UK games site CVG just posted a nice little interview with Harmonix’s manager of communications and special projects, John Drake, about The Beatles: Rock Band. If you’ve been keeping up with the game you won’t find a whole lot of new Beatles news, but I found a couple parts of the interview particularly interesting.

The first is where he mentions that Big Boi from Outkast is apparently keen on getting the band in the game, though Drake is quick to clarify that “it’s not a band we have on our list, I’m not saying this is happening.”

And the second is this bit about people — especially artists — who bash on music games:

From my perspective, anything that gets kids interested in music and gets kids playing music in their house that isn’t an MP3 they stole off the internet, is a good thing. Anything that’s making money for music and making music relevant to kids again is a good thing. I think they think that we prefer people playing plastic guitars over real guitars, and that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Agreed.

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