Rock Band is launching in Europe on May 23rd as a timed exclusive for the Xbox 360, with the Wii and PS3 releases coming later in the summer, EA have announced today. The instrument pack will retail at £129.99, which comes with the drums, guitar, and microphone, but the game itself has to be purchased seperately, presumably at the going rate of £40.

That’s a grand total of £169.99, about £60 more than it is in the US – thanks EA!

As some small consolaion for the massive delay and stupidly high price, however, we do get some exclusive songs:

English

• “Beetlebum” by Blur
• “Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” by Oasis
• “Monsoon” by Tokio Hotel
• “Hysteria” by Muse

German

• “Hier Kommt Alex” by Die Toten Hosen
• “Perfekte Welle” by Juli
• “Countdown to Insanity” by H-Block X

French

• “Manu Chao” by Les Wampas
• “New Wave” by Playmo

Finally, there is a European press event happening today, so hopefully there’ll be some more news coming out of that. Looks like our invite was lost in the post, just to add insult to injury.

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