At the Spike Video Game Awards on Sunday night, the video game developer Harmonix announced that it plans to release a new "Rock Band" video game dedicated to the career of punk/alternative band Green Day.

"We've worked with the 'Rock Band' team in the past year to enable our fans to play tracks from '21st Century Breakdown,' and we're excited to now be working on a game, spanning our entire career," the band's frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a statement. "We want people to fire this up, choose their favorite Green Day tracks, and play along with us as 'Rock Band' avatars so they can feel what it's like to perform on stage as Green Day."

The game is expected to be released sometime in 2010.