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Devs recall ‘sweating bullets’ at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and ‘tough customer’ Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a ‘balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k’

The Beatles: Rock Band was the single greatest thing to come out of the games industry’s plastic instrument craze, an absurdly lavish and beautifully judged tribute to the most important music band in history. It cost me an absolute tonne but I still have an old 360 in the garage somewhere with all the DLC,…

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Devs recall ‘sweating bullets’ at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and ‘tough customer’ Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a ‘balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k’

The Beatles: Rock Band was the single greatest thing to come out of the games industry’s plastic instrument craze, an absurdly lavish and beautifully judged tribute to the most important music band in history. It cost me an absolute tonne but I still have an old 360 in the garage somewhere with all the DLC,…

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RuneScape details its plans to scrap its ‘Treasure Hunter’ microtransactions, rework combat, and dole out other ‘integrity-focused releases’ for its 25th anniversary

‘Integrity’ has been a very big word in the RuneScape sphere this past year—Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy used the word at least six times when justifying some of his bolder decisions in 2025. Among those were his declaration that Jagex would take a sledgehammer to the microtransactions that have “tainted” RuneScape 3, which sounds cool,…

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