Green Day, Harmonix, MTV Games and Reprise / Warner Bros. Records (phew) has announced that the group’s standalone videogame collaboration, Green Day: Rock Band, is set to release on June 8th for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, with pricing structures announced for each platform.

Green Day: Rock Band aims to allow players access to the full ‘Green Day experience,’ as you “step onto the stage and into the shoes of Green Day, the multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning band that jump-started the punk-pop revival and has continued to pave the way for American rock music into the 21st century.”

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EA and its team (Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix) have announced that Beatles fans will be able to purchase the popular track ‘All You Need is Love’ very soon. In fact Wii owners will be able to download the song on the 16th of February while PS3 gamers will have to wait a little longer, the 4th of March, to get their hands on the catchy ditty.

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Worldwide sales of Harmonix and MTV Games’ The Beatles: Rock Band has passed the 1.7 million mark, according to a report over at the LA Times, after what seems like an incredibly slow start for what was billed as a blockbuster in the music game genre.

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PlayStation 3 and PSP users are being treated to a wealth of new content on the US and European PlayStation Stores this week, the highlights of which are easily the availability of the original Metal Gear Solid (in both regions) and Critter Crunch (finally) arriving on the European storefront.

There’s also Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines available as a downloadable PSP game, new Beatles: Rock Band content (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), new content for Guitar Hero 5, and an absolute ton of interesting videos, special price offers, and downloadable games.

Browse through the full list of content available now on both the European and US PlayStation Stores below (now including content for the PSP and PSPgo):

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All you Beatles: Rock Band fans out there had better take note: songs from the band’s legendary Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album are now available on Xbox LIVE and Wii, a trailer for which you can watch below.

With songs from the album, such as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “With A Little Help From My Friends,” “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” “Getting Better,” and “Good Morning Good Morning” already included in The Beatles: Rock Band, you’re now able to complete the album collection by buying and downloading the following songs for 160 MS Points on Xbox 360, or 200 Wii Points on Wii:

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In El33tonline’s Podcast for October we discuss what games the team have been playing over the past few weeks. We chat about Borderlands, Uncharted 2, WET, Tales of Monkey Island, The Beatles: Rock Band, Critter Crunch and Batman: Arkham Asylum to name a few.

Head on over to the download page to get the El33tonline October Gaming Podcast. You can also subscribe to the El33tonline podcast over here.

By now we’re all getting a bit fatigued with the constant release of new games in the plastic-instrument genre, and Harmonix once promised to make Rock Band a platform updated by downloadable content instead of an annual release with almost no changes. But then they somehow snagged The Beatles license and had the opportunity to release a Beatles Rock Band game at the same time as all the Beatles’ back catalog was being released in remastered CD format around the world (to very good sales), and it seems they couldn’t pass it up, not only because of the commercial opportunity but because the people at Harmonix really love the Beatles – you can tell when you play the game.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of The Beatles: Rock Band.

MTV Games and Harmonix have announced that the first downloadable album for The Beatles: Rock Band, Abbey Road, will be available today for the Xbox 360, and on Thursday for the PlayStation 3, while individual tracks will also be available for the Wii today.

This downloadable album now completes the set of Abbey Road songs already available on The Beatles: Rock Band, such as ‘Come Together’ and ‘The End,’ now accompanied by classic tracks such as ‘Mean Mr. Mustard’ and ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.’

Head on down below to check out the full list of songs and prices for the Abbey Road downloadable album, available today on Xbox 360 for The Beatles: Rock Band:

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With the release of The Beatles: Rock Band a little under two weeks ago, Harmonix and MTV Games put out a downloadable track for owners of the Xbox 360 version of the game to buy, with proceeds going to the Doctors Without Borders organisation. The track in question? ‘All You Need is Love.’

This track has now gone on to become the fastest-selling Rock Band track ever, after only two days on offer, managing to raise tens of thousands of dollars for Doctors Without Borders.

Additionally, the auctioning of a limited edition The Beatles: Rock Band Xbox 360 console raised a whopping $17 300 - this money will enable Doctors Without Borders to “purchase the equipment needed to carry out 86,500 immunizations using auto-disposable syringes, or purchase enough emergency kits composed of drugs and medical supplies to meet the basic needs of more than 2,800 people for 15 days in the aftermath of a disaster.”

President of the board of directors of Doctors Without Borders, Dr. Matt Spitzer commented:

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In an extremely surprising move, Guitar Hero 5 in its debut week on sale has denied The Beatles: Rock Band the opportunity to take the No. 1 spot on Chart Track’s All Formats Software Sales Chart for the UK, by claiming the position for itself.

This is the first time a Guitar Hero game has reached the top spot in its first week on sale.

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The Major has just revealed that the Xbox LIVE exclusive downloadable track for The Beatles: Rock Band, All You Need Is Love, is now available to buy and download for the sum of 160 MS Points.

Proceeds from the sale of this track go to the Doctors Without Borders organisation, so your valuable Space Bucks are going to a good cause!

Additionally, if you’re a resident of the United States, downloading the track automatically gains you entry to the “The Beatles: Rock Band Download and Win” sweepstakes:

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As though we didn’t already know, Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix have taken the liberty to announce that The Beatles: Rock Band will be releasing tomorrow, September 9th, on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other territories, allowing fans of the super group to relive some of the moments from the legendary band’s career, as well as unlock trivia and rare archival materials, including videos, photos and audio recordings.

Accompanying the ‘announcement’ is the full track list reveal. Previously, we knew about 44 of the 45 tracks to be included in the game, but now the final, 45th song has been confirmed to be ‘The End.’ Additionally, “All You Need is Love” will be released tomorrow exclusively through Xbox LIVE for a limited time, with proceeds resulting from the purchase of the song going to Doctors Without Borders organisation.

You can run down the full list of songs available in The Beatles: Rock Band, as well as where they were originally played and when, while perusing the final pricing structure and bundles available, below:

MTV Games and Harmonix have revealed 19 more of the 45 on-disc tracks for The Beatles: Rock Band. The new songs include hits such as ‘A Hard Day’s Night,’ ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ and ‘Ticket to Ride.’

We now know 44 of the tracks which will be included in the game, with just one song left to be announced before the game is available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii on the 9th of September.

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Unfortunately, the next epic RPG from genre-masters Bioware, Dragon Age: Origins, has been delayed from its original release of late October.

Fortunately, the delay isn’t too bad, moving from its anticipated release date of October 23rd, to November 3rd in North America and November 6th in Europe, on Xbox 360 and PC.

A PS3 release date is still to be confirmed for the regions, but is said to be following later in November.

No reason for the delay was announced, but it could have something to do with publisher EA’s intention to spread their own releases out a little better, with The Beatles: Rock Band releasing in September, Brütal Legend releasing in October and now, Dragon Age: Origins filling in the November slot.

Although the Guitar Hero franchise has been in South Africa for quite some time, the Rock Band one has been conspicuously absent from the shelves. This looks set to change with confirmation coming from Kalahari.net that Rock Band will finally be distributed in South Africa with the upcoming rhythm game The Beatles: Rock Band headed to SA shores.

The first glimmer of hope for Rock Band fans emerged earlier in the week when Kalahari Games’ twitter asked gamers who would buy The Beatles edition of Rock Band because the company was providing forecasts to EA. Since then Kalahari Games has confirmed that The Beatles: Rock Band bundle will be available for R2499 while the standalone game for The Beatles: Rock Band and Rock Band 2 will cost you R599.

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