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 lucrative video-game market in a deal with MTV Games and Harmonix, creators of the “Rock Band” series. The game is scheduled to make its debut in time for next year’s holiday season.
The game will not be titled “Rock Band” but will work with the existing instruments — guitar, drums and microphone — and developers plan to introduce a keyboard, which would be a first in the music-game market.
“That is the plan,” said Marty Bandier, chief executive of Sony/ATV, a joint venture between Sony Corp. and trusts benefiting Michael Jackson, which owns the copyright on Beatles songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The game will feature a sampling of music and imagery from throughout the band’s career, from “Please Please Me” (1963) through “Let It Be” (1970). The Associated Press; AP file photo
