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Further demonstrating the increasing availability and decreasing price of memory, Target has put out a Speed Racer themed gift card that features a USB 2.0 Flash drive built right in.

The plastic promo gift card features a tiny USB cable (an inch long) that clicks flat into the card and can be ejected using a tiny mechanical switch at the bottom edge. It also has an activity light on the upper right edge of the card.

The internal Flash drive shows 62.8 MB total capacity with 51.6 MB of it filled with Speed Racer movie promotion items including a cheat code for the Wii version of the upcoming Speed Racer videogame…

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After guitar, karaoke, keyboard, drumming and even friggin’ bongo video games, you knew it was only a matter of time.

Harmonix (as well as MTV and EA), makers of Guitar Hero, will release Rock Band for the PS3 and Xbox 360 for the 2007 holiday season. The game will work with a Fender Stratocaster guitar, drum and microphone peripherals (no word on keyboards, though that is a PC game).

Rock Band will include licensed music grabbed from multi track masters provided by EMI, Sony/BMG, Universal, Hollywood Records, Rhino and Warner Chappell Music. Specific titles have not yet been released.

If it is taking after Guitar Hero‘s release model, we’ll see plenty of peripherals sold separately as well as pricey bundles. The nice thing about both systems is that they are USB friendly, so all of the devices will likely use USB ports (which should theoretically work with a PC as well).

Oh, and if the Rock Band site is any indication, it looks as if it might support two guitarists (a lead and bass guitar) along with a lead singer and drummer. Now if someone can hack the Nintendo bongo controllers to work with the game, you can get your island groove on, too.

Read [Gamespot] Game Site [Rock Band]