MTV Announces Rock Band-Like Beatles Video Game – Eflux Media

MTV Announces Rock Band-Like Beatles Video Game – Eflux Media
“Rock Band” creators MTV Games and Harmonix jointly announced they’ve worked out a deal with Apple Corps, owner of The Beatles music rights, to develop a yet-untitled video game based on the group’s decade-long history as a band. As announced during

Beatles music to be in new video game – Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
In this Feb. 9, 1964 file photo, The Beatles perform on the CBS “Ed Sullivan Show” in New York. (AP Photo, file) NEW YORK – The Beatles are coming to a game console near you. For the first time, the legendary group’s music will be featured in the

MTV strikes deal to use Beatles songs in video game – The Independent
MTV Networks announced on Thursday a deal to use songs by The Beatles in a custom video game similar to its popular “Rock Band” video, marking the groundbreaking band’s first major plunge into digital music. There is no set release date or sale price

MTV strikes deal to use Beatles songs in video game – Guardian Unlimited

MTV strikes deal to use Beatles songs in video game – Guardian Unlimited
NEW YORK, Oct 30 (Reuters) – MTV Networks announced on Thursday a deal to use songs by The Beatles in a custom video game similar to its popular “Rock Band” video, marking the groundbreaking band’s first major plunge into digital music. There is no

Beatles songs used in video game – BBC News
The band’s music will appear in an untitled game by creators of the Rock Band series, MTV Games and Harmonix. The game, which was produced with input from Beatles stars Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, is due to be released sometime next year

Harmonix will work on Beatles Rock Band game – Boston Globe
Harmonix Music Systems, the Cambridge company that created Rock Band , will be part of a group developing a new interactive music video game based on the music of the Beatles, a legendary rock group of the 1960s. Until now, the Beatles have resisted

Beatles music in new video game – MSN UK News
The Beatles’ music is set to be incorporated into a “groundbreaking” interactive video game, it was announced today. The game was conceived with input from Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison. “The project is a

The Beatles to be in new video game – International Herald Tribune
For the first time, the legendary group’s music will be featured in the lucrative video game market in a deal with MTV Games and Harmonix, creators of the “Rock Band” series. The game is scheduled to debut sometime next year. In a statement Thursday

Jaguars-Bengals Preview – ESPN.com

Jaguars-Bengals Preview – ESPN.com
The Jacksonville Jaguars have endured a disappointing first half to the season, but back-to-back games against teams that are currently winless could help put them back on the right track. The Jaguars look to win their fifth straight against the

Hundreds mourn fire victims – Detroit News

Hundreds mourn fire victims – Detroit News
HIGHLAND PARK — The caskets, four total, were arranged end to end, and on some of them lay childhood trinkets: a lollipop, an NBA video game, a WWE Smack Down championship belt. More than 700 mourners gathered Monday morning to remember those who

Majoring in video games – Los Angeles Times
The Thukrals wanted their son, Dhruv, to go into nanotechnology. So when he told them he’d rather be a video game developer he might as well have said he wanted to join the circus. “Are you serious?” they asked. He was. The 21-year-old USC graduate

Happy Halloween, gamers: a roundup of video-game reviews – Seattle Times
Astronauts trapped on alien-infested space ships, Dracula rising from the dead, knife-wielding zombie nurses in tightfitting dresses, and presidential hopefuls taking off their gloves. Halloween must be right around the corner. Computer and video

Think you know the gamer type? – Ottawa Citizen
People who play video games have better family lives, are more social and make more money than people who do not, according to two new studies. The Canadian and American studies dispel stereotypes surrounding gamers — largely that they are solitary

UPDATE 1-Sony delays PS3 video game over offensive music – Reuters
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Sony Corp (6758.T: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) has delayed sales of “LittleBigPlanet,” one of its most widely anticipated video games, by at least one week in the United States after finding potentially

Nintendo game guru expands creative limits – San Francisco Gate

Nintendo game guru expands creative limits – San Francisco Gate
Shigeru Miyamoto, 55, has often been described as the Walt Disney of video games. Formerly Nintendo’s first staff artist, now its senior managing director, Miyamoto has been responsible for some of the most beloved games in history, including Donkey

Gallery: Top 10 controversial games – News.com.au
Death Race (1976) the first video game to stir up controversy was Exidy’s Death Race (inset), a cult classic black-and-white arcade game in which the player had to run down “gremlins”, which looked like stick men. Upon being hit the creatures

THQ Brings Spirit to Wii(TM) and Nintendo DS(TM) with the Launch of – MSN MoneyCentral
THQ Inc. THQI today announced the company ’ s first-ever cheerleading video game, All Star Cheer Squad ™ , has shipped to retail stores throughout North America exclusively for Wii ™ . The game is also scheduled to be available for Nintendo DS

