Twist and Shout!! The Beatles: Rock Band is Coming Soon!!

Harmonix and Apple co. (Beatles record company) announced today their plans to release the Rock Band game based on The Beatles which was announced a few months ago

The game called The Beatles: Rock Band will release on September 9, 2009 on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii. Not much was said about the game but it will work with old Rock Band or other accessories compatible with Rock Band and pricing was also announced. The game will sell standalone for $60. It will also have a game and guitar bundle for $100 and a full band bundle for a very expensive $250. The instruments are apparently limited edition and modeled after the actual instruments used by the band. More information will be coming over the next few months so stay tuned.




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Guitar Hero's Greatest Hits Coming Back This Year

Activision announced this week that a new Guitar Hero title called Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits is in the works and will be released this year. The game will take the best songs from previous Guitar Hero games that only used guitar and update them to work with the full band. The game will release on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and Playstation 2. Release date and price will be announced at a later date.

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Microsoft Starts Off E3 with A Bang!?!?!?!

Today, Microsoft held its E3 press conference in Los Angeles. Here are all of the major things announced today:

• Fallout 3 will have exclusive DLC for Xbox 360 and Games for Windows
• Resident Evil 5 will have online co-op and will be released on Friday March 13, 2009 worldwide for Xbox 360 and PS3
• Fable II is done and will be released this October
• Gears of War 2 will be released on November 7 and will feature 5 player co-op mode
  
• NEW XBOX EXPERIENCE (a.k.a the fall update)
• Will feature completely redesigned interface
• Avatars with thousands of clothing hair and other options
• Live Party System will let up to 8 players stick together and share the same experience on Xbox Live and share photos, movies and play games together
  
• Xbox Live Primetime is a new category of games meant for party system
• 1 vs. 100 (massively multiplayer game show) and Uno Rush will be first Primetime games
• Allows you to stream Netflix movies from Xbox 360 (Netflix account required)
• Best Xbox Live Arcade game lineup ever
• Geometry Wars 2 coming next month will feature 4 player co-op
• Galaga Legions: the true sequel to Galaga coming next month
• Portal: Still Alive with new challenges coming exclusively this fall to Xbox Live Arcade
• Original Banjo Kazooie coming to Xbox Live Arcade
  
• South Park game also coming to Xbox Live Arcade in 2009
• Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts confirmed for release this holiday
  
• Scene It! Box Office Smash announed. Using avatars and coming this fall
• You're In the Movies will use the Vision camera to help put your family and friends into tiny movies (works like eyetoy). Developed by Codemasters and coming this fall with bundled vision camera
• New Metalica album will be on Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero: World Tour the day it releases
• Guitar Hero: World Tour will have 80 tracks on disc
• Microsoft reveals Lips. Karioke game created by Inis (made Elete Beat Agents) where you can put music from an iPod or Zune into the game. Coming this fall with wireless microphones with motion sensing
• Rock Band 2 will feature 84 songs on disc and Rock Band will have 500 playable songs by the end of the year
• Infinite Undiscovery will release this fall
• The Last Remnant will release this fall on Xbox 360 and Games for Windows
• Star Ocean will release Spring 2009
• Final Fantasy XIII will be releasing on Xbox 360

Stay tuned to Gamerscast all week for updates

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New Guitar Hero: World Tour Info!!!

With the release of Guitar Hero: On Tour, the first portable Guitar Hero game for Nintendo DS next week and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the first Guitar Hero game to focus on one specific band hitting consoles in two weeks, many are wondering what is next for the franchise.  The next game in the franchise called Guitar Hero: World Tour will completely reinvent the franchise.  It will expand to drums and a microphone and "copy" and improve the award winning social experience from Rock Band.  Even if you have not heard of this game until now, the following information below should give you a good idea of what the game will be like.

The new and improved drum kit shown above will have three pads and two cymbols and a pedal.  The Guitar Hero drum kit will be quieter and will have bigger and more bouncier pads (better for drum rolls) than the Rock Band drums.  And did I mention that it is also wireless!!  Because this is made by Neversoft and not Harmonix, the Rock Band drums will NOT be compatible and vice versa.  Also to activate star power with drums you just hit both cymbols at the same time.  All of the Wii instruments including the drums will make you put your Wii remote inside the instruments.

The new guitar will work just like the other great guitars only with a few differences.  Notice the touch pad on the neck.  That will allow you to tap out notes during crazy solos or you can move your finger up and down on it during sustained notes for a different sound.  There is also an accelerometer in it allowing the guitar to know how high you are raising it.  On the left of the strummer is the start and select buttons as well as a big star power button in the middle for those who felt they are too good to raise the guitar.  It will be the best guitar controller yet.  The Xbox 360 Guitar Hero guitars the X-plorer or the Les Paul will work with World Tour.  No word yet on if the PS3, Wii or PS2 guitars will work.

The microphone will be a standard wired microphone.  To activate star power with it you just tap the microphone.  No word yet on if the Rock Band mic, a headset or any other usb mic will work with the game.

The game will also feature character and instrument customization, a world tour mode that can be played online and off, a new difficulty called beginner for beginners who can't even play easy, A career mode for each instrument, DLC on a regular basis including full albums (existing DLC from Guitar Hero III will work with this game!), an eight player battle of the bands mode, and a very in depth music creator that will let you create your own music using the guitar's touch pad, buttons and accelerometer for guitar, bass and drums and you will be able to publish it online for others to download and rate.  The Wii version will have DLC and the ability to share  and play created music.  The will come out this fall for Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 and PS2 at a price competitive to the price of Rock Band.  

Also Rock Band will be available next week for Wii.  Wii owners should pick this up while they wait for Guitar Hero: World Tour.

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