Are you ready for a Frankenstein product?  Well, last month there were reports of a Beatles Singstar making it’s way to the PS3.  Since then we’ve learned those were just rumors (or rumours for you UK fans ).  So we were given SingStar: Queen instead.  Good game, just hard to match the talents of Freddy Mercury.  Until Now!  The Beatles Rock Band by MTV Games and Harmonix  is coming via SingStar and the image above proves it.  Packaged within the bundles includes 2 wired mics and a copy of The Beatles Rock Band all with the SingStar logo ontop.

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MTV Games and Harmonix today announced 15 new tracks that will be featured in The Beatles: Rock Band, which is set to be released on 9.9.09.  With the 10 tracks that were revealed during E3 2009, that makes the total of tracks revealed to 25.  Now, without further ado, here are the tracks that were recently revealed with the venue they’ll be featured in:

·         Twist And Shout / Cavern Club
·         Do You Want To Know A Secret / Cavern Club
·         Can’t Buy Me Love / Ed Sullivan Theater
·         I Wanna Be Your Man / Ed Sullivan Theater
·         Eight Days A Week / Shea Stadium
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Harmonix is a developer that has been working on music games since the early 2000s.  Titles like Frequency and Amplitude weren’t as widely known as most other PS2 titles, but they paved the way for Harmonix’s more successful later titles which include the original Guitar Hero I & II, Rock Band, and their upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band.

Rock Band Unplugged is Harmonix’s fray into the handheld gaming market.  The art style, graphics, and tunes are reminiscent of a full fledged Rock Band game, but the concern of most gamers were how the controls would work on the PSP.  Do music-based games only succeed if you have a plastic guitar in your hand, or could they possibly work with a more traditional control scheme?

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From the developers who brought you, Lego Star Wars I & II, Lego Batman and Lego Indiana Jones comes this new well built LEGO Rock Band!  TT Games will mix in one of the best-selling franchise game with an already successful rhythm based music game to build LEGO Rock Band.  The game will be on nearly every platform; Wii, PS3, X360, and DSi.

You’ll be able to customize your “rocker” as you tour the globe in LEGO fashion rocking out to some tracks along the way.  Players will be able to create their own LEGO Rock Band style as they customize their minifigure avatars, band and entourage, including roadies, managers and crew. LEGO Rock Band will support Rock Band and Guitar Hero instruments.

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Right when you think “Beatles coming to Rock Band” is a great idea for all the hippy soccer moms, news breaks out that harmonizing within the game may be possible.  In May’s issue of Game Informer, a rumor suggesting that multiple microphones will be used to sing along with the Fab Four.  This opens the game to a whole new level.  Especially for those who prefer belting out a tune, when clearly they should be belted.

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When we found out this past February that Rock Band was making it’s way to the PSP, I was excited because now I could finally rock out with my **** out in public without ending up in jail for public indecency! It looks like I’m one step closer to that dream now that we’ve got a release date for Rock Band Unplugged. If you’re like me and have been dying to take your show on the road, then make sure to mark June 9th as Rock Band Unplugged Liberation Day!

Rock Band Unplugged will have a total of 40 songs, 9 of which will be exclusive to the game before being offered as DLC to its respective console counterparts. Rock Band Unplugged will also include a full in-game store where players can download even more tasty tracks.

The thing that gets me most excited about Rock Band Unplugged is it looks like the gameplay will be similar to the PS2 classic, Frequency. I spent many a night playing Garbage’s Cherry Lips to a point where I could knock out the notes without even looking at the screen.

For the full press release including the 9 exclusive tracks, be sure to hit the break.

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According to this Time Line that was supposed to be presented at the GDC last week, a slide revealing a little more than intended was discovered. Lego Rock Band may be making it’s debut after all. According to the Time Line, We should see LEGO Rock Band before “Beatles: 09/09/09″. This slide was among a batch that was sent for “speech approval” by Harmonix senior designer Dan Teasdale for his GDC presentation, “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Design Lessons Learned From Rock Band,” but never shown.

Traveller’s Tales is the studio responsible for recent Lego video games based on the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Batman franchises. EA currently handles distribution for the Rock Band series.

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