Majoring in video games – Los Angeles Times
The Thukrals wanted their son, Dhruv, to go into nanotechnology. So when he told them he’d rather be a video game developer he might as well have said he wanted to join the circus. “Are you serious?” they asked. He was. The 21-year-old USC graduate

Xbox 360 Resource Center – Gamespot News
The Xbox 360 is a video game and entertainment console system manufactured by Microsoft. It can play Xbox 360 video games, DVD movies, audio CDs, and video and game content downloaded from the Xbox Live online service. Console owners can view photos

World Cup rugby league opener sees Australia beat New Zealand – News.com.au

World Cup rugby league opener sees Australia beat New Zealand – News.com.au
AUSTRALIA look too physically imposing, too fast and too skilful for their main Centenary World Cup rugby league rivals New Zealand and England. That was the only possible conclusion following the Kangaroos’ 30-6 thumping of New Zealand at the Sydney

Retirees file class-action suit vs. union for video-game royalties – ESPN.com
SAN FRANCISCO — Fans of the popular “Madden NFL” video game by Electronic Arts Inc. can play vintage matchups such as the 1967 Green Bay Packers against the 1971 Dallas Cowboys . Just don’t look for either team’s dominant left cornerback: Hall of

Santonio Holmes Sent Home After Drug Citation, Will Miss Giants Game – MSNBC
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes will be sidelined for Sunday’s game against the New York Giants after he was cited on suspicion of marijuana possession. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said on Friday that Holmes will be

Longtime game show host Jack Narz dies at 85 – Newsday

Longtime game show host Jack Narz dies at 85 – Newsday
LOS ANGELES – Jack Narz, a longtime game show host who was an early victim of the quiz show scandals of the 1950s when a show he was hosting was canceled, has died. He was 85. Narz died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from complications of a

US space tourist Richard Garriott returns to earth – News.com.au
A RUSSIAN Soyuz capsule carrying US space tourist Richard Garriott and a Russian crew bumped down safely in Kazakhstan today. “We just touched down. I feel great. I feel very good. Re-entry was perfectly smooth,” a smiling Mr Garriott said as he

Fort Dix terror jurors view video of suspects’ war games – Trentonian

Fort Dix terror jurors view video of suspects’ war games – Trentonian
CAMDEN — The video that spurred the investigation of five men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers on New Jersey’s Fort Dix shows some of them in camouflage clothing, firing rapid-fire weapons on a snowy driving range. An investigator who

Obama will be the first candidate to advertise in video games – Chicago Sun-Times
Sen. Barack Obama is taking his presidential campaign somewhere no political campaign has gone before — to video games. The Obama camp has bought “billboard space” within nine video games, all from Electronic Arts: “Madden ’09,” “NBA

Obama Ads Invade Video Games – FOX News
A screen grab of a Barack Obama billboard in the Xbox Live version of ‘Burnout Paradise.’ The Barack Obama presidential campaign is EVERYWHERE. Drivers of high-performance racing cars were a bit surprised over the weekend to spot roadside billboards

‘NBA 2K9′ a good video game but has severe problems – Dallas Morning News

‘NBA 2K9′ a good video game but has severe problems – Dallas Morning News
LACE ‘EM UP : The NBA is one of the few remaining professional sports that hasn’t been monopolized by Electronic Arts (seen any non-Madden NFL video games lately?), and so I want NBA 2K9 to do well. Competition, and all that. And 2K9 is a good game

News – Gaming and Culture – CNET News
SAN FRANCISCO–At a press event at LucasArts’ headquarters in the Presidio here Tuesday afternoon, LucasArts and BioWare unveiled Star Wars: The Old Republic , a new massively multiplayer online game. The game is set about 350 years after the popular

Majesco Entertainment and Interactive Game Group Ship ‘Jillian – TMCnet
Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced that Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for Wii(TM) has shipped to retail outlets nationwide. Taking the concept of fitness

New ‘Star Wars’ online game is 4-millennium rewind – San Francisco Gate
“Star Wars” is hyperspeeding to an even longer time ago. The next chapter in George Lucas’ ever-expanding franchise will be “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” a massively multiplayer online game set thousands of years before Darth Vader was born. The

Will viewers tune into World Series matchup? – CBS Sportsline

Will viewers tune into World Series matchup? – CBS Sportsline
NEW YORK (AP) -First the Super Bowl, then the Stanley Cup finals, and the NBA finals, too. The three championships played so far in the major team sports have drawn higher television ratings this year than in 2007. Maybe that’s a reversal of a trend