Abbey Road now available for The Beatles Rock Band

Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix have released Abbey Road for The Beatles: Rock Band - the first Beatles album available for purchase as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store. You can find out more about the contents of the package by reading this story from yesterday.

More Beatles albums that have been announced as upcoming downloadable content include Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) in November and Rubber Soul (1965) in December. The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content will be available for purchase on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360, PlayStation Network and via the in-game The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store for Wii.
The album is available today on Xbox 360 and Wii, and will be released Oct. 22 on PS3.

It came from retail: what’s in stores this week

Tuesday is release day and there are plenty of new games to choose from including shooters, games based on movies heavy weight sports titles, games for girls,  games about apocalyptic wastelands, ports of games that should have sold better than they did,  games  involving dudes in spandex and more.

Come and take a tour of this week’s best and worst  releases after the break - you probably won’t regret it, but if you do i’ll give you a refund (let’s see, 0 - 0 = ?).

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The Beatles Rock Band soon gets Abbey Road album

Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix announced Abbey Road (1969) as the first Beatles album to be available for purchase and playable as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store. This download will give players access to all the songs on the album - some were released when the game went live earlier this year including With Come Together, Something, Octopus’s Garden, I Want You (She’s So Heavy), Here Comes The Sun and The End.

Available for Xbox 360 (Oct. 20) and PlayStation 3 System (Oct. 22): The Complete The Album Pack features the singles Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, and Because; a B-side 16 minute medley that includes: You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight and The End; and songs that can be played as 1-to-3-song sets based on how they were recorded / composed (You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam/ She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End and Her Majesty. The Complete Album will be available for $16.99 USD, £10.46 UK, €11.37 EU (1360 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360).

available for Wii on Oct. 20 are individual Abbey Road singles: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, Because, You Never Give Me Your Money, and Her Majesty
Each will be priced at $2.00 USD (200 Wii Points) per each individual track. Her Majesty will costs $1.00 USD (100 Wii Points). Multi-Track sets including
Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, and Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End are also available at
$3.50 USD (350 Wii Points) per 2-Pack.

Additional Beatles albums that have been announced as upcoming downloadable content include Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) in November and Rubber Soul (1965) in December. The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content will be available for purchase on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360, PlayStation Network and via the in-game The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store for Wii.

Three Beatles albums for The Beatles Rock Band by year’s end

Speaking at Gamescom 2009 this week, Alex Rigopulos, CEO and co-founder of Harmonix, confirmed release details for the three Beatles albums that will be available for purchase as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store by the end of this year. Abbey Road will be released on October 20, 2009, followed by the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in November and Rubber Soul in December.

Rigopulos also revealed that tracks from Queen, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Elton John, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, Pantera, Talking Heads, Korn, The Raconteurs and more will be among the artists coming to the various offerings across the Rock Band platform.

Details for downloadable albums coming to The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store are follow after the break:

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