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It's Official: Nearly 40 years after they called it quits and went their own ways, the Beatles are coming to a video-game console near you. Details of the deal are still sketchy, but the announcement that music-game developers Harmonix will release a title using the band's iconic songs was met with a great deal of press, and with good reason. The Beatles have been notoriously wary of commercializing their music and selling it in formats other than the traditional album. In 1987, the surviving members of the band filed a $15 million lawsuit in response to a Nike ad that featured the band's classic "Revolution," even though Nike had paid Capitol-EMI Records for the rights to use it.