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'Rock Band' to Feature Beatles Songs -- Take That, Steve Jobs!

by Terrence O'Brien on October 30, 2008 at 04:08 PM

'Rock Band' Scores Beatles Songs. Take that Steve Jobs!After years of negotiations, rumors, and quite probably begging, the Beatles catalog will finally be available for digital download -- but not on iTunes, and we're sure Steve Jobs is none too happy (despite numerous teaser announcements and rumors, the Beatles still aren't on Apple's online music store, or anywhere else online, for that matter).

So if not Apple with its iTunes Store, then who's the lucky distributor? Amazon? Napster? Actually, they've all been upstaged by 'Rock Band' makers Harmonix and MTV. That's right, a video game has succeeded where Apple's army of lawyers and messianic father figure couldn't.

MTV will have access to the entire back catalog of the biggest (and arguably best) band ever for the creation of a Beatles play-along game that will stand separate from its already established 'Rock Band' series. Details such as pricing, release date (all that's been announced is 2009), and exactly what songs will be included will have to wait for another day -- today's news was merely a victory lap.

Activision, Steve Jobs, you just got served. [From: Wall Street Journal]

Tags: apple, beatles, breaking news, BreakingNews, guitar hero, guitar-hero, GuitarHero, harmonix, itunes, mtv, music, music games, MusicGames, rock band, RockBand

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