Beatles come alive - in video game avatar

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - Members of rock band U2 have revealed they are desperate to follow in the footsteps of other bands like The Beatles and Metallica and have their own video game. Bassist Adam Clayton admits he and his bandmates are impressed with the recently-released "The Beatles: Rock Band", which allows fans to play along to the Fab Four's greatest hits and they want a piece of the action themselves, reports tourdates.co.uk.

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, has been named the best rapper alive in a new poll by MTV. The Run This Town superstar pipped Lil Wayne and his protege Drake to land the top spot on the annual Hottest MCs in the Game countdown.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The Beatles have surpassed Jesus in terms of popularity on the Google search engine. An analysis of search terms showed more people searched for the band on Google than the son of God during September.

September 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Singer John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has praised the new Beatles video game for creating "a world of peace". The 76-year-old says that the new Beatles video game merges music and art to create amazing "healing vibrations".

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - Beatles' launch of their remastered albums and the video game The Beatles: Rock Band has apparently helped clear late singer Michael Jackson's debts. The King of Pop had bought the 250-song Beatles catalogue in 1985 for 47.5million dollars and now with the high selling of his own music and the relaunch of the Fab Four's sound, it is estimated that his estate will net more than 250million dollars by Christmas.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Late Beatle legend John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has revealed she barely knows the band's songs and only realised their music is "special" when she recently revisited their back catalogue. Avant-garde artist Ono met Lennon in 1966 at the height of the Fab Four's fame and was wed to the rock legend until his death in New York in 1980.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Disney Studios has announced that it will produce a 3-D remake of The Beatles' 1968 animation film Yellow Submarine. The movie will include 16 major hits of the group as well as recordings from the original animated film, the BBC News reports.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Sir Paul McCartney has said that the Beatles were planning to reunite before John Lennon was shot dead in 1980. The singer admitted that though they were set to receive huge offers yet they believed it wouldn't be as big as the 60's.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - Sir Paul McCartney has confessed that when the Beatles started making music, he thought they would only last "at best a couple of years". With the launch of the release of new Beatles computer game, The Beatles: Rock Band, the legendary musician has expressed his pride at the enduring popularity of the band.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - Sir Paul McCartney has confessed he is yet to try his hand at the computer game based on The Beatles. The Fab Four's bass player admitted the game 'The Beatles: Rock Band' looked like a tough challenge.

September 9th, 2009 September 9, 2009 is a marquee day for the Beatles fans worldwide as it marked the release of the digitally enhanced and remastered catalog of the 1960s rock n roll band the Beatles, whose popularity doesn't seem to wane a wee bit, on the contrary seems to be getting even more popular amongst the cell phone crazy generation just as it was during the 1960s. This exclusive catalog could turn out to be one of the most coveted part of one's music collection as all the classics including rock n roll anthems like "A Hard day's Night" and "Within You Without You" are present in their digitally enhanced avatars.

August 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has rubbished all criticism heaped on the Beatles Rock Band game, saying her late husband "would have loved it". Ono said the game would introduce the Beatles' music to a new generation of fans.

August 21st, 2009 'Avatar' trailer debuts online to mixed responseLOS ANGELES — Social networking sites are abuzz over an online trailer for "Avatar," a day before more than 15 minutes of James Cameron's anticipated 3D sci-fi adventure was to screen in theaters. Fan response to the two-minute version was mixed Thursday on sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

June 2nd, 2009 Remaining Beatles come together to promote gameLOS ANGELES — Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr came together to promote "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game. The two surviving Beatles, along with Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, appeared Monday at Microsoft's Electronic Entertainment Expo presentation at the University of Southern California's Galen Center.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Remaining Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr came together for the world's first public viewing of a karaoke-style game based on the group's music. The icons, along with late John Lennon's partner Yoko Ono and George Harrison's widow, Olivia, shared the stage during MTV and Harmonix's unfolding of the Beatles Rock Band.