist that’s out there… but [for] a monumental band like The Beatles, it’s the perfect confluence.”

Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones added some further significance to the announcement, commenting that this would be the first time music from The Beatles has ever been signed for an appearance in a video game, continuing by saying, “In MTV and Harmonix, we see partners that admire The Beatles and Apple’s original spirit and vision.”

The game is only due out next Christmas and will be a completely new product, not to be viewed as an expansion to Rock Band, but as its own game not confined to the Rock Band franchise, as Harmonix’s Alex Rigopoulos enthused:

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Harmonix, MTV Games and EA have announced plans to release Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 for the Wii and PS2. The Track Pack will feature 20 tracks from 20 different artists and will be available on the 15th of July for $29.99.

Up until now only owners of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Rock Band have been able to download content for the game. Now the PS2 version and the Wii version (which will be available from the 22nd of June) will also feature downloadable content, just that it will be available on a disc rather than as traditional DLC.

Track Pack Volume 1 includes songs by All American Rejects, 30 Seconds to Mars and Weezer and more. The full track listing is below:

• 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
• All American Rejects - Move Along
• Blink – 182 All the Small Things
• Boston - More Than a Feeling
• David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
• Faith No More - We Care A Lot
• Grateful Dead - Truckin’
• The Hives - Die, All Right!
• KISS - Calling Dr. Love
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme’ Three Steps
• Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs
• Oasis - Live Forever
• Paramore - Crushcrushcrush
• The Police - Synchronicity II
• Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister
• Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy
• Smashing Pumpkins - Siva
• Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
• Weezer - Buddy Holly
• Wolfmother - Joker & the Thief