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.
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411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Little King's Story, Katamari Damacy Tribute, Shatter, and Wii Sports Resort.
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MTV Games and Harmonix have unveiled 15 more of the 45 on-disc tracks for The Beatles: Rock Band. This brings to 25 the number of announced tracks for the upcoming rhythm game with the publisher promising to reveal the additional on-disc songs at a later date.

The tracks include favourites such as 'Can't Buy me Love,' 'With a Little Help from My Friends' and 'Yellow Submarine.' Watch the gameplay trailer below to see 8 of the 15 new tracks in action.
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Destructoid writes: "While at MTV yesterday to see a near-final build of The Beatles: Rock Band, I asked Harmonix PR guru John Drake to elaborate on something I'd heard from community manager Sean Baptiste during E3. According to Baptiste, the final movie for the game's story mode is just as mind-blowing as the opening cinematic that premiered at E3. He went as far as to say, "If you don't cry when you see it, you don't have a soul," calling the entire experience of The Beatles: Rock Band "the Brian's Song of videogames."

Drake agreed with that sentiment ("It is the Brian's Song of videogames! That's well said!"), noting that the end sequence was put together by Passion Pictures, the same production house that created the intro movie. He wouldn't show it to me, but to be honest, I didn't ask, and I would've declined if he had offered; I'd like to see it for the first time in-game. Instead, he told me that the movie "riffs off the beginning and takes it to a different level, and just is ... the best way to end a game I've ever seen." Boy, they sure know how to hype their stuff, don't they?"
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JB Hi-Fi have released their initial pricing for The Beatles: Rock Band via their website.

The Bundle will be priced at AUD $349 on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii at JB Hi-Fi. The stand alone disc will set you back $79 on the Xbox 360 and PS3 and $69 on the Wii. Once again these are JB's prices which are generally lower than the RRP on launch.
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Over the next couple years, the remaining estate of Michael Jackson will be evaluated by creditors and eventually sold or auctioned off to the highest bidder. This includes a 50% stake in Sony/ATV Music, a company that owns the publishing rights to the majority of the Beatles music catalog.

So what does this mean for the upcoming Beatles Rock Band game should ownership switch hands?
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PS3-News.co.uk Writes: The legends, The Beatles, are helping closely with the new Rock Band The Beatles game. The remaining Beatles and wives of the ones passed away are advising on the new Rock Band game. Paul, Ringo, Olivia and Yoko are all helping make the game better and have been described by lead...
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While the full Beatles Rockband game which will include 45 master tracks doesn't come out until September 9th. We've got word from an unknown source that 3 more songs will make the list from the following ten already announced.
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A Harmonix spokesperson has confirmed that this leaked list of songs is definitely not the track list for The Beatles: Rock Band. That's not to say that some of the songs won't appear on the disc.
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Well, it was pretty obvious "Hey Jude" wasn't going to make it into the game, but you'll be pleasantly surprised as to what did.. Get excited!
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