Rock Band Gets a UK Release Date

May 23rd 2008. This is the good news. The bad news? Are you sitting down? You have to buy the actual game software seperate from all the instruments, although the instruments (guitar, microphone and drum-kit) are available together in their own 'Instrument Edition'. The actual game will be around the £40 mark, whereas the 'Instrument Edition' will cost a whopping £129.99. For those of you with a cacklulator, that's £170. Which is US$340. Consider this: in the USA, this game cost a mere $150 and that's with the game included.

The fact that we're getting exclusive tracks is completely beside the point (and not only because they're not that exclusive). Held to ransom? Not so much. Bent over a barrel and taken roughly? Yep.

Also, it's a timed Xbox 360 exclusive, so the PS3 and Wii owning Rock Band wannabes are getting an even harsher deal.

For shame, EA.